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In the temperate zones paragraph why is Great Britain included in the list when it is already covered under Europe?

Athosfolk (talk) 16:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

The phrase "[t]he idea of a geographical zone was first hypothesized by the ancient Greek scholar Aristotle" is wrong. As Strabo (63 BC to 23 CE) reports (Strab. 2,2,1-2):

"Indeed Posidonius says that (125, 15) Parmenides was the originator of the division into fi ve zones, but that he declares that the torrid [zone] is about double its real breadth, making the [zone] between the tropics extend beyond both tropics and into the temperate [zones]. Aristotle calls it (i.e., the torrid zone) [the zone] between the tropics and [he calls the zones] (125, 20) between the tropics and the arctic [circles] temperate. But he (i.e., Posidonius) justly objects to both men, for it is [the zone] that is uninhabitable on account of heat that is called torrid, whereas more than half of the breadth of [the region] between the tropics is inhabitable." [Ed. Edelstein & Kidd]^[1]

Parmenides was a pre-Socratic philosopher from Elea. I will modify the article accordingly.

Ursus Maior (talk) 14:14, 23 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

I wonder if there has been conversations or thoughts about getting a map marking the latitude lines? Cheers, Caballero/Historiador (talk) 22:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Perhaps, like this one:

Caballero/Historiador (talk) 23:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Areas calculated in the WGS84 ellipsoid: The North frigid zone using 66°33’47.4”N to 90°N is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 4.16% of Earth's surface. The North temperate zone using 23°26’12.6”N to 66°33’47.4”N is 132,771,934.867813 km² or (51,263,530.646320 sq mi). 26.03% of Earth's surface. The Torrid zone using 23°26’12.6”N to 23°26’12.6”S is 202,108,282.521489 km² (78,034,444.140853 sq mi). 39.62% of Earth's surface. The South temperate zone using 23°26’12.6”S to 66°33’47.4”S is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 26.03% of Earth's surface. The South frigid zone using 66°33’47.4”S to 90°S is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 4.16% of Earth's surface. Earth 510,065,621.724089 km² (196,937,437.545965 sq mi). Used Charles Karney's Online geodesic polygon calculations using the Planimeter utility https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/Planimeter "Planimeter (version 1.49) calculates the perimeter and area of a polygon whose edges are either geodesics or rhumb lines on the WGS84 ellipsoid." "The result for the area is accurate to about 0.1 m2 per vertex."Sulasgeir (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply