The Projection and Calculation of the Sphere for Young Sea Officers Being a Complete Initiation Into Nautical Astronomy

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Longmans, Green, 1861 - 112 Seiten

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Seite 16 - The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles.
Seite 18 - IN a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle to the base, the triangles on each side of it are similar to the whole triangle, and to one another.
Seite 16 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Seite 17 - IF two straight lines cut one another, the vertical, or opposite, angles shall be equal.
Seite 20 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Seite 18 - The greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side, or has the greater side opposite to it.
Seite 19 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference, upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Seite 60 - As any one side, Is to the sine of its opposite angle ; So is any other side, To the sine of its opposite angle.
Seite 82 - The sine of half the sum of two angles of a spherical triangle is 'to the sine of half their difference as the tangent of half the included side is to the tangent of half the difference of the other two sides.
Seite 6 - Fig. 23 (A to B, B to C, C to D and D to E).

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