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 TangentsJ. Flesher, 1704 - 192 pages |
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... Instrument here described , is for the bet Information of the Fancy , by Speculation ; and it is deduced from the Catholick , or Universal Proposition , be fore treated of in Part II . Selt . II . Chap . III . of this Book ...
... Instrument here described , is for the bet Information of the Fancy , by Speculation ; and it is deduced from the Catholick , or Universal Proposition , be fore treated of in Part II . Selt . II . Chap . III . of this Book ...
Page 126
... Instrument Of the Instrument . was the Coutrivance ( many Years fince ) of the Right , Worshipful Sir Charles Scarborow , M. D. and divers of them have been made in Silver and Brass about the Bigness of a Crown Piece , with Verses in ...
... Instrument Of the Instrument . was the Coutrivance ( many Years fince ) of the Right , Worshipful Sir Charles Scarborow , M. D. and divers of them have been made in Silver and Brass about the Bigness of a Crown Piece , with Verses in ...
Page 129
... Instrument . HE Use of the Instrument is principally to give you by any Cafe . Example . In the Triangle ABC , suppose there were given Fig . the Perpendicular C A , and the Angle at the Base B , to find the Angle at the ...
... Instrument . HE Use of the Instrument is principally to give you by any Cafe . Example . In the Triangle ABC , suppose there were given Fig . the Perpendicular C A , and the Angle at the Base B , to find the Angle at the ...
Page 130
... Instrument , may the Proportions for the Solution of any Right - angled Spherical Triangle be readily fet down , and the Triangle refolved in any of the XVI . Cafes . On the Back - fide of this Instrument , there is another Contri ...
... Instrument , may the Proportions for the Solution of any Right - angled Spherical Triangle be readily fet down , and the Triangle refolved in any of the XVI . Cafes . On the Back - fide of this Instrument , there is another Contri ...
Page 132
... Instrument , either of the Great Circles or Parallels , the Excess is to be estimated in Minutes or Parts of a Degree . Example . The Perpendicular CA , and the Angle at the Base B , given , To find , ( 1 ) The Base BA . ( 2. ) The ...
... Instrument , either of the Great Circles or Parallels , the Excess is to be estimated in Minutes or Parts of a Degree . Example . The Perpendicular CA , and the Angle at the Base B , given , To find , ( 1 ) The Base BA . ( 2. ) The ...
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Acute Aldebaran alſo Azimuth Baſe becauſe Cafe Canons for Calculation Cathetus Centre CHAP Co-fine Co-tangent Compaſſes Declination Degrees deſcribe the Arch Dial Diameter Difference of Longitude Diſtance Ecliptick equal Equinoctial Extream fame firſt Foot fuch given Line Globe half Difference half Sum half the Difference half the Sum hath Horizon Hour-lines Hours Hypotenuse Index Interfection Leffer Logar Longitude Meaſure Meridian muſt North Number Oblique obſerved Obtufe oppofite Parallel Perpendicular Place Plain Triangle Planets Point Pole PROB Proportion Quadrant of Altitude Radius Rectangle refolved reſpect Right Afcenfion Right Angles Right Line Rumb ſame ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhew Sine Sine 90 Sine of half South Spherical Triangle ſtand Star Stile ſubſtracted ſuch Sun's ſuppoſe Tangent of half thereof theſe thoſe thoſe Sides Trigonometrical Calculation Verſed Sine Weft whoſe
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