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The Book of the Consulate of the Sea (Catalan: Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit. 'Book of the Consulate of Sea') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Valencian origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law.
A space curve; the vectors T, N, B; and the osculating plane spanned by T and N. In differential geometry, the Frenet–Serret formulas describe the kinematic properties of a particle moving along a differentiable curve in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or the geometric properties of the curve itself irrespective of any motion.
Flor do Mar or Flor de la Mar (Flower of the Sea, spelled Frol de la Mar in Portuguese chronicles of the 16th century [5]) was a Portuguese nau of 400 tons, which over nine years participated in decisive events in the Indian Ocean until her sinking in November 1511.
Cartesian anxiety, a hope that studying the world will give us unchangeable knowledge of ourselves and the world; Cartesian circle, a potential mistake in reasoning ...
In the Netherlands, where Descartes had lived for a long time, Cartesianism was a doctrine popular mainly among university professors and lecturers.In Germany the influence of this doctrine was not relevant and followers of Cartesianism in the German-speaking border regions between these countries (e.g., the iatromathematician Yvo Gaukes from East Frisia) frequently chose to publish their ...
The four quadrants of a Cartesian coordinate system. The axes of a two-dimensional Cartesian system divide the plane into four infinite regions, called quadrants, each bounded by two half-axes.
Volta do mar, volta do mar largo, or volta do largo (the phrase in Portuguese means literally 'turn of the sea' but also 'return from the sea') is a navigational technique perfected by Portuguese navigators during the Age of Discovery in the late fifteenth century, using the dependable phenomenon of the great permanent wind circle, the North ...
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