A synopsis of practical mathematics : containing plain trigonometry: mensuration of heights, distances, surfaces, and solids. Surveying of land, gauging, navigation, and gunnery. With tables of the logarithms of numbers and of sines and tangents / by Alexander Ewing.
Edition:
2d ed.
Publisher:
Printed for T. CadellLondon, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh,
Copyright Date:
1779
Description:
vii, 266, [155] p., 5 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
"For the use of schools and men of business" Horizontal chain lines. Includes: "A table of the logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 10,000" and "A table of difference of latitude and departure to every degree and quarter point of the compass." Library's copy has spine title in gold on red background.
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