- In navigation, a
rhumb line,
rhumb (/rʌm/), or
loxodrome is an arc
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
- In navigation, a
loxodrome or
rhumb line is a path
whose bearing, the
angle between its
tangent and due North, is constant.
Loxodromes project to straight...
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lunar determination of
Greenwich time. In navigation, a
rhumb line (or
loxodrome) is a line
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, i.e...
-
Nunes first described the
mathematical principle of the
rhumb line or
loxodrome, a path with
constant bearing as
measured relative to true north, which...
- \cos \theta \,{\bigr )}.}
Clelia curve Loxodrome Another family of
spherical spirals is the
rhumb lines or
loxodromes, that
project to
straight lines on the...
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multiple names:
authors list (link) Weintrit, Adam; Kopcz,
Piotr (2014).
Loxodrome (Rhumb Line),
Orthodrome (Great Circle),
Great Ellipse and
Geodetic Line...
- by
Waldo R. Tobler, who
named it. It is
characterized by the fact that
loxodromes (rhumb lines) from one
chosen central point (the
intersection of the central...
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Physicist Luca
Amendola noted that the
deviation of
these sites from the
loxodrome that
allegedly connects them
ranges between 14 km and 42 km. The Sword...
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invention of the
Mercator projection c. 1600, the term
rhumb line (or
loxodrome) has been
redefined to mean a
mathematically precise curve of constant...
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Among other accomplishments, he was the
first to
propose the idea of a
loxodrome (a
rhumb line), and was the
inventor of
several measuring devices, including...
