ORTHODROMICS
, in Navigation, is Great-circle sailing, or the art of sailing in the arch of a great circle, which is the shortest course: For the arch of a great circle is Orthodromia, or the shortest distance between two points or places.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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