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The lack of coincidence of three-dimensional coordinate-radials with the spherical radii and nonuniform radial length of the three-dimensional coordinate and nonperpendicular incidence of three-dimensional radials upon the spherical surfaces, has caused a heterogeneity of angles and lengths in respect to all conventional projections, which in turn has added frustration and entirely unnecessary awkwardness and complexity to the trigonometric problems of navigational science.
This unnecessary awkwardness of three-dimensionality has also promoted the ‘calculus’in’blind’ calculations, where visual transformations might otherwise have accrued to a simplified multidimensional spherical trigonometry.
