👉 Latinity, also known as latitude, is a measure of the angle subtended by an arc on the surface of a sphere at the center of the earth. It is often used in cartography to determine the position of points on a map or to calculate the distances between different locations. The term "latinity" was first introduced by German astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1756, and it has since been widely recognized as a standard unit of measurement for latitude. The lat