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Mercator Sailing and Meridional Parts
From: David Pike
Date: 2014 Nov 30, 12:29 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2014 Nov 30, 12:29 -0800
I found a scrap of paper of my fathers today from the 1950s containing a calculation for a course and distance for a sailing between Mukle Flugga and Troena Island (below). Eventually I worked out it must be a Mercator Sailing, which I’d not heard of although I had heard of Plane Sailing. I’d not seen the use of Tabular Logs before either as per NoriesTtables (9. instead of bar one), so that took a bit of getting used to. Having now discovered Meridional Parts, I’m a bit flummoxed to understand why the ones in Nories Tables for the Terrestrial Spheroid come to less than latitude x 60 from 0 degrees to 11.5 degrees before they start racing ahead. Is this because of the compression of 1/293.465 whatever that means?
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