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distances had to be referred. Paris Observatory In the year 1634, France ruled by Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, decided that the Ferro Meridian through...33 KB (3,940 words) - 16:25, 19 July 2024- Pole Meridian arc, the distance between two points with the same longitude Prime meridian, origin of longitudes Principal meridian, arbitrary meridians used...6 KB (763 words) - 18:41, 29 June 2024
- Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or...45 KB (5,556 words) - 01:02, 3 August 2024
0° A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together...60 KB (4,782 words) - 14:40, 3 August 2024
equatorial plane, and the line of tangency is any chosen meridian, thereby designated the central meridian. Both projections may be modified to secant forms...39 KB (4,512 words) - 02:58, 5 August 2024
distance between the parallels that intersect the meridian at those points. With no distortion along the central meridian and the equator, distances along...4 KB (464 words) - 02:21, 5 May 2024
Map projection (redirect from Central meridian (map projections))mapped at a distance from the central meridian that is proportional to its difference in longitude from the central meridian. Therefore, meridians are equally...59 KB (6,482 words) - 18:08, 4 August 2024
degrees of longitude, and each has a designated central meridian. The scale factor at the central meridian is specified to be 0.9996 of true scale for most...17 KB (2,833 words) - 22:21, 29 June 2024
Mercator projection (section On a meridian)the ruler distance. Calling the ruler distances of the end points on the map meridian as measured from the equator y1 and y2, the true distance between...49 KB (6,732 words) - 10:01, 15 July 2024- rooting from the crossing of the Prime Meridian and the Equator at 0,0. The Central Meridian used to be based on a meridian located at the old observatory in...3 KB (286 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2023
The great-circle distance, orthodromic distance, or spherical distance is the distance between two points on a sphere, measured along the great-circle...13 KB (1,901 words) - 04:20, 27 July 2024
Latitude (section Meridian distance)}{2}}\right)\,} For WGS84 this distance is 10001.965729 km. The evaluation of the meridian distance integral is central to many studies in geodesy and...47 KB (6,184 words) - 04:39, 7 August 2024
measuring their angular distance from the nadir. These are special purpose telescopes mounted so as to allow pointing only in the meridian, the great circle...31 KB (4,104 words) - 00:40, 22 April 2024- regularly-spaced meridians to equally spaced vertical lines, and parallels to horizontal lines. Pseudocylindrical In normal aspect, these map the central meridian and...31 KB (780 words) - 16:17, 4 August 2024
- that expressed as a power series in the longitude difference from the central meridian. These series were recalculated by Lee in 1946, by Redfearn in 1948...26 KB (4,902 words) - 03:00, 5 August 2024
Public Land Survey System (redirect from Meridian (PLSS))foreign powers. Range (Rng, R): A measure of the distance east or west from a referenced principal meridian, in units of six miles. Section: An approximately...53 KB (6,040 words) - 03:22, 14 July 2024- Longitude (redirect from Meridian of longitude)lambda (λ). Meridians are imaginary semicircular lines running from pole to pole that connect points with the same longitude. The prime meridian defines 0°...35 KB (4,153 words) - 15:34, 20 July 2024
Treaty of Tordesillas (redirect from Tordesillas meridian)Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa...38 KB (4,501 words) - 10:02, 25 July 2024
towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, pre-corrected for the equation of time on the date of observation, to...25 KB (2,437 words) - 06:41, 1 August 2024
nearest metre, then curvature of the earth is undetectable over a meridian distance of about 100 kilometres (62 mi) and over an east-west line of about...35 KB (5,382 words) - 07:35, 22 June 2024
- Poulkowa. all the nations accepted this distance and the meridian of Ferro, except England, which fixed her first meridian at St. Paul's in London, and later
- Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich at the location of the prime meridian. He was also the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. The investigation
- of the two main oceans (crossing the 30th meridian West in the Atlantic Ocean or crossing the 170th meridian West in the Pacific Ocean) in order to bridge