A Treatise on Surveying: Containing the Theory and Practice : to which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry : the Whole Clearly Demonstrated and Illustrated by a Large Number of Appropriate Examples, Particularly Adapted to the Use of SchoolsKimber & Sharpless, 1833 - 216 pages |
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100 Distance ABē ABCD acres adjacent adjacent angles angles ABC base bearings and distances Calculation centre chains or perches changed bearing Co-secant Secant Co-sine Co-tang column compass decimal degrees DEMONSTRATION describe the arc diff difference of latitude dist divide division line draw equal EXAMPLES feet figures find the angles find the area four-pole chains fourth term given angle given area given bearing given number given side Given the bearings Hence hypothenuse John Gummere LatDegDegDegDeg Distance latitude and departure length line FE logarithm measured multiplier off-sets parallelogram parture perpendicular place of beginning pole star prob quired quotient radius rectangle Required the area right-angled triangle RULE side AC Sine square root station stationary lines subtract take the difference tance Tangent tract of land trapezium triangle ABC trigonometry two-pole chains