A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and PracticeSaint, 1770 - 646 pages |
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Page xxi
... fix- ing the limits of poffeffions ) though the name seemed very ridiculous to Plato , who substitutes in its place that more extensive name of Metrics or Menfuration ; and others after him give it the title of Pantometry , because it ...
... fix- ing the limits of poffeffions ) though the name seemed very ridiculous to Plato , who substitutes in its place that more extensive name of Metrics or Menfuration ; and others after him give it the title of Pantometry , because it ...
Page 5
... fix , a heptagon of feven , an octagon of eight , a nonagon of nine , a decagon of ten , an undecagon of eleven , and a duodecagon of twelve . Pentagon Hexagon Heptagon Octagon Nonagon Decagon Undecagon Duodecagon If the angles , and of ...
... fix , a heptagon of feven , an octagon of eight , a nonagon of nine , a decagon of ten , an undecagon of eleven , and a duodecagon of twelve . Pentagon Hexagon Heptagon Octagon Nonagon Decagon Undecagon Duodecagon If the angles , and of ...
Page 34
... fixed perpendicularly upon one of the radiufes . To take an angle of altitude and depreffion with the quadrant . Let ... Fix the center of the quadrant in the angular point , and move it round there as a center till with one eye ( the ...
... fixed perpendicularly upon one of the radiufes . To take an angle of altitude and depreffion with the quadrant . Let ... Fix the center of the quadrant in the angular point , and move it round there as a center till with one eye ( the ...
Page 35
... fixed five feet above the ground ; required the height of the tower . Rad . 10'0000000 Tan.LD 47 ° 3010 * 0379475 So BC 100 2 ° 0000000 To CE 109 13 20379475 5 11413 E A Or , Or , without the logarithms , As I ( rad Sect . III . 35 ...
... fixed five feet above the ground ; required the height of the tower . Rad . 10'0000000 Tan.LD 47 ° 3010 * 0379475 So BC 100 2 ° 0000000 To CE 109 13 20379475 5 11413 E A Or , Or , without the logarithms , As I ( rad Sect . III . 35 ...
Page 55
... fix a stick CD , equal , in length , to the height of his eye , perpendicularly at C , by trials , at fuch a distance from A , that having laid him- felf upon his back , with his feet against the bottom of the E D. Α ftick , ftick , he ...
... fix a stick CD , equal , in length , to the height of his eye , perpendicularly at C , by trials , at fuch a distance from A , that having laid him- felf upon his back , with his feet against the bottom of the E D. Α ftick , ftick , he ...
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