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ORTHODOX

Volume 15 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

in church history, an appellation given to those who are found in all the articles of the Christian faith.

ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION OF THE SPHERE, that wherein the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; so called, because the perpendiculars, from any point of the sphere, will all fall in the common intersection of the sphere with the plane of the projection. See GEOGRAPHY AND PROJECTION.