The method of determining latitude in the Northern Hemisphere by measuring the angle between an observer's line of site to the North Star and line of site to the northern horizon was developed by ________

A) Pytheas
B) Eratosthenes
C) Herodotus
D) Seneca
E) Ptolemy


A

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