Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 7. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 635
... distances may be formed with greater accuracy than otherwife can be done . In confequence of this improvement , the fundamental bafe of their operations was much longer than that made ufe of by Snellius or Ricciolus . The distance ...
... distances may be formed with greater accuracy than otherwife can be done . In confequence of this improvement , the fundamental bafe of their operations was much longer than that made ufe of by Snellius or Ricciolus . The distance ...
Page 672
... distance of the observator from the height , as BE , be fuch , that when the inftrument is directed as formerly toward the fummit A , the perpendicular falls on the angle P , oppofite to H , the centre of the inftrument , and BE or CG ...
... distance of the observator from the height , as BE , be fuch , that when the inftrument is directed as formerly toward the fummit A , the perpendicular falls on the angle P , oppofite to H , the centre of the inftrument , and BE or CG ...
Page 675
... distance of the station C and ngles . D ; therefore ( by the firft cafe of oblique - angled tri- angles in trigonometry ) the fide AC will be found . Wherefore , in the right - angled triangle ABC , all the angles and the hypothenufe AC ...
... distance of the station C and ngles . D ; therefore ( by the firft cafe of oblique - angled tri- angles in trigonometry ) the fide AC will be found . Wherefore , in the right - angled triangle ABC , all the angles and the hypothenufe AC ...
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