Great-circles Sentence Examples

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  • When several rings or circles were combined representing the great circles of the heavens, the instrument became an armillary sphere.

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  • Treating the earth as a sphere, the meridians of longitude are all great circles.

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  • According to his view, all mountain ranges parallel to the same great circle of the earth are of strictly contemporaneous origin, and between the great circles a relation of symmetry exists in the form of a pentagonal reseau.

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  • The chief conclusions of astronomers concerning the .spherical figure and dimensions of the earth, its relation to the heavenly bodies, and the great circles of the globe - the equator, the ecliptic and the tropics - were considered as well established.

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  • He used arcs of great circles instead of arcs of great circles instead of arcs of parallel circles on the sphere.

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  • The statement is given in terms of intersecting great circles on a sphere.

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  • The armillary sphere survives as useful for teaching, and may be described as a skeleton celestial globe, the series of rings representing the great circles of the heavens, and revolving on an axis within a horizon.

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