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 Schools |
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ABCD acres adjacent angle base bearings and distances Calculation called centre chains changed circle Co-secant Secant Co-sine Co-tang column compass Construction contained corner corresponding decimal DEMONSTRATION describe diff difference of latitude dist divide division line draw east equal EXAMPLES feet field figures fourth term give given given angle given area given side greater half hand height Hence join latitude and departure length less logarithm measured meeting meridian multiplier Note off-sets opposite parallel perches perpendicular PROBLEM quotient radius ratio remainder Required the area right line right-angled triangle root RULE running scale side Sine square station straight subtract survey taken Tangent tract of land triangle triangle ABC
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Page 35 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
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| Title | 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 Schools |
| Author | John Gummere |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Kimber & Sharpless, 1828 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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