After some remarkable publications upon the trigonometrical junction of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
Santobong peak is 2050 feet, or thereabouts, by a rough trigonometrical measurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
He wrote a treatise in twelve Books on Chords in a Circle, equivalent to a table of trigonometrical sines. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The force required to move the thing up a slope is directly proportional not to the angle, but to the trigonometrical sine of that angle. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
The effect of Aristarchus's geometry is to find arithmetical limits to the values of what are really trigonometrical ratios of certain small angles, namely. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Where, for example, are the results of the great surveys, trigonometrical and others, which were commenced in Yezo and the main island about ten years ago?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
There are already well-known trigonometrical formulæ for calculating all these elements, if all the observations are good; but at Upsala they do far more. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
Fig. 3 shows the different geometrical and trigonometrical elements of the curve, which can be read upon the various scales, or to which the instrument may be set. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference
The length of each of these lines is mathematically the same, for they have been determined with as much accuracy as the base of the first triangle in a trigonometrical survey. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
As a result of elaborate trigonometrical calculations it was ascertained that the airship attained an independent speed of 30 feet per second, which exceeded anything previously achieved. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
I availed myself of trigonometrical measurements also with. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Russegger, and by the trigonometrical survey of Lieutenant Symond, of the. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
A few trigonometrical data, chiefly of positions around Dorjiling, measured by. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
Surveying and building trigonometrical station on a light-coloured hill to the south of this. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference
Seaton threw down the papers and picked up his slide-rule, a twenty-inch trigonometrical duplex. From Wordnik.com. [Skylark Three] Reference
A mathematician will draw you a triangle and a circle, and show you the trigonometrical science latent therein. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
I feel myself becoming a personification of Algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
Beer and Mädler began at Berlin in 1830 their great trigonometrical survey of the lunar surface, as yet neither revised nor superseded. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Gallwey, and to these two gentlemen the public are indebted for the greater portion of the field-work and the trigonometrical operations. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
This can be compared with the actual distance in miles between the two stations, which has been ascertained by the trigonometrical survey. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
Cristoval, is, according to trigonometrical measurements, made in 1737, by Don Jorge Juon, and De la Condamines, 312 varas higher than the Plaza. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
After the restoration of peace he had for some time been engaged in making a trigonometrical survey of the island of Lampedoza, in the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
The next morning we met and passed a Government Survey party, under the command of Mr. Brooks, who was engaged in a very extensive trigonometrical survey. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
The native watched the commencement of Flinders 'trigonometrical operations, "with indifference, if not contempt," and after a little while left the party. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
D. Traill, who took a comprehensive and trigonometrical survey of the field of literature wrote in 1897: Time has been swift of despatch in the case of Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
In 1785 he made a second ascent, when trigonometrical observations of the height of the balloon were made from the French coast, giving an altitude of 4,800 feet. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
The longitude of this point as now ascertained by trigonometrical measurement from Parramatta was 147 degrees 33 minutes 50 seconds East, or 17 minutes 50 seconds. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Sikkim Himalaya has, I believe, been connected with Calcutta by the great trigonometrical survey, but I am given to understand that the results are not published. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
I was going to complain of the abrupt way in which he had treated me, but I had the necessities of our trigonometrical operations before my eyes, and I was silent. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference
We have, for the first time, in that school, a combined system of observations made with instruments for the measurement of angles, and calculated by trigonometrical methods. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict between Religion and Science] Reference
Sea, of the coasts of which this skilful and enterprising seaman made a cursory survey, from which emanated the subsequent trigonometrical operations which form our present maps. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
(950-1009) was known for his accurate trigonometrical and astronomical tables. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
A combined system of observations made with instruments for the measurement of angles, and calculated by trigonometrical methods. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
While executing a trigonometrical survey (the first attempted) of the disc, then of the unusual size of 25 "across, G. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
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