equinoctial line
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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
We ran for five days, always coming towards the equinoctial line, where the air and sea became more temperate.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas
They thought there was nothing south of the equinoctial line but an immense sea and some poor and barren islands.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.
From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay
Under the equinoctial line he has no disposition for exertion, his physiological relations with the climate making quietism most agreeable to him.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
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