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 7
... Ecliptic . VII . Geography subject of this Chapter , which is the Application of Spheric Trigonometry in finding the True Diftance of Places in the Variety of their Situation on the Globe of the Earth , In 4 Problems . VIII . Great ...
... Ecliptic . VII . Geography subject of this Chapter , which is the Application of Spheric Trigonometry in finding the True Diftance of Places in the Variety of their Situation on the Globe of the Earth , In 4 Problems . VIII . Great ...
Side 8
... Ecliptic , In 9 Problems . X. Then follow very ealy Rules to find the Variation of the Compafs , and how to rectify the fame , and to Correct the Courfe thereby , both Arithmetically and Inftrumentally , with great Readiness , Also ...
... Ecliptic , In 9 Problems . X. Then follow very ealy Rules to find the Variation of the Compafs , and how to rectify the fame , and to Correct the Courfe thereby , both Arithmetically and Inftrumentally , with great Readiness , Also ...
Side 151
... Ecliptic , the Rumbs , or Points of the Compaffes , & c . 9. The Semi - circle of Pofition , is a Semi - Circle of Brafs ; the upper Side is divided into 180 Degrees ; it ferveth to mealure Li- ftances , either on the Terreftrial or ...
... Ecliptic , the Rumbs , or Points of the Compaffes , & c . 9. The Semi - circle of Pofition , is a Semi - Circle of Brafs ; the upper Side is divided into 180 Degrees ; it ferveth to mealure Li- ftances , either on the Terreftrial or ...
Side 163
... Ecliptic , Colures , Meridians , and Circles of Longitude ; All these are called Great Circles . The leffer Circles are the Tropics , Polar Circles , and Pa- rallels of Declination . 4. The Equinoctial in this , is the fame with the ...
... Ecliptic , Colures , Meridians , and Circles of Longitude ; All these are called Great Circles . The leffer Circles are the Tropics , Polar Circles , and Pa- rallels of Declination . 4. The Equinoctial in this , is the fame with the ...
Side 164
... Ecliptic is a great Circle which croffeth the Equinoctial in two oppofite Points , the Beginning of Aries , and ... Ecliptic , making the whole Latitude to be 16 Degrees , which Breadth is called the Zodiac . The Zodiac is not drawn on ...
... Ecliptic is a great Circle which croffeth the Equinoctial in two oppofite Points , the Beginning of Aries , and ... Ecliptic , making the whole Latitude to be 16 Degrees , which Breadth is called the Zodiac . The Zodiac is not drawn on ...
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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.