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... Use in measuring Heights and Distances of Places , fur- veying of Counties , Sea - Coafts , & c . BY BENJAMIN DON N , Teacher of the Mathematics , and Lecturer in experimental Philofophy , Author of the Effays on Arithmetic , Book ...
... Use in measuring Heights and Distances of Places , fur- veying of Counties , Sea - Coafts , & c . BY BENJAMIN DON N , Teacher of the Mathematics , and Lecturer in experimental Philofophy , Author of the Effays on Arithmetic , Book ...
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... use- ful Difcoveries in the Art of Numbers : For , as Dr. Keil juftly observes , " It is by their Means " that Numbers almoft infinite , and fuch as " are otherwife impracticable , are managed " with ease and expedition . By their ...
... use- ful Difcoveries in the Art of Numbers : For , as Dr. Keil juftly observes , " It is by their Means " that Numbers almoft infinite , and fuch as " are otherwife impracticable , are managed " with ease and expedition . By their ...
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... Use of thofe artificial Numbers , which Mathemati- cians distinguish by the Name of Logarithms . But here , ( as it frequently happens in other Sciences , ) a clear , accurate , etymological Senfe , cannot be under- ftood , till we have ...
... Use of thofe artificial Numbers , which Mathemati- cians distinguish by the Name of Logarithms . But here , ( as it frequently happens in other Sciences , ) a clear , accurate , etymological Senfe , cannot be under- ftood , till we have ...
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... Use in Life . Gellius reports , that by his Contri- vance a wooden Pigeon was made to fly ; he being followed therein by Dadalus and others , yielded Matter to the Poets for Fables . Neo- clides is famous on Account of his Scholar Leon ...
... Use in Life . Gellius reports , that by his Contri- vance a wooden Pigeon was made to fly ; he being followed therein by Dadalus and others , yielded Matter to the Poets for Fables . Neo- clides is famous on Account of his Scholar Leon ...
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... use of in this ESSAY , is the fynthetick , that it might be understood inde- pendent of Algebra , and make the Reader ac- quainted with the ancient Method of Reafon- ing , which hath been always juftly admired for its Accuracy . As ...
... use of in this ESSAY , is the fynthetick , that it might be understood inde- pendent of Algebra , and make the Reader ac- quainted with the ancient Method of Reafon- ing , which hath been always juftly admired for its Accuracy . As ...
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Page 29 - The lines do not run in a uniform direction from the left to the right, or from the right to the left...
Page 106 - AB, remains the same as it was : Nor is it part of the length of the line AB ; for, if AB be removed from the line KB, the point B, which is the extremity of the line KB, does...
Page 120 - If a point be taken within a circle, from which there fall more than two equal straight lines to the circumference, that point is the centre of the circle. Let...
Page 15 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, and the sides about the equal angles proportionals, the triangles shall be equiangular, and shall have those angles equal which are opposite to the homologous sides.
Page 43 - ... magnitude. For example, if A, B, C, D be four magnitudes of the same kind, the first A is said to have to the last D the ratio compounded of the ratio of A to B, and of the ratio of B to C, and of the ratio of C to D; or, the ratio of A to D is said to be compounded of the ratios of A to B, B to C, and C to D. And if...
Page 106 - It is necessary to consider a solid, that is, a magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness, in order to understand aright the definitions of a point, line and superficies ; for these all arise from a solid, and exist in it ; The boundary, or boundaries which contain a solid, are called superficies, or the boundary which is common to two solids which are contiguous, or which divides one solid into two contiguous parts, is called a superficies...
Page 43 - When three magnitudes are proportionals, the first is said to have to the third the duplicate ratio of that which it has to the second.
Page 64 - ... is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and fourteen seconds, would be written 10° 18
Page 18 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 106 - KBCL which is contiguous to it, this boundary BC is called a line, and has no breadth : For if it have any, this...