- The
Arctic Circle is one of the two
polar circles, and the
northernmost of the five
major circles of
latitude as
shown on maps of
Earth at
about 66° 34'...
- the pole, six. On
these five
circles he
placed obliquely the
circles that the Gr****s call
loxos or zoe, the
Latins obliques or
vitalis (the zodiac) because...
- The
Antarctic Circle is the most
southerly of the five
major circles of
latitude that mark maps of Earth. The
region south of this
circle is
known as the...
-
ellipses on the
drawing plane, and not as
circles as they
would appear from an
orthogonal projection.
Oblique drawing is also the
crudest "3D" drawing...
-
believes that, like the sun and moon, it
revolves around the fire in an
oblique circle.
Heraclides of
Pontus and
Ecphantus the
Pythagorean make the
earth move...
-
transverse projection,
running through the
intermediate oblique states. A
rhumb line (blue) and
great circle (red) from Tokyo, ****an, to Callao, Peru, change...
-
supposing the
heaven to
remain at rest and the
earth to
revolve in an
oblique circle,
while it rotates, at the same time,
about its own axis. — On the Face...
-
Circle and
Antarctic Circle all
depend on the tilt of the Earth's axis
relative to the
plane of its
orbit around the Sun (the "
obliquity of the ecliptic")...
- In geometry,
Villarceau circles (/viːlɑːrˈsoʊ/) are a pair of
circles produced by
cutting a
torus obliquely through its
center at a
special angle. Given...
-
celestial equator intersects the
horizon at a
right angle. It
contrasts with
oblique ascension, the
point on the
celestial equator that
rises with any celestial...
