great-circle sailing

[′grāt ¦sər·kəl ′sāl·iŋ]

(navigation)

Any method of solving the various problems involving courses, distance, and so on, as they are relating to a great-circle track.

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Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin merely.

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Plain, Mercator and Great-Circle Sailing, Dialling and Astronomy'.(11)) Dougharty was not sole tutor at his school by this time, lessons being conducted |by my Self and Son, from 6 in the Morning to 10, and thence to 12 at Noon by my Son; also by us both, from 1 in the Afternoon, to 4, or longer if requir'd'.

Teachers of John Baskerville: John Dougharty the Elder (1677-1755) and John Doharty the Younger (c. 1707-a. 1763)