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angle Answer Apparent distance Arc second arch azimuth Bearing and Distance Chro chron Co-sec Co-sine Co-tan compass Corr correction corresponding course and distance degrees difference of latitude difference of longitude Dist Ditto East Equation EXAMPLE extent will reach feet given Greenwich mean Half-sum height horizon horizon-glass index error Latitude and Departure latitude by account logarithm LOGARITHMIC SINES meridian altitude middle latitude miles minutes moon Moon's apparent altitude Moon's horizontal parallax Natural Versed Nautical Almanac nonius noon North observed altitude observer's eye parallel perpendicular planet points Porto Santo radius refraction remainder required the latitude required the true right ascension sails Secant seconds sextant ship ship's sine South star subtracted Sun's declination sun's lower limb Sun's right ascension Sun's semidiameter Sun's true altitude Suvers taken Tang tangent true distance true longitude upper limb variation West zenith distance
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Side 20 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center, Fig.
Side 17 - Multiply the index of the quantity by the index of the power to which it is to be raised, and the result will be the power required.
Side 16 - DIVISION BY LOGARITHMS. RULE. From the logarithm of the dividend subtract the logarithm of the divisor, and the number answering to the remainder will be the quotient required.
Side 159 - Astronomers, with a view of obtaining a convenient and uniform measure of time, have recourse to a mean solar day, the length of which is equal to the mean or average of all the apparent solar days in a year. An imaginary Sun, called the mean Sun...
Side 5 - LV. contains the times of high water on the full and change of the moon, with the vertical rise of the tide, at many ports, harbors.
Side 15 - Consequently, when the first three terms of a proportion are given, the fourth is found by multiplying the second and third terms together, and dividing the product by the first term.
Side 231 - ... will be double the altitude of the sun's limb above the horizontal plane ; to the half of which, if the semidiameter, refraction, and parallax be applied, the result will be the true altitude of the centre.
Side 20 - For the purpose of measuring angles, the circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Side 52 - TO THEIR DIFFERENCE ; So IS THE TANGENT OF HALF THE SUM OF THE OPPOSITE ANGLES', To THE TANGENT OF HALF THEIR DIFFERENCE.
Side 37 - ... division. Or the extent from any division to another on the line of meridional parts, applied to the line of equal parts, will give the meridional difference of latitude between the two places denoted by the divisions.