equinoctial line

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They thought there was nothing south of the equinoctial line but an immense sea and some poor and barren islands.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

Having laid in our provisions, we commenced our navigation with a southeasterly wind, on the 15th of February, when the sun was already approaching the equinoctial line, and tending towards this, our northern hemisphere.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

Its monasteries are scattered from the north of Tartary almost to the equinoctial line.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

Equator, or equinoctial line, an imaginary line passing round the earth, from east to west, and directly under the sun, which always shines nearly perpendicularly down upon all countries situated near the equator.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

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 Smith, David Eugene