How To Use Loxodrome In A Sentence
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This is the second Mercator chart showing Lindbergh's route as a series of 500 mile-long loxodromes approximating the great circle route from New York to Paris.
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his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride.
The Seattle Times
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The Mercator projection was developed especially for navigators, and presents straight lines as loxodromes.
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How Mercator did this is as follows: the meridians and parallels must be arranged so that the loxodromes cut the meridians at constant angles.
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Since a loxodrome is not a great circle, it follows that by tracking a loxodrome a longer distance must be traveled compared to a great circle line.
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The problem of calculating loxodromes is exactly the problem of the fundamental theorem of calculus.
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In fact, if the birds were to follow loxodromes, maintaining fixed geographic courses, the vast majority would migrate towards Greenland.
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The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp.
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Snell studied the loxodrome, the path on the sphere that makes constant angle with the meridians.
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For the first time, sea captains had maps showing loxodromes as straight lines.
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The ring of mass traces out the full path of the loxodrome from one pole to the other pole and back.
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Mercator also produced the first globe to have rhumb lines (1541), based on his observation that a ship sailing towards the same point of the compass would follow a curve called a loxodrome (also called a rhumb line or spherical helix).
Mercator, Gerardus
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All other loxodromes, e.g. the direction NW, trace spiral paths that converge on either the north or south pole.
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In "De arte navigandi" he announced his discovery and analysis of the curve of double curvature called the rumbus, better known as loxodrome, which is the line traced by a ship cutting the meridians at a constant angle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Near the equator the separate loxodromes are nearly right lines.
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It is an interesting exercise to compare loxodromes on a Mercator map with courses on a globe with the same end points.
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The map is drawn on Mercator's projection with loxodromes.
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Loxodromes appear as straight lines on the Mercator projection, while orthodromes appear as straight lines on the gnomonic projection.
