A New Treatise on Surveying and Navigation, Theoretical and Practical: With Use of Instruments, Essential Elements of Trigonometry, and the Necessary Tables, for Schools, Colleges, and Practical Surveyors |
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Page 110 - ... 1. The radius into the sine of the middle part is equal to the product of the tangents of the adjacent parts. 2. The radius into the sine of the middle part is equal to the product of the cosines of the opposite parts. These rules are known as Napier's Rules, because they were first given by that distinguished mathematician, who was also the inventor of logarithms. In the application of these equations, the accent may be omitted if tan.
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Page 390 - NB In the following table, in the last nine columns of each page, where the first or leading figures change from 9's to O's, points or dots are introduced instead of the O's...
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Page 124 - Spherical Triangle the cosine of any side is equal to the product of the cosines of the other two sides, plus the product of the sines of those sides into the cosine of their included angle ; that is, (1) cos a = cos b...
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Page 16 - ... the solar lens, o, with the silver plate opposite, are made use of in the surveys. The remainder of the year, the arc is turned from the plates, and the other lens and plate employed.
Page 51 - B to describe a segment of a circle, to contain a given angle C. At the ends of the given line make angles DAB, DBA, each equal to the given angle C. Then draw AE, BE perpendicular to AD, BD ; and with the centre E, and radius EA or EB, describe a circle ; so shall AFB be the segment required, as any angle F made in it will be equal to the given angle C.
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| Title | A New Treatise on Surveying and Navigation, Theoretical and Practical: With Use of Instruments, Essential Elements of Trigonometry, and the Necessary Tables, for Schools, Colleges, and Practical Surveyors Robinson's mathematical series |
| Author | Horatio Nelson Robinson |
| Editor | Oren Root |
| Publisher | Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1878 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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