An essay on mechanical geometry, explanatory of a set of models1796 |
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... practical ufes in Navigation , Architecture , taking of Heights , Menfuration , Gauging , and Surveying . And he has enjoyed the fatisfaction of being able to render the truths he wished to communicate , quickly , and diftinctly ...
... practical ufes in Navigation , Architecture , taking of Heights , Menfuration , Gauging , and Surveying . And he has enjoyed the fatisfaction of being able to render the truths he wished to communicate , quickly , and diftinctly ...
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... practical propofition , as to draw one line perpendicular to another . A THEOREM , a fpeculative propofition , the truth of which may be de- monstrated ; as the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles , or 180 ...
... practical propofition , as to draw one line perpendicular to another . A THEOREM , a fpeculative propofition , the truth of which may be de- monstrated ; as the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles , or 180 ...
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... practical purposes . ALTIMETRY , Or taking Heights of Objects . PROBLEM 9. To find the height of an object by the fhadow of a pole ; made either by the fun or moon . Take the board , and screw on the pillar , and put one end of the ...
... practical purposes . ALTIMETRY , Or taking Heights of Objects . PROBLEM 9. To find the height of an object by the fhadow of a pole ; made either by the fun or moon . Take the board , and screw on the pillar , and put one end of the ...
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... practical menfuration ) it may be conceived to be a regular polygon of an indefinitely large number of fides ; and therefore , by the laft problem , its area may be found , by multiplying half the circumference by half the diameter ...
... practical menfuration ) it may be conceived to be a regular polygon of an indefinitely large number of fides ; and therefore , by the laft problem , its area may be found , by multiplying half the circumference by half the diameter ...
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... practical ways , fit for our prefent purpose , are , - C.47 Method 1. Measure the diameter FG at the middle of the cask , or bung ; alfo the dia- meter of the head BC ; and fubtract one from the other ; and take feven - tenths of that ...
... practical ways , fit for our prefent purpose , are , - C.47 Method 1. Measure the diameter FG at the middle of the cask , or bung ; alfo the dia- meter of the head BC ; and fubtract one from the other ; and take feven - tenths of that ...
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Seite 4 - 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.
Seite 11 - Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another.
Seite 23 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Seite 24 - If two triangles have the three sides of the one equal to the three sides of the other, each to each, the triangles are congruent.
Seite 12 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Seite 37 - A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides.
Seite 10 - POSTULATES. 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre.
Seite 65 - Multiply half the circumference by half the diameter, and the product will be the area. Or, divide the product of the whole circumference and diameter -by 4, and the quotient will be the area. 2. Multiply the square of the diameter by .7854, and the product will be the area.
Seite 84 - ... reafonable creatures •, for though we all call ourfelves fo, becaufe we are born to it if we pleafe, yet we may truly fay Nature gives us but the...
Seite 40 - SIMILAR cones and cylinders have to one another the triplicate ratio of that which the diameters of their bases have...