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- stereographic projection map, a loxodrome is an equiangular spiral whose center is the north or south pole. All loxodromes spiral from one pole to the other...
- 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...
- /a},\,} where the parameter a measures the "tightness" of the loxodrome. Thus loxodromes correspond to logarithmic spirals. These spirals intersect radial...
- normal aspect maps trajectories of constant bearing (called rhumb lines or loxodromes) on a sphere to straight lines on the map, and is thus uniquely suited...
- 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...
- 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...
- no projection was used in portolans, and those straight lines could be loxodromes only if the chart was drawn on a suitable projection. As Leo Bagrow states:...
- \cos \theta \,{\bigr )}.} Clelia curve Loxodrome Another family of spherical spirals is the rhumb lines or loxodromes, that project to straight lines on the...
- transformation will be conjugate to a transform that moves all points along such loxodromes. If we take the one-parameter subgroup generated by any loxodromic Möbius...
- 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...