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Greenwich geographic classification code:	298:4 – Miscellaneous (e.g. title pages of atlases) We have 6 charts of Miscellaneous (e.g. title pages of atlases) online	F2047, P/49(32) loxodromes © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London About our images Enlarge Buy Send Email Save
Maker:	Anonymous We have 184 objects online by Anonymous
Title:	[loxodrome]
Published:	manuscript
Physical description:	Bound sheet. Col. ms. Drawing area 32 x 53.5cm, on sheet 37 x 56cm
Medium:	Laid on linen
Collection:	Charts and maps
General note:	From volume eight, Maps of Ireland, of the Dartmouth collection of maps and plans, compiled for or by George Legge, Master General of the Ordnance.
Geographic coverage:	Ireland, Click on an area to see other charts of that region
Cartographic note:	This loxodrome was drawn to form the basis of a sea chart. A circle 15.8cm in diameter was subtended from a central point and 16 equidistant points (at 22.5 degree intervals) were marked on its perimeter. Each of the 17 nodes thus created has 32 lines radiating out from it and 16 of the 32 lines connect each node to every other node on the sheet. The loxodrome is crudely drawn and that may be the reason it was not used.
Annotations note:	A handwritten title verso 'and DingBay in Ireland' [?] is obscured by the linen backing.