 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1858 - 790 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 - 1861 - 588 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 - 1861 - 572 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. Mercatori is entirely an artificial one, representing ihe sphere as it cannot be seen from any one... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1861 - 588 pages
...receding from the centre. (283.) Both these projections may be considered natural ones, inasffloeh as they are really 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 W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1864 - 790 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... | |
 | Edward C. Frome - 1873 - 446 pages
...stereorjraphic, their projected dimensions are, on the contrary, somewhat enlarged in receding from the centre." Both these projections may be considered natural ones,...on a, plane; but Mercator's projection is entirely artificial, representing the sphere as it cannot be seen from any one point, but as it might be seen... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1902 - 478 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... 
