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Roslin/ Roseline
Rose Line is a name given to the Paris Meridian in the Priory of Sion mythology and popularized by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the same name Rose Line is used for the Paris Meridian in both contexts, it also involves different definitions.
A 1967 Priory of Sion document Au Pays de la Reine Blanche states that Rennes-les-Bains is located precisely on the Zero Meridian, which connects Saint-Sulpice in Paris adding that the parish of Rennes-les-Bains guards the heart of Roseline, being a reference to Saint Roseline de Villeneuve. Au Pays de la Reine Blanche also referred to the line of the Zero Meridian, that is to say the red line, in English: 'Rose-line'. Later in 1978, Pierre Plantard also referred to the red line of the meridian, the 'Rose-Line'...since Roseline, the Abbess of the 'Celle aux Arcs', celebrates her feast day on 17 January.
The term Rose Line has been popularized by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code as an alternate name for 'the world's first prime meridian', identified as the Paris Meridian. Brown's novel also conflates this meridian with a gnomon in the Parisian church of Saint-Sulpice marked in the floor with a brass line, as did the 1967 Priory Document Le Serpent Rouge - Notes sur Saint-Germain-des-Prs et Saint-Sulpice de Paris attributed to Pierre Feugre, Louis Saint-Maxent and Gaston de Koker, which called the Rose Line the 'Red Serpent'. The Paris Meridian actually passes about 100 meters east of the gnomon, which according to author Sharan Newman and a sign in the church was 'never called a Rose-Line'. A St Sulpice booklet dating from 2000, in the page about the history of the gnomon describes the brass line as 'meridian' it does not use the term Roseline or Rose Line.
gloggergurl added this comment 2009-03-19 12:17:28-05:00
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gloggergurl added this comment 2009-03-19 12:17:28-05:00
This is a neat glog! I like history and factual info :D Plus, your glog is pretty!