for it is in the nature of a curve
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back matter (another detail; 90º cw)
William Laister. A Treatise on Ship Draughting : A Plain Statement of the Process of Delineating the Lines of a Vessel on a Floor.
San Francisco (1866)
Harvard (Cabot Science Library) copy, digitized October 9, 2007
same scan (minus color), at archive.org
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...for it is in the nature of a curve that the points gradually increase their distances, and we can form an idea of where it is that we have made a slight error... 10
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sees further into empty trickiness, into what locals still call the “glim” or the "sea-glin...”
— John R. Stilgoe. Alongshore (1994) : 35
tags:
curves; glim; grays; loomings; mirage
William Laister, A Treatise on Ship Draughting (1866); John R. Stilgoe (on “glim,” 1994)