The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1884 |
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... latitude . The second circle EQ is fixed at right angles to the first , and represents the equinoctial line . The upper side is divided into twenty - four parts , representing the hours from noon or midnight . On the inner side of that ...
... latitude . The second circle EQ is fixed at right angles to the first , and represents the equinoctial line . The upper side is divided into twenty - four parts , representing the hours from noon or midnight . On the inner side of that ...
Page 253
... latitude and departure in proportion to the tangent of the course . R S been noticed in the article MAP , where a sketch is given of his map of the world , of 1569 ( vol . xv . p . 521 ) . From facsimiles of his early charts in Jomard ...
... latitude and departure in proportion to the tangent of the course . R S been noticed in the article MAP , where a sketch is given of his map of the world , of 1569 ( vol . xv . p . 521 ) . From facsimiles of his early charts in Jomard ...
Page 254
... latitude , and distance , the getting together many horizontal courses into one " infallible and true , " i.e. , what is now called traverse and Mercator's sailings . His " para- doxical course " he describes correctly as a rhumb line ...
... latitude , and distance , the getting together many horizontal courses into one " infallible and true , " i.e. , what is now called traverse and Mercator's sailings . His " para- doxical course " he describes correctly as a rhumb line ...
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... latitude must increase in the same proportion as the secants of the arc contained between those points and the ... latitude left , course steered , and difference of longi- tude made good , Bond found the latitude of ship , by projection ...
... latitude must increase in the same proportion as the secants of the arc contained between those points and the ... latitude left , course steered , and difference of longi- tude made good , Bond found the latitude of ship , by projection ...
Page 256
... latitude and the divisions of the meridional line was discovered by chance , and first published by H. Bond , in Norwood's Epitome of Navigation . James Gregory furnished a demonstration in 1668 ; but it was long and tedious . Halley ...
... latitude and the divisions of the meridional line was discovered by chance , and first published by H. Bond , in Norwood's Epitome of Navigation . James Gregory furnished a demonstration in 1668 ; but it was long and tedious . Halley ...
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