The elements of navigation : containing the theory and practice, with all the necessary tables, to which is added, a treatise of marine fortification ... (1754)
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776, Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886, former owner. BRL, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL · London : Printed for J. Nourse ... · leaf 164
8. SPHERICS. 141 … 4.88. THEOREM XL In every fphcric triangle (aec), if the angles adjacent to either fide (ab)ft alike, then a perpendicular (cd) drawn to that fide from the other angle,mil fall within the triangle : But the perpendicular (cd) falls without thevriangle, when the angles adjacent to the fide (ab) it…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-66-43.webp)
