A Treatise on Surveying: Containing the Theory and Practice : to which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry : the Whole Clearly Demonstrated and Illustrated by a Large Number of Appropriate Examples, Particularly Adapted to the Use of Schools |
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... angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another , which meet together , but are not in the same ... angle is ex- pressed by three letters , whereof the middle letter shows the angular point , and the other two the lines ...
... angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another , which meet together , but are not in the same ... angle is ex- pressed by three letters , whereof the middle letter shows the angular point , and the other two the lines ...
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... angle depends on the inclina- tion which the lines that form it have to each other , and not on the length of those lines . Thus the angle DBE is greater than the angle ABC , Fig . 3 . 9. When a straight line stands on another straight ...
... angle depends on the inclina- tion which the lines that form it have to each other , and not on the length of those lines . Thus the angle DBE is greater than the angle ABC , Fig . 3 . 9. When a straight line stands on another straight ...
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... angle , as C , Fig . 10 . 20. An acute angled triangle has all its ang.es acute , as ABC , Fig . 6 . 21. Acute and obtuse angled triangles are called oblique angled triangles . 22. Any plane figure bounded by four right lines , is ...
... angle , as C , Fig . 10 . 20. An acute angled triangle has all its ang.es acute , as ABC , Fig . 6 . 21. Acute and obtuse angled triangles are called oblique angled triangles . 22. Any plane figure bounded by four right lines , is ...
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... angle ABC , and CD is the altitude . Fig . 15 . 32. All plane figures contained under more than four sides , are ... angles , as well as sides , are all equal . 34. A circle is a plane figure , bounded by one curve line called the ...
... angle ABC , and CD is the altitude . Fig . 15 . 32. All plane figures contained under more than four sides , are ... angles , as well as sides , are all equal . 34. A circle is a plane figure , bounded by one curve line called the ...
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... angle equal to a given angle A , Fig . 23 . With the centre A and any distance AE , describe the arc DE , and with the same distance and centre B de- scribe the arc FG ; make HG equal to DE , and through B and H draw the line BH ; then ...
... angle equal to a given angle A , Fig . 23 . With the centre A and any distance AE , describe the arc DE , and with the same distance and centre B de- scribe the arc FG ; make HG equal to DE , and through B and H draw the line BH ; then ...
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Page 31 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Page 40 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Page 75 - A maypole, whose top was broken off by a blast of wind, struck the ground at 15 feet distance from the foot of the pole: what was the height of the whole maypole, supposing the broken piece to measure 39 feet in length ? Ans.
Page 21 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Page 116 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram; whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides. RULE.* Multiply the length by the perpendicular height, and the product will be the area.
Page 123 - From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side severally; multiply the half sum, and the three remainders together, and the square root of the product will be the area required. Example. — Required the area of a triangle, whose sides are 50, 40, and 30 feet. 50 + 40+30 ; — 60, half the sum of the three sides.
Page 24 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Page 32 - Sine, or Right Sine, of an arc, is the line drawn from one extremity of the arc, perpendicular to the diameter which passes through the other extremity. Thus, BF is the sine of the arc AB, or of the supplemental arc BDE.
Page 22 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Page 14 - BY LOGARITHMS. RULE. From the logarithm of the dividend subtract the logarithm of the divisor, and the number answering to the remainder will be the quotient required.