equinoctial line
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We who reside in Lisbon, nearly forty degrees north of the equinoctial line, are distant from those who reside on the other side of the line, in angular meridional length, ninety degrees—that is, obliquely.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
The season was very contrary to us, by reason of the course of our navigation being continually in contact with the equinoctial line, where, in the month of June, it is winter.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las
On the contrary, while we were at the equinoctial line, or near it, the difference between the day and night was not perceptible.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
Called also the equinoctial line, or simply the line, being an imaginary circle round the earth, dividing the globe into two equal parts, and equally distant from both poles.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
When we had sailed for 300 leagues, being 3� to the south of the equinoctial line, a land was sighted 130 at a distance of twenty-two leagues, at which we were astonished.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las
