equinoctial line
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of equinoctial line
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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In December, 1499, in June of which year Ojeda and Vespucci had set out together, Vicente Pinzon sailed along the Brazilian coast to a point eight degrees south of the equinoctial line.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
As I have before stated, we sailed from Lisbon—which is nearly forty degrees distant from the equinoctial line towards the north—to this country, which is fifty degrees on the other side of the line.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
All of these provinces are situated directly under the equinoctial line between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; but they are two hundred fifty leagues nearer our tropic than the other.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
This country is situated eighteen degrees south of the equinoctial line, and fifty-seven degrees farther west than Lisbon, as our instruments showed us.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
Such rivers abounded from the equinoctial line to the Gulf of St. Michael.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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