A Treatise on Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical: With Its Application to Navigation and Surveying, Nautical and Practical Astronomy and Geodesy : with Logarithmic, Trigonometrical, and Nautical Tables, for the Use of Schools and Colleges |
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... altitudes , by the method of Littrow , and by an altitude of the pole star out of the meridian . Part VI . contains the necessary instruction for conducting a geodetic survey on a scale of sufficient magnitude to require not merely the ...
... altitudes , by the method of Littrow , and by an altitude of the pole star out of the meridian . Part VI . contains the necessary instruction for conducting a geodetic survey on a scale of sufficient magnitude to require not merely the ...
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... altitude , a table of proportional logarithms , a table of the reductions of the moon's equatorial parallax for the spheroidal figure of the earth , and finally a table of natural versed sines for reducing observations to the meridian ...
... altitude , a table of proportional logarithms , a table of the reductions of the moon's equatorial parallax for the spheroidal figure of the earth , and finally a table of natural versed sines for reducing observations to the meridian ...
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... altitude of a star , Reduction of time of transit over any wire to time over imaginary middle ib . 152 wire ,. ib . Example of this reduction , 154 Demonstration of formula for determining the inclination of the axis , ib . Mode of ...
... altitude of a star , Reduction of time of transit over any wire to time over imaginary middle ib . 152 wire ,. ib . Example of this reduction , 154 Demonstration of formula for determining the inclination of the axis , ib . Mode of ...
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... altitude , ib . DETERMINATION OF THE LATITUDE AT SEA BY MERIDIAN ALTITUDE , 279 Example and exercises , 281 Determination of the time of the moon's meridian passage , 282 Determination of the latitude by two altitudes , . 283 Example ...
... altitude , ib . DETERMINATION OF THE LATITUDE AT SEA BY MERIDIAN ALTITUDE , 279 Example and exercises , 281 Determination of the time of the moon's meridian passage , 282 Determination of the latitude by two altitudes , . 283 Example ...
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... altitude , ' . Ā· Method when the latitude is approximately known , Latitude by circum - meridian altitudes , Use of one of Bowditch's tables , and tables of versed sines , Example of circum - meridian altitudes with repeating circle ...
... altitude , ' . Ā· Method when the latitude is approximately known , Latitude by circum - meridian altitudes , Use of one of Bowditch's tables , and tables of versed sines , Example of circum - meridian altitudes with repeating circle ...
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A.M. Hour P.M. altitude azimuth centre circle colatitude collimation column comp cosĀ² cosc Cosecant Cotangent Diff Cotangent Secant course decimal declination departure determined diagram difference of latitude difference of longitude distance divided equal equation error EXAMPLE expressed feet formula Geom given number hence horizontal Hour A.M. Cosine Hour A.M. Hour hour angle hypothenuse instrument Logarithms of Numbers longitude meridian miles multiplied Napier's rules Natural Sines Nautical Almanac negative number of degrees observed obtained parallel parallel sailing perpendicular plane sailing plane triangle Prop proportion quadrant quotient radius right angled triangle right ascension sailed screw second member ship side opposite siderial sin a cos sin a sin sinĀ² sine and cosine solution sphere spherical triangle spherical trigonometry spirit level star subtracting supporting axis TABLE XXVII tangent telescope transit trigonometrical lines vertical zenith