by Thales of Miletus. Gnomonics was used by Greek and Roman architects from 25 BCE for the design of buildings. Modern gnomonics has its root in the nascent...
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A gnomonic projection, also known as a central projection or rectilinear projection, is a perspective projection of a sphere, with center of projection...
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several other publications, including Sundials: The Art and Science of Gnomonics, Scientific American and Sundials: Their Theory and Construction. Egger...
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Map projection (section Gnomonic)
maint: unfit URL (link) Weisstein, Eric W. "Gnomonic Projection". MathWorld. Savard, John. "The Gnomonic Projection". Archived from the original on 30...
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Unlike other polyhedral map projections, the Dymaxion map does not use a gnomonic projection (perspective projection through the Earth's center onto the...
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(1679) La gnomonique ou l'Art de faire des cadrans au soleil (1682) (Gnomonics or the Art of making sundials.) Sectiones conicæ (1685) (Conic sections...
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galactic astronomy and extragalactic astronomy, history of astronomy, gnomonics, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Sullivan was...
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in some aspect Conic Equirectangular Sinusoidal Two-point Werner Gnomonic Gnomonic Loxodromic Loximuthal Mercator Retroazimuthal (Mecca or Qibla) Craig...
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whose use dates back to antiquity. Like the orthographic projection and gnomonic projection, the stereographic projection is an azimuthal projection, and...
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minimize interrupting major land masses. Popko notes the projection can be gnomonic too. The two methods yield very similar results. Like Buckminster Fuller's...
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(1973), p. 34 Cousins, Frank W. (1973). Sundials: The art and science of gnomonics. New York, NY: Pica Press. pp. 189–195. Stong, C.L. (1959). "The Amateur...
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Beltrami–Klein model (section Relation of the disk model to the hyperboloid model and the gnomonic projection of the sphere)
segments with ideal endpoints on the boundary sphere. It is analogous to the gnomonic projection of spherical geometry, in that geodesics (great circles in spherical...
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Astronomy. Cosmography. Uranography. Geography. Hydrography. Chronology. Gnomonics. Optics. Optics, properly said. Dioptrics, Perspective. Catoptrics. Acoustics...
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cartography has been used since antiquity. Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a perspective projection in which...
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Great circle sailing chart of the North Atlantic with gnomonic projection, published by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and annotated by Lindbergh. He described...
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General perspective Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic Equidistant Lambert equal-area...
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on the similar central cylindrical projection, a limiting case of the gnomonic projection, which is the basis for a sundial. Snyder amended his assessment...
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General perspective Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic Equidistant Lambert equal-area...
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are correct. Other equidistant properties are mentioned in the notes. Gnomonic All great circles are straight lines. Retroazimuthal Direction to a fixed...
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Great-circle navigation (section Gnomonic chart)
geodesic is φ = −7.07°, λ = −159.31°, α = −57.45°. A straight line drawn on a gnomonic chart is a portion of a great circle. When this is transferred to a Mercator...
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General perspective Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic Equidistant Lambert equal-area...
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gold medal (Kronprinsens gullmedalje) for a Mathematics subject about Gnomonics. In 1856 he took the high school mathematics teacher's examination (Realkankidat...
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