A Complete Treatise on Practical Mathematics: Including the Nature and Use of Mathematical Instruments: Logarithmic Tables, Trigonometry, Mensuration of Heights and Distances,--of Surfaces & Solids, Land Surveying, Gunnery, Gauging, Artificer's Measuring, Miscellaneous Exercises. With an Appendix on Algebra ... Principally Designed for the Use of Schools and AcademiesBell and Bradfute, 1792 - 431 páginas |
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... less been felt by those who have undertaken the charge of teaching , than by their pupils . It must be very disagreeable to a teacher , before he can lead a class through a course of Practical Geo- metry , to make the students purchase ...
... less been felt by those who have undertaken the charge of teaching , than by their pupils . It must be very disagreeable to a teacher , before he can lead a class through a course of Practical Geo- metry , to make the students purchase ...
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... less perplexing to a scholar to read them in order to retain what has been taught : Not to mention that the books so purchased may have a very different mode of expreffing the fame thing , which must still ' encrease the perplexity ...
... less perplexing to a scholar to read them in order to retain what has been taught : Not to mention that the books so purchased may have a very different mode of expreffing the fame thing , which must still ' encrease the perplexity ...
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... the business of teaching and learning the practical part of Mathematics will be attended with less trouble and expence than former- ly . CONTENTS . CONTENTS . DEFINITIONS , I Geometrical Problems , The diagonal viii PREFACE .
... the business of teaching and learning the practical part of Mathematics will be attended with less trouble and expence than former- ly . CONTENTS . CONTENTS . DEFINITIONS , I Geometrical Problems , The diagonal viii PREFACE .
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... other is perpendicular to it . See plate 1. fig . 3 . 12. An angle which is less than a right angle , is called an acute angle . See plate 1. fig . 4 . 13. An angle which is greater than a right angle 13 . DEFINITIONS,
... other is perpendicular to it . See plate 1. fig . 3 . 12. An angle which is less than a right angle , is called an acute angle . See plate 1. fig . 4 . 13. An angle which is greater than a right angle 13 . DEFINITIONS,
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... less than 1 ; that is , they are so many decimal parts ; likewife , that the indices of numbers between 10 and 100 are I of an integer , and fo many decimal parts , and fo on of numbers greater than 100 . The integral part is commonly ...
... less than 1 ; that is , they are so many decimal parts ; likewife , that the indices of numbers between 10 and 100 are I of an integer , and fo many decimal parts , and fo on of numbers greater than 100 . The integral part is commonly ...
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Página 27 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Página 103 - Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Página 3 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Página 220 - E, is equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, less four right angles.
Página 1 - ... common to the two triangles AFE, BFE, there are two sides in the one equal to two sides in the other, each to each ; and the base EA is equal to the base EB ; (i.
Página 38 - BG; that is, the fum of the fides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the fum of the angles at the bafe to the tangent of half their difference.
Página 352 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. III. Double the root already found for a divisor ; seek how many times the divisor is contained...
Página 38 - AB the greater side for a distance, let a circle be described, meeting AC, produced in E, F, and BC in D; join DA, EB, FB; and draw FG parallel to BC, meeting EB in G. The angle EAB (32.
Página 38 - ACB (32. 1.) is equal to the angles CAD and ADC, or ABC together ; therefore FAD is the difference of the angles at the...
Página 375 - TO divide a given ftraight line into two parts, fo that the rectangle contained by the whale, and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Let AB be the given ftraight line; it is required to divide it into two parts, fo that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, fhall be equal to the fquare of the other part. Upon AB...