A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical NavigatorsT. Cadell, 1830 - 794 pages |
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... given rise to a great variety of opinions . Neither the antiquity nor the early his- tory of their office is well ascertained . Some writers seem to think that the name is of eastern origin , and borrow it from the Greek ; others from ...
... given rise to a great variety of opinions . Neither the antiquity nor the early his- tory of their office is well ascertained . Some writers seem to think that the name is of eastern origin , and borrow it from the Greek ; others from ...
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... given quan- tities , to which alone the arithmetical notation will apply , but also the unknown quantities , or such as are required to be found . The two sciences thus agreeing in the objects of which they treat , and , to a certain ...
... given quan- tities , to which alone the arithmetical notation will apply , but also the unknown quantities , or such as are required to be found . The two sciences thus agreeing in the objects of which they treat , and , to a certain ...
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... given by the boat- swain piping down the hatchway . ALL in the wind , the state of a ship's sails when they are parallel to the direction of the wind , so as to shake and shiver , by turning the ship's head to wind- ward , either by ...
... given by the boat- swain piping down the hatchway . ALL in the wind , the state of a ship's sails when they are parallel to the direction of the wind , so as to shake and shiver , by turning the ship's head to wind- ward , either by ...
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... given time . They may likewise be found by calculation , which De Lande , De la Caille , and other astronomical writers treat of at large . APOGEE , in astronomy , when applied to the sun , is that part of the earth's orbit , which is ...
... given time . They may likewise be found by calculation , which De Lande , De la Caille , and other astronomical writers treat of at large . APOGEE , in astronomy , when applied to the sun , is that part of the earth's orbit , which is ...
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... given : then say , As radius Is to the tangent of the latitude ; So is the tangent of the sun's declination To the sine of the ascensional difference sought . This , converted into time , shows how much he rises before , or sets after ...
... given : then say , As radius Is to the tangent of the latitude ; So is the tangent of the sun's declination To the sine of the ascensional difference sought . This , converted into time , shows how much he rises before , or sets after ...
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