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Something that most tourists don’t know about Copenhagen’s round tower is that besides it being the perfect place to see what a toilet looked like in the 1600s, there’s a super important glass plate laid over its hollow core near the top of the tower. Go stand there, and you’ll be looking down at the geodesic midpoint of Denmark. The geo-what what what? You already know what a geodesic midpoint is, but you likely call it the Prime Meridian, the Greenwich Meridian, or zero degrees longitude. In the 1600s, there was no global consensus for mapmaking. So in Denmark, the centerpoint of scientific study was Copenhagen and specifically at the library housed in the round tower - therefore the great minds who met there used it as the midpoint of the kingdom and the world until the international standard was set in the 19th century. Today, all signs showing a distance to the capital still use the Round Tower’s centre to mark the distance. So now you know…
