| Charles Davies - Navigation - 1837 - 342 pages
...erroi is called, error in southing. We find the error for eacli particular course by the following proportion. As the sum of the courses Is to the error of latitude, So is each particular course To its correction. The error of each course, thus found, may be entered... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...the error is called, error in southing. We find the error for each particular course by the following proportion. As the sum of the courses Is to the error of latitude, So is each particular course To its correction. The error of each course, thus found, may be entered... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...the error is called, error in southing. We find the error for each particular course by the following proportion. As the sum of the courses Is to the error of latitude, So is each particular course To its correction. The error of each course, thus found, may be entered... | |
| Charles Davies - Navigation - 1841 - 414 pages
...the error is called, error in southing. We find the error for each particular course by the following proportion. As the sum of the courses Is to the error of latitude, So is each particular' course To its correction. The error of each course, thus found, may be entered... | |
| Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...the error is called, error in southing. We find the error for each particular course by the following proportion. As the sum of the courses Is to the error of latitude, So is each particular course To its correction. The error thus found may be entered in a separate column... | |
| Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...is equal to the double meridian distance of the preceding course, plus its de40 626 [TRE. parture, plus the departure of the course itself, having regard...the columns of latitude. And so with the departures. Let it be required to find the contents of a piece of land, of which the following are the field-notes... | |
| Henry Lee Scott - English language - 1864 - 700 pages
...of a course is tho distance of the middle part of that course from an assumed meridian. Hence, tho double meridian distance of the first course is equal...course to its correction. When a bearing is due east or vest, the error of latitude is nothing, and the course must be subtracted from the sum of the courses... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Lee - Astronomy - 1873 - 334 pages
...southing. 2.Place all the plus products in one column, and all the minus product's in another. 3.Add up each column separately, and take their difference....sum of the courses is to the error of latitude, (or de parture,) so is each particular course to its correction. When a bearing is due east or west, the... | |
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