Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

OF THE THIRD VOLUME	1

Of the earth	2

To find the meridian of any place ibid	12

Of the moon	13

To find what oclock it is at any place of	30

To find the length of the day in any propofed	35

To conſtruct a horizontal dial to fhew	36

Of the real figure of the earth	45

To cut a ftone into feveral faces on which	251

Containing the moſt uſeful and interefting pro	255

Conftruction of the most important of the other	264

Method of arranging a horizontal dial con	282

How the shadow of a style on a fundial	321

To trace out on a dial the Italian hours	335

APPENDIX containing a general method of defcribing fun	344

Containing fome of the most curious	353

To determine the length of a degree on	52

To reprefent the terreftrial globe in plano	67

To determine without afronomical tables	74

Conflruction of a machine which indicates	81

A lunar year being given to find by means	88

To defcribe three and even four dials on	115

Of Saturn	159

Of Comets	167

Of the fixed stars	174

To find the day of the new moon in any pro	199

To find the moons age on any given	200

To find on what day of the week each month	214

The lunar and ſolar cycles and the cycle	231

Table of the years of the most remarkable epochs	237

How a veſſel may fail against the wind	359

What angle ought the rudder to make in	366

What is the most advantagecus form of con	373

If a vessel should be able to reach either of	385

arder to feer in the direction of a determinate meridian? 35	391

How to construct a hemifpherical arch	403

Two perfons who are neighbours have each	409

A gentleman has a quadrangular irregular	416

How to conftruct a wooden bridge of 100 feet	426

Is it a perfection in the church of St Peter	432

Table of the calibre of moulds of from 1 to 50 pounds	456

Another method of making rockets with ſtars	463

Another method of making sparks	474

Of funs both fixed and moveable	489

Title	Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ... Volume 3 of Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Jacques Ozanam Volume 3 of Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: Containing Amusing Dissertations and Enquiries Concerning a Variety of Subjects the Most Remarkable and Proper to Excite Curiosity and Attention to the Whole Range of the Mathematical and Philosophical Sciences, Jean Etienne Montucla Volume 3 of Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy, recomposed by m. Montucla and tr. by C. Hutton, Jean Étienne Montucla
Author	Jacques Ozanam
Editors	Jean Etienne Montucla, Charles Hutton
Translated by	Charles Hutton
Publisher	G. Kearsley, 1803
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	27 Feb 2009

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