 | Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 534 pages
...printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to refolve all the cafes of Mercator's failing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of the table...only been found to be nearly true by trials, but not demonftrated to be a mathematical property. h'uch demonftration feems to have been firft difcovered... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 560 pages
...printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to refolve all the cafes of Mercator's failing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of the table...only been found to be nearly true by trials, but not demonftrated to be a mathematical property. Such demonftration feems to have been firft difcovered... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...Mcrcator's sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independently cf the table of meridional parts. Tliis analogy had only been found to be nearly true by trials,...but not demonstrated to be a mathematical property, ¿uch demonstration seems to have been first made by Mercator j who, desirous of profiting by this... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 574 pages
...printed in 1 653, where he teaches, from this property, how to resolve all the cases of Mercator's sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of...making the most advantage of this and another concealed invention of his in navigation, by a paper in the Philos. Trans, for June 4, 1666, invites the public... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...works, printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to resolve all the cases of Mercator's sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of...demonstration seems to have been first discovered by Mercator, who, desirous of making the most advantage of this and another concealed invention of his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...works, printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to resolve all the cases of Mercator's sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of...demonstration seems to have been first discovered by Mercator, who, desirous of making the most advantage of this and another concealed invention of his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...works, printed in. 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to resolve all the cases of Mercator's sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of...demonstration seems to have been first discovered by Mercator, who, desirous of making the most advantage of this and another concealed invention of his... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...Works, printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this property, to resolve all the cases of Mercator's Sailing by the logarithmic tangents, independent of...meridional parts. This analogy had only been found however to be nearly true by trials, but not demonstrated to be a mathematical property. Such demonstration,... | |
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... practice of navigation, by Henry Bond, who mentions this property in an edition of Norwood's Epitome of Navigation, printed about 1645; and he again treats of it more fully in an edition of Gunter's works, printed in 1653, where he teaches, from this... 