Maps and map-making; three lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal geographical society (1910)
Reeves, Edward Ayearst, 1862-1945, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) · London, The Royal geographical society · leaf 89
make use of them for steering their ships, and fixingtheir positions approximately in latitude. But these weredoubtless few, and by far the greater number workedentirely by dead reckoning as it is now called by navi-gators, obtaining rough estimates of their distances anddirection, using landmarks,… … Fig. 70.—Chart of Atlantic, showing Loxodromic Lines.{From a chart of A.D. 1565 in Putnams Nautical Charts.) of them were covered with lines of bearings, or loxodromiclines (Greek Ao^o?, oblique, and Spo/xos, a course), as theywere called, for the guidance of navigators, like that herereproduced…
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