American Reacts Why Britain is the Center of the World 

Terrible thing, an inferiority complex

Tbh, I think he's a few crumbs short of a biscuit!

Not only the Brits 😂

And the ridiculous, random, irrelevant comment about 'white men' (of which he is one of). Don't get it.

@@B-A-L more then a few 🤣 more like the whole thing

Yes, thank you. The video seems to just suggest Britain was gifted this by other nations, instead of it being the clearly the most logical choice based on existing custom and the marine chronometer invented by John Harrison.

That sounds more like it

From Yorkshire not London

Wakefield West Yorkshire. But buried in Hampstead, London.

@@jonathansherriff6254 Sorry my mistake

John Harris was a Yorkshireman, not a Londoner. 😡

This! This! This is what I was always taught as to why Greenwich was the centre of the world. And seeing as everyone already mentioned the "John Harrison of *London*" thing, I won't. But uhm, I still want to.

It's wonder Al Murray didn't try to convince us that the equator also runs through London.

Technically longitude was always there. Harrison just perfected the means by which it could be measured when travelling at sea.

@@Sorarse cheers I know. He made it a lot more accurate after winning the competition set by the Admiralty ( I think).

@@Sorarse Ugh... You could say that about anything, not reality though, is it.

@@JasonLaneZardoz Well the OP agreed with me so I'm not sure what your point is.. Are you saying that sailors weren't navigating using longitude even though they couldn't measure it accurately before Harrison came up with his H4? In which case what was the Longitude Act all about which offered the prize that Harrison was eventually able to claim for solving the difficulty of measuring longitude at sea?

@@Sorarse It was about the maritime chronometers dummy, the maths was prior art. No they couldn't measure it accurately at sea, that was the point. I couldn't care less if the OP agrees with you or not.

😅and Evolution.

And jaffa cakes and yorkshire puddings too!

and trains

@@prussianbluesky I was going to say trains but thought it was too obvious lol

@@B-A-L 😄

White men in a room , how awful

Does it ñot have the sun as a factor...,....,.,.

Half the story

@@JasonLaneZardoz Ok, I'll take that on the chin. You have to be selective for brevity. Which important points did I miss out?

I feel like I learnt more reading this than watching the video

That's where they made the "lucky" mistake in "80 days around the world"

No chocolate bars either, especially ones that don't taste like sick!

No James Corden! (we've already apologised R.O.W.)

No having to remember if the clocks go back or forth in spring and autumn.

That was the primary reason for standardising time zones.

This is the point (paraphrase) 😁

Sounds like an Al Murray comment to me.

DIN is excellent. Fold up a DINA4 page 2 times and you'll end with A6, the standard dimension of a German toilet roll.

And non white racism is never talked about, even today, funny that isn't it🤔

The British, John Harrison developed the maritime chronomiters needed, those other nations, did not.

@@JasonLaneZardoz Yeah after huygens invented the pendulum clock and watch . Dont be daft and getg a history book . And to quote english historians , what the britisch are famous for the dutch did it first. Here some proof of who created what first . Dutch inventions inovations just a few of them . Measurement Pendulum clock (first high-precision clock) (1656) The first accurate mechanical clock. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use. Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens, built by instrument maker Salomon Coster (1657), and manuscript Horologium Oscillatorium The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism with a foliot or balance wheel timekeeper, were invented in Europe at around the start of the 14th century, and became the standard timekeeping device until the pendulum clock was invented in 1656. The pendulum clock remained the most accurate timekeeper until the 1930s, when quartz oscillators were invented, followed by atomic clocks after World War 2.[162] A pendulum clock uses a pendulum's arc to mark intervals of time. From their invention until about 1930, the most accurate clocks were pendulum clocks. Pendulum clocks cannot operate on vehicles or ships at sea, because the accelerations disrupt the pendulum's motion, causing inaccuracies. The pendulum clock was invented by Christiaan Huygens, based on the pendulum introduced by Galileo Galilei. Although Galileo studied the pendulum as early as 1582, he never actually constructed a clock based on that design. Christiaan Huygens invented pendulum clock in 1656 and patented the following year. He contracted the construction of his clock designs to clockmaker Salomon Coster, who actually built the clock. Spiral-hairspring watch (1675) Drawing of one of his first balance springs, attached to a balance wheel, by Christiaan Huygens, published in his letter in the Journal des Sçavants of 25 February 1675. A mechanical watch movement. From its invention in 1675 by Christiaan Huygens, the spiral hairspring (balance spring) system for portable timekeepers, still used in mechanical watchmaking industry today. The invention of the mainspring in the early 15th century allowed portable clocks to be built, evolving into the first pocketwatches by the 17th century, but these were not very accurate until the balance spring was added to the balance wheel in the mid-17th century. Some dispute remains as to whether British scientist Robert Hooke (his was a straight spring) or Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens was the actual inventor of the balance spring. This innovation increased watches' accuracy enormously, reducing error from perhaps several hours per day[165] to perhaps 10 minutes per day,[166] resulting in the addition of the minute hand to the face from around 1680 in Britain and 1700 in France. Cartography and geography Method for determining longitude using a clock (1530) The Dutch-Frisian geographer Gemma Frisius was the first to propose the use of a chronometer to determine longitude in 1530. In his book On the Principles of Astronomy and Cosmography (1530), Frisius explains for the first time how to use a very accurate clock to determine longitude.[27] The problem was that in Frisius’ day, no clock was sufficiently precise to use his method. In 1761, the British clock-builder John Harrison constructed the first marine chronometer, which allowed the method developed by Frisius. Triangulation and the systematic use of triangulation networks (1533 and 1615) Triangulation had first emerged as a map-making method in the mid-sixteenth century when the Dutch-Frisian mathematician Gemma Frisius set out the idea in his Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione (Booklet concerning a way of describing places).[28][29][30][31][32][33] Dutch cartographer Jacob van Deventer was among the first to make systematic use of triangulation, the technique whose theory was described by Gemma Frisius in his 1533 book. The modern systematic use of triangulation networks stems from the work of the Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snell (born Willebrord Snel van Royen), who in 1615 surveyed the distance from Alkmaar to Bergen op Zoom, approximately 70 miles (110 kilometres), using a chain of quadrangles containing 33 triangles in all[34][35][36] - a feat celebrated in the title of his book Eratosthenes Batavus (The Dutch Eratosthenes), published in 1617. Mercator projection (1569) The 1569 Mercator map of the world (Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata). The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments which conserve the angles with the meridians.[37] First modern world atlas (1570) World map Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius (1570). Flemish geographer and cartographer Abraham Ortelius generally recognized as the creator of the world's first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is considered the first true atlas in the modern sense: a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved. It is sometimes referred to as the summary of sixteenth-century cartography.[38][39][40][41] First printed atlas of nautical charts (1584) The first printed atlas of nautical charts (De Spieghel der Zeevaerdt or The Mirror of Navigation / The Mariner's Mirror) was produced by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer in Leiden. This atlas was the first attempt to systematically codify nautical maps. This chart-book combined an atlas of nautical charts and sailing directions with instructions for navigation on the western and north-western coastal waters of Europe. It was the first of its kind in the history of maritime cartography, and was an immediate success. The English translation of Waghenaer's work was published in 1588 and became so popular that any volume of sea charts soon became known as a "waggoner", the Anglicized form of Waghenaer's surname.[42][43][44][45][46][47][48] Concept of atlas (1595) Blaeu's world map, originally prepared by Joan Blaeu for his Atlas Maior, published in the first book of the Atlas Van Loon (1664). Gerardus Mercator was the first to coin the word atlas to describe a bound collection of maps through his own collection entitled "Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra". He coined this name after the Greek god who held The Sky up, later changed to holding up The Earth.[41][49] Charting of the far southern skies (southern constellations) (1595-97) The constellations around the South Pole were not observable from north of the equator, by Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese or Arabs. The modern constellations in this region were defined during the Age of Exploration, notably by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman at the end of sixteenth century. These twelve Dutch-created southern constellations represented flora and fauna of the East Indies and Madagascar. They were depicted by Johann Bayer in his star atlas Uranometria of 1603.[50] Several more were created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in his star catalogue, published in 1756.[51] By the end of the Ming dynasty, Xu Guangqi introduced 23 asterisms of the southern sky based on the knowledge of western star charts.[52] These asterisms have since been incorporated into the traditional Chinese star maps. Among the IAU's 88 modern constellations, there are 15 Dutch-created constellations (including Apus, Camelopardalis, Chamaeleon, Columba, Dorado, Grus, Hydrus, Indus, Monoceros, Musca, Pavo, Phoenix, Triangulum Australe, Tucana and Volans). Now go back and learn some history before making stupid claims . Like cook discovered australia yeah it was already mapped 200 years earlier .