Practical Astronomy and Geodesy: Including the Projections of the Sphere and Spherical Trigonometry. For the Use of the Royal Military College

John Narrien

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 - Geodesy - 427 pages

Contents

• THE EARTH PHENOMENA OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES: 1
• Ancient method of finding the magnitude of the earth: 8
• it in one of its diameters: 14
• Prop XI To find the poles of a given projected small: 26
• Art Page: 34
• Prop XVI To measure an arc of a projected great circle: 41
• Prop III To express one of the sides of a spherical tri: 48
• Art Page: 56
• Determination of the value of its scale by a terrestrial object: 62
• Description of the spirit level and the manner of using it: 68
• Employment of the instrument in finding differences: 70
• Manner of using the instrument in observing altitudes: 77
• values of the constant according: 83
• Method of ascertaining that the meridional wire and those: 89
• Investigation of a formula for finding the azimuthal deviation: 95
• Manner of observing horizontal and oblique angles: 97
• Formula for obtaining the correction of a stars observed: 101
• Reflecting circles having the property of repetition: 103
• Description of the zenith sector: 107
• 148: 111
• Method of determining the error of collimation: 113
• The suns declination goes through its changes during a year: 129
• CHAP VII: 135
• Coefficient of refraction from experiments on the refractive: 143
• CHAP VIII: 152
• 196: 154
• The sectoral areas described in equal times in a circle and: 163
• THE ORBIT OF THE MOON: 164
• Manner of finding the declinations of celestial bodies by: 167
• The moons movements subject to considerable inequalities: 170
• cension: 176
• Art Page: 177
• The diurnal aberration of light: 183
• CHAP XI: 189
• The length of the anomalistic year: 199
• Investigation of the true in terms of the excentric anomaly 158: 205
• Art Page: 209
• Manner of determining the same elements from observations: 212
• Method of finding the geocentric longitude and latitude of: 215
• Certain stars have proper motions: 221
• The parallaxes of the fixed stars uncertain: 227
• Investigation of the parallax in a line joining the two which: 231
• Discovery of the aberration of light: 233
• Reduction of sidereal time at Greenwich mean noon: 238
• element: 251
• The instant of witnessing a phenomenon uncertain: 253
• horizon: 257
• Time in which the radius vector of a parabola describes about: 267
• The satellites of Jupiter and Saturn revolve about their: 273
• Prob V Having the latitude of a station the day of: 281
• The nature and use of proportional logarithms: 314
• CHAP XVII: 324
• Theorem of Legendre for computing the sides of terres: 325
• Importance of celestial observations at: 331
• Prob II To find the hour of the day by an observed: 337
• The instants of ingress and egress being given to compute: 338
• Use of observed eclipses of the: 345
• Prob VII To find the latitude of a station by means of: 350
• Prob VIII To find the latitude of a station having the: 354
• Formula for the reduction of a spherical arc to its chord: 364
• Method of reducing computed portions of the meridian: 372
• Brief outline of the method of conducting a geodetical survey: 374
• Proof from the lengths of the degrees of latitude that: 378
• Prop III To investigate the radius of curvature for: 385
• Art Page: 390
• Details of the process employed in measuring a base: 391
• Prob III To determine the positions of two objects with: 398
• Nature of mountain barometers Formula for finding: 404
• Prop II To correct the length of a pendulum on account: 409
• The horizontal force and vertical force magnetometer For: 416
• Manner of expressing the intensity of terrestrial magnetism: 423

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Practical Astronomy and Geodesy: Including the Projections of the Sphere and Spherical Trigonometry. For the Use of the Royal Military College; Sandhurst College text books
• Author: John Narrien
• Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2006
• Length: 427 pages