Sponsored Topics. Crete is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,346 at the 2000 census. Originally named Wood's Corner, it was founded in 1836 by Vermonters Dyantha and Willard Wood. Crete is located at 41Â°27â²21â³N 87Â°37â²8â³W / 41.45583Â°N 87.61889Â°W / 41.45583; -87.61889 (41.455910, -87.618798).
This geography fact also means that Africa is the only continent to have land both at the Equator and the Prime Meridian. These two maps show how the continent of Africa lies in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
The experiment was performed in 1657 at Magdeburg, Germany by Otto von Guericke (1602-1686), the Burgomeister (mayor) of Magdeburg. The hemispheres were made of bronze and were about 1.2 feet across. Von Guericke calculated that a force of almost 2700 pounds would be needed to pull the two hemispheres apart.Directly below is a picture of the original hemispheres in the Deutches Museum in Munich.ost physicists have seen the woodcut at the right, in which eight horses on the right and eight horses on the left are trying to pull apart two evacuated hemispheres.