A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice. The second edition, with many additionsG. G. J.&J. Robinson, 1788 - 16 pages |
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Page v
... measure the heavens and the earth , eftimate the capacities of all veffels , and bulks of all bodies : gauge our liquors , build edifices , measure our lands and the works of artificers , buy and fell an infinite variety of things ...
... measure the heavens and the earth , eftimate the capacities of all veffels , and bulks of all bodies : gauge our liquors , build edifices , measure our lands and the works of artificers , buy and fell an infinite variety of things ...
Page vi
... measures , he gave an excellent method of approximating to them , by fhewing how in a circle to infcribe a regular polygon , which should not touch another circle , concentric with the former , although their circumferences fhould be ...
... measures , he gave an excellent method of approximating to them , by fhewing how in a circle to infcribe a regular polygon , which should not touch another circle , concentric with the former , although their circumferences fhould be ...
Page viii
... measure and compare geometrical figures . Very little new matter , however , was added to geo- metry by this method ... measured ; and although feveral of them could not be exactly fquared or cubed , yet general and infinite ap ...
... measure and compare geometrical figures . Very little new matter , however , was added to geo- metry by this method ... measured ; and although feveral of them could not be exactly fquared or cubed , yet general and infinite ap ...
Page xi
... measure to endeavour to retrieve its reputation . The work confifts of five principal parts , each part being di- vided into feveral fections , every fection containing feveral problems or propofitions , which are all demonftrated after ...
... measure to endeavour to retrieve its reputation . The work confifts of five principal parts , each part being di- vided into feveral fections , every fection containing feveral problems or propofitions , which are all demonftrated after ...
Page xii
... measure of planes which are bounded by right and circular lines , without any curve furfaces , excepting that of the ... measuring of lines and angles . All the cafes of trigonometry , both right and oblique angled , are here reduced to ...
... measure of planes which are bounded by right and circular lines , without any curve furfaces , excepting that of the ... measuring of lines and angles . All the cafes of trigonometry , both right and oblique angled , are here reduced to ...
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