Nine Geometricall Exercises: For Young Sea-men, and Others that are Studious in Mathematicall Practices ... All which Exercises are Geometrically Performed, by a Line of Chords and Equal Parts, by Waies Not Usually Known Or Practised. Unto which the Analogies Or Proportions are Added, Whereby They May be Applied to the Chiliads of Logarithms, and Canons of Artificiall Sines and Tangents |
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If the Two Places lye under the fame Meridian , but in dif . ferent Hemispheres , i.e. one on the North , and the other on the South Side of the Aquinoctial : Then , Add both the Latitudes together , and the sum of them is their ...
If the Two Places lye under the fame Meridian , but in dif . ferent Hemispheres , i.e. one on the North , and the other on the South Side of the Aquinoctial : Then , Add both the Latitudes together , and the sum of them is their ...
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