The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ... (1802)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Lee, Marvin, former owner. DSI, Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · [Salem] : Printed at Newburyport, Mass., 1802, by Edmund M. Blunt, for Cushing and Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship- chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West Indies · leaf 46
be with the other the cir=■cle ABD ; through D and C draw the diameterDCA meeting rhe circle in A j join B and Aand it is done ; for B A will be the required line(by Art. 44, GeomJ Or thus,Take.any convenient diftance as DA in yourcompafles, and with one foot in D defcribe thearch AFG, upon v/hich… … 4* GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS* PROBLEM IV.From a given. Point, as C, to let full a Perpendicular CO on a given Right Line AB. Take any extent in your compares greater {% than the leaft diftance between C and the giv-en line AB ; with one foot in C, defcribe anarch to cut the given line AB in F and G ;…
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