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Page 32
... lines with which they are covered . From two points , in the western and eastern Mediterranean , sixteen or thirty - two lines radiate over the chart , and on the circumference of circles about these points similar subsidiary centres ...
... lines with which they are covered . From two points , in the western and eastern Mediterranean , sixteen or thirty - two lines radiate over the chart , and on the circumference of circles about these points similar subsidiary centres ...
Page 33
... line indicating magnetic north into the vertical . No contemporary explanation of this system of direction lines has survived , but since navigators were a conservative race , we may take that given by John Rotz , a sixteenth - century ...
... line indicating magnetic north into the vertical . No contemporary explanation of this system of direction lines has survived , but since navigators were a conservative race , we may take that given by John Rotz , a sixteenth - century ...
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... lines . It would not be a great step in advance to run these lines through soundings indicating a given depth of water . This appears to have been the practice by the begin- ning of the eighteenth century , by which time the number of ...
... lines . It would not be a great step in advance to run these lines through soundings indicating a given depth of water . This appears to have been the practice by the begin- ning of the eighteenth century , by which time the number of ...
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