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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Page vii
... meridian . Besides these , other small tables and specimens of tables are scattered throughout the work . Most of the tables are printed from the beautiful and accurate stereotype plates of the tables accompanying Bowditch's Navigator ...
... meridian . Besides these , other small tables and specimens of tables are scattered throughout the work . Most of the tables are printed from the beautiful and accurate stereotype plates of the tables accompanying Bowditch's Navigator ...
Page xiii
... meridian , 66 66 observing a meridian transit , 149 150 ib . Mode of applying electro - magnetism to record the observation ,. Rules for determining the meridian altitude of a star , Reduction of time of transit over any wire to time ...
... meridian , 66 66 observing a meridian transit , 149 150 ib . Mode of applying electro - magnetism to record the observation ,. Rules for determining the meridian altitude of a star , Reduction of time of transit over any wire to time ...
Page xvi
... 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 , 285 ON FINDING The Longitude , 287 heavenly body ...
... 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 , 285 ON FINDING The Longitude , 287 heavenly body ...
Page xvii
... meridian altitudes , Use of one of Bowditch's tables , and tables of versed sines , Example of circum - meridian altitudes with repeating circle , Method of Littrow by three altitudes near the meridian , Latitude by an altitude of the ...
... meridian altitudes , Use of one of Bowditch's tables , and tables of versed sines , Example of circum - meridian altitudes with repeating circle , Method of Littrow by three altitudes near the meridian , Latitude by an altitude of the ...
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... meridian , 343 Ā· 344 General formula , including all the corrections , Example and form used in the U. S. Coast Survey , Longitude by celestial observations , 345 346 348 " by moon culminations , ib . Example , 349 By difference in time ...
... meridian , 343 Ā· 344 General formula , including all the corrections , Example and form used in the U. S. Coast Survey , Longitude by celestial observations , 345 346 348 " by moon culminations , ib . Example , 349 By difference in time ...
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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