A Mathematical Manual: Containing Tables of Logarithms for Numbers, Sines, and Tangents. With the Manifold Use Thereof Briefly Explained and Applied in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Geography, Surveying, Navigation, Dialling, Gunnery, and Gauging |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
A Mathematical Manual: Containing Tables of Logarithms for Numbers, Sines ... Henry Phillippes No preview available - 2014 |
A Mathematical Manual: Containing Tables of Logarithms for Numbers, Sines ... Henry Phillippes No preview available - 2015 |
A Mathematical Manual: Containing Tables of Logarithms for Numbers, Sines ... Henry Phillippes No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
againſt alſo Angle oppoſed Arch Aſcenſion Baſe becauſe beſt breadth Bullet Caſe caſt Circle Circumference Co-fine Compaſs Complement Coſ Coſine Cube Culverins Declination Degree deſired Dial Diameter Difference Diſtance divided dēg Eaſt elſe Example find the Angle find the Side firſt Foot Foot length Fraćtions Gallon half hath Height Hour Hour-lines Inches juſt laſt Latitude length leſs leſſer likewiſe Lēg Logarithm Longitude meaſure Meridian moſt multiply muſt neceſſary Number ē ē obſerve oppoſite Side ouſS Perpendicular Plane Poles Produćt Prop Proportion Propoſition Radius Random reſt Rule Rumb ſaid ſailed ſame ſec ſecond ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall find ſhews ſhould ſide Side B C Sine ſome ſomewhat Square ſubtract ſuch Suns Suns Declination Superficial Content ſuppoſe Table Tang Tangent Co-tang thereof thereunto theſe thoſe Timber uſe Weſt whoſe Log
Popular passages
Page 172 - The right Range of every Piece being difcharged in a Level or Parallel to the Horizon is fet down in the forgoing Table, in which the Cannon exceeds not i85 Pace:., that is 5 Fo<^< to each Pace.
Page 164 - Thirdly, Double fortified Pieces, or Extraordinary Pieces. This Fortification is reckoned by the thicknefs of the Metal at the Touch- hole, at the Trunnions, and . at the Muzzle, in proportion to the Diameter of the Bore. The Cannons double fortified...
Page 172 - Motions are confidered apart , or elfe joined together j but they are both of them fomwhat the longer, according as the Piece is mounted higher from the Level to the Angle of 45 degrees, which is the...
Page 165 - Ordnance, which will not endure fo much Powder as Brafs Guns by one Quarter. For Culverings the whole weight of their Shot for Proof...
Page 159 - Light-mark , as fhc fwims being ualaden, you fiiall have the weight or content of the empty Ship •> and if you meafure from this Light- mark to her full draught of Watet being ladehg, that will be the true Burden or Tunnageof the Ship.
Page 137 - Poles the other, What is the Content ? Multiply the length 40 by the breadth 30, it makes 1200 > which divide by 203 Д, it yields 5 Acres, 3 Roods, 23 Perches.
Page 136 - Multiply both the Perpendiculars by half the Diagonal Line, which is the common Bafe of both the Triangles, and divide by 1 60. ībiu let the t>iagettal-Kne be 40, me of the Perpendiculars 1 $,ibe other 8 } tbe/č tats added together niak...
Page 166 - Shot, that fo a third part of the Compafs may be left open, for the Powder to fall freely out of the Ladle when you turn it the bottom upwards.
Page 144 - Take the compafs thereof with a ftring,and then meaiuring the firing by your Ruler, fee how many Inches the Tree is in Compafs, and then find thofe Inches in the...
Page 167 - It is more rational and artificial to divide the Bore of the Gun into 20 equal parts, and let the Diameter of the Bulkt be i $ of thofe parts, according to which proportion the Table is calcu* latcd.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Mathematical Manual: Containing Tables of Logarithms for Numbers, Sines, and Tangents. With the Manifold Use Thereof Briefly Explained and Applied in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Geography, Surveying, Navigation, Dialling, Gunnery, and Gauging |
| Author | Henry Phillippes |
| Publisher | A. Clark, 1677 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 8, 2007 |
| Length | 201 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |