A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and PracticeSaint, 1770 - 646 pages |
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... breadth : And on this account those fluxionists who , in their chapter of quadratures , attempt to determine the measure of a rectangle , argue in a circle , or deduce as a conclufion what was necessarily fuppofed in the premises . The ...
... breadth : And on this account those fluxionists who , in their chapter of quadratures , attempt to determine the measure of a rectangle , argue in a circle , or deduce as a conclufion what was necessarily fuppofed in the premises . The ...
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... breadth , and is denoted c by a ftroke , as AB or CD . every part of a line be directed towards the fame place , it is called a right line , as AB ; and if the parts continually vary their directions , it is a curve line , as CD . An ...
... breadth , and is denoted c by a ftroke , as AB or CD . every part of a line be directed towards the fame place , it is called a right line , as AB ; and if the parts continually vary their directions , it is a curve line , as CD . An ...
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... breadth . A plane , or plane fuperficies , is that with which a right line may , every way , coincide . A plane fuperficies receives feveral denominations according to the number and pofitions of the lines by which it is terminated , as ...
... breadth . A plane , or plane fuperficies , is that with which a right line may , every way , coincide . A plane fuperficies receives feveral denominations according to the number and pofitions of the lines by which it is terminated , as ...
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... breadth of a river , I mea- fured 100 yards in a ftreight line close by one fide of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles fubtended by the other end and a tree clofe by the other fide of the river , to be 53 ° and 79 ° 12 ...
... breadth of a river , I mea- fured 100 yards in a ftreight line close by one fide of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles fubtended by the other end and a tree clofe by the other fide of the river , to be 53 ° and 79 ° 12 ...
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... breadth of a river , or my distance from an inacceffible object O , and that I have no inftrument for taking angles , but only a chain or chord for measuring distances ; and fup- pofe that from each of the two ftations A , B , which are ...
... breadth of a river , or my distance from an inacceffible object O , and that I have no inftrument for taking angles , but only a chain or chord for measuring distances ; and fup- pofe that from each of the two ftations A , B , which are ...
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