Abstract
IN coastal navigation there is no problem of greater general utility than that of fixing positions by means of “cross-bearings” of two terrestrial objects. If, for instance, we have one object bearing due north and a second bearing due east, we have but to lay down the bearings reversed, south from the one and west from the other, and the point of intersection of the two lines of bearing fixes the position of the ship.
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G., H. A New Problem of Coastal Navigation. Nature 106, 548–549 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106548a0
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