A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and PracticeSaint, 1770 - 646 pages |
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... divided , the fame feries very rarely including them both : the mathematicians in most parts of Europe were now bufy , and many series were affigned on all hands , fome admired for their fimplicity , and others for their rate of conver ...
... divided , the fame feries very rarely including them both : the mathematicians in most parts of Europe were now bufy , and many series were affigned on all hands , fome admired for their fimplicity , and others for their rate of conver ...
Page xxi
... divided into five principal parts , each part be- ing cut into several sections , each of which sections contains several problems or propofitions . The problems and propofitions are all demonstrated after the fimpleft and shortest ...
... divided into five principal parts , each part be- ing cut into several sections , each of which sections contains several problems or propofitions . The problems and propofitions are all demonstrated after the fimpleft and shortest ...
Page xxiii
... divided into 3 fections . Seft . 1. Contains fome geometrical definitions and problems . Some of the definitions are new , and , it is prefumed , more compleat and lefs exceptionable than those instead of which they have been sub ...
... divided into 3 fections . Seft . 1. Contains fome geometrical definitions and problems . Some of the definitions are new , and , it is prefumed , more compleat and lefs exceptionable than those instead of which they have been sub ...
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... divided into 360 equal parts , called degrees ; of which , therefore , a femicircle contains 180 , and a quadrant 90. Each degree is fuppofed to be divided into 60 equal parts , called minutes , and each minute into 60 feconds , & c ...
... divided into 360 equal parts , called degrees ; of which , therefore , a femicircle contains 180 , and a quadrant 90. Each degree is fuppofed to be divided into 60 equal parts , called minutes , and each minute into 60 feconds , & c ...
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... divided into degrees and minutes , and furnished with a plummet fufpended from the center , and two fights fixed perpendicularly upon one of the radiufes . To take an angle of altitude and depreffion with the quadrant . Let A be any ...
... divided into degrees and minutes , and furnished with a plummet fufpended from the center , and two fights fixed perpendicularly upon one of the radiufes . To take an angle of altitude and depreffion with the quadrant . Let A be any ...
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