10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLANE CHART»
Discover the use of
plane chart in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
plane chart and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The principles of
plane trigonometry, mensuration, ...
I. The Plane Chart. Art. 80. The charts commonly used in navigation are either
Plane charts, or Mercator's charts. The latter are generally to be preferred. But
plane charts will answer for short distances, such as the extent of a harbor or.
small ...
2
Early Tabular, Graphical and Instrumental, Methods for ...
This, in turn, doubtless paved the way for the 'plane chart', or 'carta plana
quadrada'. as the Portuguese called it. The characteristic feature of the plane
chart, as indicated by the Portuguese name, is the simple network of squares
forming the ...
3
A Treatise of
Plane Trigonometry: To which is Prefixed a ...
I. The Plane Chart. Art. 80. The charts commonly used in navigation are either
Plane charts, or Mercator's charts. The latter are generally to be preferred. But
plane charts will answer for short distances, such as the extent of a harbor or
small ...
4
Navigatio Britannica ...
A Plane-Chart is a Representation of some Part of the Superficies of the
Terraqueous Globe, in which the Meridians are suppose parallel to each other,
the Parallels of Latitude at equal Distances, and, consequently, the Degrees of
Latitude ...
5
A Course of Mathematics: Containing the Principles of
Plane ...
Containing the Principles of Plane Trigonometry, Mensuration, Navigation, and
Surveying : Adapted to the Method of Instruction in the American Colleges
Jeremiah Day. SECTION V. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES I. The Plane Chart. Art
. 80.
6
Naval Science: A Quarterly Magazine for Promoting the ...
Seamen understood the plane chart. and it seemed so simple that it held its
ground for more than a century after Wright's time. The author of the navigation in
Sir Jonas Moore's System of Mathematics thus laments, in 1681, the continued
use ...
Sir Edward James Reed, Joseph Woolley,
1872
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Epitome of the art of navigation: or, a short, easy and ...
Definitions. I. The Plane Chart supposeth the Earth and Sea tc make one flat
Superficies, or Long-square ; in which the Meridians are Parallel, and the
Degrees of Latitude arid Longitude^ equal in all Places ; which is only true in the
Equator. 2.
James Atkinson, William Mountaine,
1753
8
A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious ...
Qdly, As plane charts shew the degrees of the several parallels as equal to those
of the equator; therefore, the distance of places lying east and west, must be
represented much larger than they really are. And 3dly, in a plane chart, while the
...
9
A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Illustrated with a ...
And 3dly, in a plane chart, while the same rhumb is kept, the vessel appears to
sail on a great circle, which is not really the case. Yet plane charts made for a
small extent, as a few degrees in length and breadth, may be tolerably exact, ...
William Falconer, William Burney,
2012
10
The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, ...
To give an instance of this contusion: — Nicholson, of whose treatise Webber has
given an abstract, in describing the construction of the plane chart, directs, that
the meridians should be laid down at the same distance from each other with the
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