Abstract
I am reminded that this was the title of a paper by Professor W. M. Smart, published elsewhere in 1946, dealing with the rhumb line on the spheroid, by references in recent issues of this Journal to a paper of mine entitled ‘Loxodro-mic distances on the Terrestrial Spheroid’ which appeared in this Journal 32 years ago: the subject crops up every few years.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Ocean Engineering,Oceanography
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1. 5A pun: ‘Kremer’ meant ‘merchant’, Latin ‘mercator’, in archaic Dutch.
2. On a Problem in Navigation
3. 6As we would now say, the second condition is that the projection should be ‘orthomorphic’ or ‘conformal’. Conformal mapping theory was settled by Gauss around about 1830.
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