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... measure the heavens and the earth , estimate 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 , estimate 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 fhould 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 fhould 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 of extenfions , yet there are fome things in this bufinefs which are too fimple for it , as well as fome others which rife above its reach : thus , the method of fluxions cannot determine the measure of a rect- angle , that ...
... measure of extenfions , yet there are fome things in this bufinefs which are too fimple for it , as well as fome others which rife above its reach : thus , the method of fluxions cannot determine the measure of a rect- angle , that ...
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... measure of right lines ; and in the fecond part , only of the measure of planes which are bounded by right and circular lines , without any curve furfaces , excepting that of the fphere . In the third part , which treats of folids , I ...
... measure of right lines ; and in the fecond part , only of the measure of planes which are bounded by right and circular lines , without any curve furfaces , excepting that of the fphere . In the third part , which treats of folids , I ...
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Page 535 - ... being entirely dependent on them, and therefore they should be taken of as great length as possible ; and it is best for them to run along some of the hedges or boundaries of one or more fields, or to pass through some of their angles. All things being determined for these stations, you must take more inner stations, and continue to divide and subdivide, till at last you come to single fields ; repeating the same work for the inner stations as for the outer ones, till the whole is finished.
Page 91 - The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Given R a rectangle with base b and altitude a. To prove R = a X b. Proof. Let U be the unit of surface. .R axb U' Then 1x1 But - is the area of R.
Page 2 - A Right Angle is that which is made by one line perpendicular to another. Or when the angles on each side are equal to one another, they are right angles.
Page 614 - ... for the double row of slates at the bottom, or for how much one row of slates or tiles is laid over another. When the roof is of a true pitch, that is, forming a right angle at top ; then the breadth of the building, with its half added, is the girt over both sides nearly.
Page 617 - The length of a room being 20 feet, its breadth 14 feet 6 inches, and height 10 feet 4 inches ; how many yards of painting are in it, deducting a...
Page 6 - A quadrant, or quarter of a circle, is a sector, having a quarter of the circumference for its arc, and the two radii are perpendicular to each other, as G.
Page 608 - Chimneys are commonly measured as if they were solid, deducting only the vacuity from the hearth to the mantle, on account of the trouble of them. All windows, doors, &c, are to be deducted out of the contents of the walls in which they are placed.
Page 62 - From the edge of a ditch 18 feet wide, surrounding a fort, I took the angle of elevation of the top of the wall and found it 62° 40...
Page 7 - The Measure of an angle, is an arc of any circle contained between the two lines which form that angle, the angular point being the centre ; and it is estimated by the number of degrees contained in that arc.
Page 461 - Ans. the upper part 13'867. the middle part 3 '605. the lower part 2-528. QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditch that goes round it : to what depth must the ditch be dug, supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet i Ans. 7f-| feet. QUEST. 49. How high above the earth must a person be raised, that he may see j. of its surface ? Ans. to the height of the earth's diameter.