 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the center. (235.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1838 - 444 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (235.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones, inasmuch as they are really perspective reentire]/ an artificial one, representing t\\es^vfexe, *a \X presentations of the surface on a plane.... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 pages
...ones, inasmuch as they are really perspective rcpresentations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere...an eye carried successively over every part of it. in it, the degrees of longitude, and those of latiiud, bear always to each other their due proportion;... | |
 | 1841 - 276 pages
...Mercator's chart. The modes of projection which we treated of, before entering upon those of Development, may be considered natural ones ; inasmuch as they...really perspective representations of the surface of half the globe on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 744 pages
...projected di.. mensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 706 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 492 pages
...are projected into straight lines traversing the centre C : thus, BPA is projected into CA. (235.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones, inasmuch as they are really perspective re2dly. Every very small triangle, GHK, on the sphere, is represented by a similar triangle, ghk, in... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1853 - 608 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - 608 pages
...their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...perspective representations of the surface on a plane. Mercator's is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
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Both these projections may be considered natural ones, inasmuch as they are really perspective representations of the surface on a plane; but Mercator's projection is entirely an artificial one, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... 
