The practice of navigation and nautical astronomy. [With] Tables [and] Supplement to the first ed, Nide 261870 |
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... latitude and longitude on shore . The present volume , which is devoted exclusively to the PRAC- TICE , contains all the rules and tables necessary in navigation , and for the determination of latitude and longitude by means of the ...
... latitude and longitude on shore . The present volume , which is devoted exclusively to the PRAC- TICE , contains all the rules and tables necessary in navigation , and for the determination of latitude and longitude by means of the ...
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... latitude at sea , by the reduction of an altitude to the meridian , will be found greatly abridged ; and a table is added for the purpose of shewing the limits within which the result may be depended upon when the time at ship is in ...
... latitude at sea , by the reduction of an altitude to the meridian , will be found greatly abridged ; and a table is added for the purpose of shewing the limits within which the result may be depended upon when the time at ship is in ...
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... latitude by meridian altitude . The principle is not new , but rules have not hitherto been given for computing directly the error of the latitude by account . The first approximate method of clearing the lunar distance is new , being ...
... latitude by meridian altitude . The principle is not new , but rules have not hitherto been given for computing directly the error of the latitude by account . The first approximate method of clearing the lunar distance is new , being ...
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Henry Raper. LATITUDE . TABLE 47. Limits of the Reduction to the Meridian at Sea .. 642 48. Value of the Reduction at which ... Latitude 647 53. Correction of the Lunar Distance for the Con- traction of the Vertical Semidiameter .... 647 ...
Henry Raper. LATITUDE . TABLE 47. Limits of the Reduction to the Meridian at Sea .. 642 48. Value of the Reduction at which ... Latitude 647 53. Correction of the Lunar Distance for the Con- traction of the Vertical Semidiameter .... 647 ...
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... latitude of the place . Now the latitude will often , and the declination sometimes , be correctly known , but the altitude can never , from various causes , be exempt from suspicion of inaccuracy ; besides , in general , an error of ...
... latitude of the place . Now the latitude will often , and the declination sometimes , be correctly known , but the altitude can never , from various causes , be exempt from suspicion of inaccuracy ; besides , in general , an error of ...
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Sivu 41 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle ; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Sivu 147 - Since the apparent altitude is too great on account of refraction, and too small on account of parallax, the diff. between these quantities is the diff. between the true and apparent altitudes. This difference, or the combined effect of parallax and refraction, is called the Correction of Altitude. The moon's Corr. of Alt. is given in Table 39; that of a star is merely its refraction. 439. The SEMI-DIAMETER of a celestial body is half the angle subtended by the diameter of the visible disc. Thus...
Sivu 38 - A parallelogram is a four.sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel; and the diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles.
Sivu 19 - The characteristic of a number less than 1 is found by subtracting from 9 the number of ciphers between the decimal point and the first significant digit, and writing — 10 after the result.
Sivu 43 - ... section shall be parallel to the remaining side of the triangle. Let DE be drawn parallel to BC, one of the sides of the triangle ABC: then BD shall be to DA, as CE to EA. Join BE, CD; then the triangle BDE is equal...
Sivu 105 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Sivu 186 - A line drawn from Polaris perpendicular to the line of the Pointers, and on the opposite side to the Great Bear, passes, at 48° distance, through CAPELLA, one of the brightest stars. In this same line, about the same distance on the opposite side of the pole, is a.
Sivu 145 - ... of Altitude are circles parallel to the horizon. 431. ZENITH DISTANCE is the arc included between the zenith and the celestial body, or the angular distance of a body from the zenith of which that arc is the measure. The zenith distance is, therefore, the complement of the altitude to 90°, as Z A.
Sivu 4 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
Sivu 358 - Frigate La Venus, 1836-9, vol. iii. p. 419) paid particular attention to this indication, and remarks that the observations generally shew a lowering of the thermometer on approaching land, but they disprove that the water on a bank is always colder.* 1039. The temperature of the sea has been observed to change several degrees, in intervals of time varying from a few hours to a day and a half previous to a change of wind, the water becoming gradually warmer when the wind was about to blow from a...