-
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...
-
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...
- 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:...
-
latitude and
longitude by way of
celestial navigation,
lunar mansions,
loxodromes, the
difference between coastal and open-sea sailing, the
locations of...
-
Tobler From the
designated centre,
lines of
constant bearing (rhumb lines/
loxodromes) are
straight and have the
correct length.
Generally asymmetric about...
-
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...
- 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...
