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Contents
PART L | 1 |
GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS བབབབ | 7 |
Upon a given line to make a regular pentagon | 13 |
Upon a given line to construct a regular octagon | 14 |
Any two sides of a rightangled triangle being given | 33 |
To find the area of an irregular polygon of | 37 |
To find the length of any arc of a circle | 44 |
of a circular zone | 52 |
THE MASONS WORK | 206 |
Abstract of the Carpenters and Joiners Work | 213 |
The Mensuration of HayStacks Drains Canals | 220 |
To find the number of cubic yards which have been | 228 |
Directions for measuring ponds and milldams | 237 |
A description of some of the principal canals | 243 |
An account of agricultural improvements made in | 249 |
Properties of the ellipse 256 | 256 |
PART III | 63 |
To measure and plan reads rivers canals | 83 |
To reduce statutemeasure to customary and vice | 92 |
To survey and plan Estates or Lordships | 94 |
A Book of Dimensions Castings c belonging | 104 |
SECTION II | 117 |
A Table of solid measure | 124 |
cone | 130 |
or globe | 138 |
To find the solidity of an irregular solid | 145 |
To find a mean proportional between two numbers | 152 |
A Table for measuring timber | 158 |
WorkCarpenters and Joiners | 175 |
Pavers | 194 |
To find the length of a hyperbolic curve | 262 |
To find the area of a hyperbola | 263 |
the solidity of a parabolic spindle | 270 |
Tables of Wine and Spirit Measure | 276 |
The method of finding the multipliers divisors | 283 |
To find the content of a vessel in the form of a pris | 289 |
CASK GAUGING | 304 |
The method of computing distances by the velocity | 318 |
Trigonometry applied in ascertaining the heights | 344 |
369 | 369 |
The measurement of an arc of the meridian | 377 |
curvature | 389 |
QUESTIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE PUPIL | 434 |
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