10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOXODROMY»
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A Compendium of Mathematical Geography. For the use of ...
The line along which a vessel sails, always cutting the meridians at the same
angle, is called a rhumb line, or loxodromy. (251.) It is easy to see what form such
a line on the sphere will take in Mercator's chart. Any small portion of that line, ...
Archibald Hastie DICK, James Stuart LAURIE, 1863
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Recreations mathematical and physical: laying down, and ...
'Tis visible" that the Loxodromy is a straight Line when there's no Angle of
Inclination, that it, when the Ship fails North and South, or keeps to the North and
South Rumb mark'd upon the Compass, when the Needle do's not decline ; for in
that ...
Jacques Ozanam, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), 1708
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A Compleat System Of General Geography: Explaining The ...
The Magnitude of the Loxodromy. 14. It's Parts betwixt equidistant Parallels are
equal. 15. 16. "Two Places of the Earth being given, to find the Loxodromy, or
Rhomb, which will be the Ship's Way, in sailing from one to the other ; and the
Point ...
Bernhardus Varenius, 1734
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Within the scene, each interlocutor alters position several times. The humour
essentially comes, then, from the two conflicting solipsisms. eastwards: the notes
summarizing this chapter in MSI include '7Ist day 12 [Dec.] loxodromy'. A
loxodromy ...
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The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts
Loxodromism or Loxodromy. What a mass of knowledge is cont lined in this little
word. Elevation, parallel position, these are household terms, and carry no
weight. The clown does not admire the preacher whom he understands ; " he is
no ...
John White Webster, Daniel Treadwell, John Ware, 1826
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Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts: Intended to ...
Loxodromism or Loxodromy. What a mass of knowledge is contained in this little
word. Elevation, parallel position, these are household terms, and carry no
weight. The clown does not admire the p'-eacher whom he understands ; " he is
no ...
John Ware, John White Webster, Daniel Treadwell, 1826
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The Quarterly journal of science, literature and art
The office near Soho-square for plundering, alternately, servants and masters,
would lose half its attractions but for its Therapolegia in scription. The guinea
paid for supplying it, was well bestowed. Loxodromism, or Loxodromy. What a
mass of ...
Loxodromism, or Loxodromy. What a mass of knowledge is contained in this little
word. Elevation, parallel position, these are .household terms, and carry no
weight. The clown does not admire the preacher whom he understands : " he is
no ...
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Cyclopaedia, Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and ...
_ _ LOXODROMICS, the art or method of oblique sadjng, by the loxodromy, or
rhumb. See SAiLiNc, and RHUMB. _ _ _ LOXODROMY *, LOXODROMIA, the.
line which a ship describes in sailing on the same collateral rhumb. See RHUMB.
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Cyclopaedia: Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ...
LOXODROMICS, the art or method of oblique an- A ing, by the loxodromy, or
rhumb. See SAILING, and RHUMB. LOXODROMY', LoxoDaoMrA, the line which
a ship describes in sailing on the same collateral rhumb. See RHUMB. _ * The
word ...
