The Encyclopædia Britannica, Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 16. köideAdam & Charles Black, 1858 |
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... sails , rigging , & c .; by which means ships can not only sail much faster than formerly , but can tack in any direction with the greatest facility ; and of late years the extensive and still growing employment of steam as the ...
... sails , rigging , & c .; by which means ships can not only sail much faster than formerly , but can tack in any direction with the greatest facility ; and of late years the extensive and still growing employment of steam as the ...
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... sailing towards high latitudes , to keep the reckoning by the globe , as there the plane chart was most erroneous . He despaired of our ever being able to find the longitude , unless the variation of the com- pass should be occasioned ...
... sailing towards high latitudes , to keep the reckoning by the globe , as there the plane chart was most erroneous . He despaired of our ever being able to find the longitude , unless the variation of the com- pass should be occasioned ...
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... sailing upon a parallel of latitude by means of a ring dial and a twenty - four hour glass . The same year the discovery of the dipping - needle was made by Robert Norman . In his publication on that subject he maintains , in opposition ...
... sailing upon a parallel of latitude by means of a ring dial and a twenty - four hour glass . The same year the discovery of the dipping - needle was made by Robert Norman . In his publication on that subject he maintains , in opposition ...
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... sailing on a great circle , and showed how to draw the rhumbs on a globe mechanically ; he also set down Wright's two ... sail- ing on a rhumb is the proper way of performing it , Hand- son also proposes two methods of approximation ...
... sailing on a great circle , and showed how to draw the rhumbs on a globe mechanically ; he also set down Wright's two ... sail- ing on a rhumb is the proper way of performing it , Hand- son also proposes two methods of approximation ...
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... sail to places subject to these winds . After the true principles of the art were settled by Wright , Bond , and ... sailing to such a figure ; and the same year Colin Maclaurin , in the Philosophical Transactions ( No. 461 ) , gave a ...
... sail to places subject to these winds . After the true principles of the art were settled by Wright , Bond , and ... sailing to such a figure ; and the same year Colin Maclaurin , in the Philosophical Transactions ( No. 461 ) , gave a ...
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