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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... Method exploded , Mafon - work , Bricklayers - work , Plaisterers - work , Carpenters - work , Tilers and Slaters work , Glaziers - work , Painters - work , Mifcellaneous Questions , ALGEBRA , Addition , Subtraction , Multiplication ...
... Method exploded , Mafon - work , Bricklayers - work , Plaisterers - work , Carpenters - work , Tilers and Slaters work , Glaziers - work , Painters - work , Mifcellaneous Questions , ALGEBRA , Addition , Subtraction , Multiplication ...
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... method by which this inconveniency is removed . There was a method formerly in ufe in making logarithms : The first inventors chofe a fet of numbers in arithmetical pro- greffion , that fhould answer to a fet of geometrical ones ...
... method by which this inconveniency is removed . There was a method formerly in ufe in making logarithms : The first inventors chofe a fet of numbers in arithmetical pro- greffion , that fhould answer to a fet of geometrical ones ...
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... method is fo intolerably laborious , the more learned mathematicians have thought of a more compen- dious one , by the menfuration of hyperbolic spaces , con- tained between the portions of an afymptote , and right lines perpendicular ...
... method is fo intolerably laborious , the more learned mathematicians have thought of a more compen- dious one , by the menfuration of hyperbolic spaces , con- tained between the portions of an afymptote , and right lines perpendicular ...
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... is to BD 178.4 2.25139 So is tang . 87 ° 25 ′ 55 ′′ - 11.34822 To BE the femidiameter , 3978 3.59961 2 The diameter of the earth 7956 Several Several methods have been invented to find the earth's diameter HEIGHTS AND DISTANCES . 35.
... is to BD 178.4 2.25139 So is tang . 87 ° 25 ′ 55 ′′ - 11.34822 To BE the femidiameter , 3978 3.59961 2 The diameter of the earth 7956 Several Several methods have been invented to find the earth's diameter HEIGHTS AND DISTANCES . 35.
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... methods have been invented to find the earth's diameter . Mr Picart of the Academy of sciences at Paris , has proposed an exact method , by which , not only the equatorial and polar diameters may be known , but also the figure of the ...
... methods have been invented to find the earth's diameter . Mr Picart of the Academy of sciences at Paris , has proposed an exact method , by which , not only the equatorial and polar diameters may be known , but also the figure of the ...
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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 115 - 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 232 - 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 372 - 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 395 - 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...