Gnomonic

Word GNOMONIC
Character 8
Hyphenation gno mon ic
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "gnomonic" in example sentences

That map and Ritter's others are considered the first examples of a gnomonic map projection, a method to accurately represent the curvature of the earth on a flat surface. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The bearings as laid off on a small scale chart of gnomonic projection are very inaccurate, and here we are handicapped, as our chronometers have lost all regularity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Affixed to it are gnomonic instruments, made by Ignazio Dante in 1573. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

The Right Angle at an early date gave its name to the odd numbers, which were called, by the Greeks, gnomonic numbers, as personifying the male sex, and the Right-Angled ❋ Sydney T. Klein (1893)

Such are the Society's six gnomonic maps, the set of six gnomonic maps in Johnstone's 'Atlas of Astronomy,' and my own set of twelve gnomonic maps. ❋ Unknown (1862)

The distortion, however, is necessarily enormous when the celestial sphere is presented in only six gnomonic maps. ❋ Unknown (1862)

The maps depict the entire earth on a central or gnomonic projection, which shows the globe as six faces of a cube. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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