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Such a chart had to embody a practical method of representing the curved meridians and parallels on a flat surface.
In effect, a projection is a systematic method of drawing the Earth's meridians and parallels on a flat surface.
It grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia over control of a part of the Atacama Desert that lies between the 23rd and 26th parallels on the Pacific coast of South America.
Thus, the decision to found the theory of parallels on a postulate, as in Book I of the Elements, must have been a relatively recent development in Euclid's time.
He made an extended study of parallel lines in Sharḥ muṣādarāt Kitāb Uqlīdis ("Commentary on the Premises of Euclid's Elements") and based his treatment of parallels on equidistant lines rather than Euclid's definition of lines that never meet.
The New York Times once described Nighty Night, the series for which she's best known, as "an English Curb Your Enthusiasm", which is entirely inadequate, but understandably so, since there aren't any real parallels on either side of the Atlantic.
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The schedule allows us to run four independent filters in parallel on one arithmetic macro set.
Foss says the trajectory of his career went parallel on rails.
The twin scars running parallel on Bill Walker's knees represent what could have been.
Edward loosened his tie and firmly set down his knife and fork in parallel on his plate.
can stop escalation short of the 17th Parallel on the ground & give China no cause for intervention.
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