Epitome of the Art of Navigation; Or, a Short, Easy, and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plane and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with Its Uses in All Kinds of Mensuration ...J. Mount and T. Page, 1765 - 447 sider |
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Side 6
... several Courses called a Traverse . 3. In an Oblique - Triangle , in which are but 4 Cafes , though there may be a Multitude of various Questions ; of which you have a Tafe in Turning to Windward , and Sailing in Currents , in 21 ...
... several Courses called a Traverse . 3. In an Oblique - Triangle , in which are but 4 Cafes , though there may be a Multitude of various Questions ; of which you have a Tafe in Turning to Windward , and Sailing in Currents , in 21 ...
Side 40
... Either of these Proportions is fufficient to find both Angles . 2. The Hypotenufe AC may be found ( by the 2d Cafe ) several ways .. Firft , Making the Hypotenuse AC Radius ; thus , First , 40 Chap . II . Plane Trigonometry Rectangular .
... Either of these Proportions is fufficient to find both Angles . 2. The Hypotenufe AC may be found ( by the 2d Cafe ) several ways .. Firft , Making the Hypotenuse AC Radius ; thus , First , 40 Chap . II . Plane Trigonometry Rectangular .
Side 76
... several Triangles , nine diftinct Statings and Operations are required . The next four Problems are used in turning to Windward . Problem X. Suppofe the Wind South , and a Ship is bound to a Port 400 Leagues directly to Windward , and ...
... several Triangles , nine diftinct Statings and Operations are required . The next four Problems are used in turning to Windward . Problem X. Suppofe the Wind South , and a Ship is bound to a Port 400 Leagues directly to Windward , and ...
Side 167
... several Magnitudes are expreffed on the Globe in their feveral Forms , as may be feen in a little Table placed on the Globes , and intitled Stellarum Magnitudines . Section IV . The Ufe of the Cœleftial Globe . L 4 Sect . IV . Se & t ...
... several Magnitudes are expreffed on the Globe in their feveral Forms , as may be feen in a little Table placed on the Globes , and intitled Stellarum Magnitudines . Section IV . The Ufe of the Cœleftial Globe . L 4 Sect . IV . Se & t ...
Side 303
... Several Courfes and Distances given ; to find the Diff . of Lat . and Depart . which is the refolving a Traverse . Example . Admit a Ship fails WSW . 106.2m . then W. by N. m.10.4 then SW . by W. 23m . I demand the Difference of ...
... Several Courfes and Distances given ; to find the Diff . of Lat . and Depart . which is the refolving a Traverse . Example . Admit a Ship fails WSW . 106.2m . then W. by N. m.10.4 then SW . by W. 23m . I demand the Difference of ...
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Side 132 - America, but know that we are alive, that two and two make four, and that the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side.
Side 229 - ... or taking their difference when of contrary names ; the altitude to be reckoned from the south point of the horizon, when the latitude is north, and the contrary when south ; but when the sum exceeds 90°, it is to be taken from 180°, F and reckoned from the opposite point of the horizon, that is, from the north in north latitude, and from the south in south latitude.
Side 49 - Leap-year, or bissextile, Is every fourth year, and so called from its leaping a day more that year than in a common year ; so that the common year hath three hundred and sixty-five days...
Side 123 - We infer from this that a triangle can be constructed with three given lines as sides, when the sum of any two sides is greater than the third side.
Side 58 - The complement of an arc, or angle less than 90°, is what that angle wants of a quadrant, or 90°.
Side 165 - AZIMCTR circles, called azimuths, or vertical circles, are great circles of the sphere, intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles in all the points thereof.
Side 224 - ... as the radius is to the tangent of the latitude ; so is the tangent of the sun's declination to the sine of the ascensional difference sought. This, converted into time, shows how much he rises...
Side 46 - BD, is to their Difference ; fo is the Tangent of half the Sum of the Angles BDC and BCD, to the Tangent of half their Difference.
Side 217 - ... which from the right ascension, when the sun is in the northern signs, and adding it, when the sun is in the southern ones, you will find the oblique ascension.
Side 297 - Canon, is a table showing the length of the sine, tangent, and secant, to every degree and minute of the quadrant, with respect to the radius, which is expressed by unity or 1, with any number of ciphers.