A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 648
lied, by a projectionin piano, the degrees of longitude oughtto be increafed or diminifhed in the fameratio; for otherwiie fhe true bearings anddiftances of places will be loft, as in thecafe of the plain-chart, where the degreesof latitude and longitude are all equal.Though this projection is… … > ■ I~}/>>/• •)i,u(n v* C H A [ 5* 1 C H A IhUrging the meridian l!n?, by a conti-nued addition of-fecants : hut neither ofthefe gentlemen is thought the originalauthor of it, is being hinted by Ptolemyabout two thou fan d years ago.The manner ofconftrufling this projcSIion.Let AS (plate…
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