Lexicographical Neighbors of Octantal
Literary usage of Octantal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Propositions in Geometry: In Five Parts by John Harris (1884)
"With centre Ct and radius Ci$, describe the circle aP 0 X, of which the half-octantal
arc /3 a 8 is a part. And so proceed in like manner. ..."
2. Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of by South Kensington Museum (1877)
"Smith and Evans, contains the mathematical investigation of the theory of these
octantal errors, and a very curious and interesting result is arrived at, ..."
3. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"The places for quadrantal subdivision will not in general be places for octantal
subdivision. You must experiment separately for the ..."
4. A Treatise on Electromagnetic Phenomena, and on the Compass and Its by Timothy Augustine Lyons (1903)
"... and octantal deviations—cols. (20) and (25), Table 74—may be due either to
the ship or to the length of the needles, or partly to both: their source is ..."
5. Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of by South Kensington Museum (1876)
"Smith and Evans, contains the mathematical investigation of the theory of these
octantal errors, and a very curious and interesting result is arrived at, ..."
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