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Elements of precise surveying and geodesy (1904)

Merriman, Mansfield, 1848-1925 · New York Wiley · leaf 193

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ction devised by Flamsted to avoid this distortionconsists in dividing the central meridian NS into parts pro-portional to the distance be-tween the parallels, and throughthese points drawing straightlines to represent those paral-lels. Each parallel is thendivided into the same number-^ of equal… … 190 GEODETIC COORDINATES AND PROJECTIONS. VIII. A projection devised by Bonne is constructed in a similarmanner to that of Flamsted, except that the parallels areconcentric circles. The center of these circles is in themiddle meridian and at a distance of a cotL from the middleparallel whose…

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