Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814

CONTAINING	1

To measure a degree of a great circle of	38

To determine the length of a degree on any given	48

To represent the terrestrial globe in plano	55

THEOREM The heavenly bodies are never seen in	62

Construction of a machine which indicates	70

A lunar year being given to find by means	77

To observe an eclipse of the moon	92

To construct a horizontal dial to show	256

To describe a portable dial on a card	269

To construct a dial for any latitude	276

To describe the arcs of the signs on a sun	282

To trace out on a dial the Italian hours	285

APPENDIX Containing a general method of describing sun	293

CONTAINING SOME OF THE MOST CURIOUS PRO	299

Of the force of the rudder and the manner	306

To measure the height of mountains	98

Method of knowing the constellations	107

A short view of the principal facts in regard	118

To find whether a given year be bissextile or not	165

To find the day of the new moon in any pro	172

To find what day of the week corresponds	179

To find Easterday and the other moveable	180

To find the day of the month on which the	186

To find what day of the calends nones	192

To convert years of the olympiads into years	200

PART VII	221

To find the divisions of the hourlines on a hori	228

To describe a horizontal or a vertical south	232

To construct a dial on the convex surface of	240

Another method of constructing an universal	250

Given the direction of the wind and the course	312

On determining the longitude at	318

If a vessel should be able to reach either of	326

SOME CURIOUS	331

How to construct a hemispherical arch or what	341

229	345

To construct a floor with joists the length	348

To construct the frame of a roof which without	354

How to construct a wooden bridge of 100 feet	360

OPERATIONS IN PYROTECHNY	369

Construction of the cartridges of rockets	379

Table of the calibre of moulds of a pound weight	385

Brilliant fire and Chinese fire	391

Another method of making rockets with stars	396

Of rockets which burn in the water	403

Titel	Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ... Bind 3 af Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Charles Hutton
Forfatter	Jacques Ozanam
Redaktør	Charles Hutton
oversat af	Charles Hutton
Udgiver	Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814
Oprindeligt fra	National Library of the Netherlands
Digitaliseret	25. okt 2012

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