Longitude

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Longitude

Summary

Longitude is a written work[1]. Longitude ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Longitude authored Dava Sobel[3].
  • Longitude's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • Longitude's genre is recorded as essay[5].
  • Longitude's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Longitude's publication date is recorded as +1995-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • Longitude's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04t4zds[8].
  • Longitude's Open Library ID is recorded as OL265465W[9].
  • Longitude's has edition or translation is recorded as Longitude[10].
  • Longitude's has edition or translation is recorded as Longitude[11].
  • Longitude's has edition or translation is recorded as Longitude[12].
  • Longitude's main subject is recorded as history of science[13].
  • Longitude's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 16307[14].
  • Longitude's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 102630[15].
  • Longitude's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Longitude'}[16].
  • Longitude's BBC Things ID is recorded as 0ab7535b-359f-4987-874c-9411bc05973d[17].
  • Longitude's OCLC work ID is recorded as 16158085[18].
  • Longitude's K10plus PPN ID is recorded as 1611622107[19].
  • Longitude's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 1755348[20].
  • Longitude's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 170021[21].

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Designation and Status

Longitude's instance of is recorded as written work[4].

Why It Matters

Longitude ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[2] Longitude has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Longitude. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/longitude-q958731
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_longitude-q958731_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Longitude}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/longitude-q958731}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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