Applied minor tactics (including map problems and the war game) map reading and map sketching (1912)
Moss, James Alfred, 1872- [from old catalog] · Washington, D.C. [National capital press, inc.] sales agents, The U. S. Infantry association; [etc., etc.] · leaf 21
we see that the slopes are directly por-tional to the nearness of the contours—that is, the nearer the contours ona map are to one another, the steeper is the slope, and the farther thecontours On a map are from one another, the gentler is the slope. Awide space between contours, therefore,… … Figure 6. Figure 7. Figure 8. The contours of a half sphere (Figure 7), are a series of circles, farapart near the center (top), and near together at the outside (bottom),showing that the slope of a hemisphere varies at all points, being nearlyflat on top and increasing in steepness toward the…
Maps, Military · Tactics · War games
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