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A

SYSTEM

OF THE

MATHEMATICS

CONTAINING

The EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, Plane and Spherical
TRIGONOMETRY; the Projection of the SPHERE, both
Orthographic and Stereographic, ASTRONOMY, the
USE of the GLOBES and NAVIGATION:

The Manner of Computing the APPULSES of the Moon to
the Fixed Stars, and their Occultations by the Interpofition of
Her Body, very useful for determining the Difference of Longitude
between Places. With an Account of the feveral METHODS
Proposed and made Ufe of, by the most celebrated Aftronomers
for afcertaining the fame.

New SOLAR TABLES, with their Construction and Ufe. Tables
of the Sun's Place, Right Afcenfion, Declination, Equation of Natural
Days for every Four Years; with Tables of Variation to make them
ferve for a Hundred Years to come; and a Catalogue of the Right Afcenfions,
Declmations, &c. of the most Eminent Fixed Stars: Deduced from the
FLAMSTEDIAN OBSERVATION S.

The Conftruction of the Meridional Parts, Logarithms, Sines, Tangents
and Secants, both Natural and Artificial, by the NEWTONIAN SERIES.
With an Account of the Cycles, Periods, Epoch's, Epa&ts, Kalendars, &c.

ALSO

A TABLE of Meridional Parts for every Degree and Minute
of Latitude to the Ten Thoufandth Place in Decimals, calculated de Novo.
Together with a Large and very Ufeful TABLE of the Latitudes
and Longitudes of Places; the whole being defigned for the Ufe of the
MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL, founded by King CHARLES II.

VOL. II.

By JAMES HODGSON,
Mafter of the Royal Mathematical School in Chrift's Hofpital,
and Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY.

London: Printed for THOMAS PAGE, WILLIAM and
FISHER MOUNT, at the Poftern on Tower-Hill. 1723.

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Right Worshipful Sir Francis Forbes, K. ALDERMAN, PRESIDENT.

THE

Right Worshipful Sir George Mertins, K. ALDERMAN, TREASURER,

And the rest of the Worshipful

GOVERNOURS

OF

Christ's Hofpital, London;

This SECOND VOLUME of the SYSTEM of the MATHEMATICS, defigned for the Ufe of the Royal Mathematical School,

As a grateful Acknowledgment of the many Favours received, is most humbly Dedicated,

By Your Worships most Humble and`

Moft Obedient SERVANT,

James Hodgson.

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