- 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...
-
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...
- \cos \theta \,{\bigr )}.}
Clelia curve Loxodrome Another family of
spherical spirals is the
rhumb lines or
loxodromes, that
project to
straight lines on the...
- 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...
-
multiple names:
authors list (link) Weintrit, Adam; Kopcz,
Piotr (2014).
Loxodrome (Rhumb Line),
Orthodrome (Great Circle),
Great Ellipse and
Geodetic Line...
-
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...
- map in
using the
Mercator projection is
called the
rhumb line or the
loxodrome,
which is used to
indicate the
qibla by a
minority of Muslims. It can...
-
invention of the
Mercator projection c. 1600, the term
rhumb line (or
loxodrome) has been
redefined to mean a
mathematically precise curve of constant...
-
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...
