 | Thomas Sopwith - 1834 - 390 σελίδες
...easily and more exactly than a straight or any other line?, though even then many difficulties occur. " Let no one consider these reflections as the effect...exactness, or as an unnecessary aim at precision; Tor as the foundation of all our knowledge in . geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observation,... | |
 | Thomas Sopwith - 1838 - 336 σελίδες
...easily and more exactly than a straight or any other line, though even then many difficulties occur. " Let no one consider these reflections as the effect of too scrupulous exactness, or an unnecessary aim at precision ; for as the foundation of all our knowledge in geography, navigation,... | |
 | John F. Heather - 1849 - 208 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. " And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observations, * See protractor, page 35. f Euc. bk. 1, def. 10. Peacock's Algebra, 1st edition, art.... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. " And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observations, and all observations are made with instruments, it follows that the truth of the observations,... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1851 - 208 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. " And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...unnecessary aim at precision ; for, as the foundation of * Kuc. bk. i. de£ 10. Peacock's Algebra, 1st edition, art, 532. p. 429. all our knowledge in geography,... | |
 | Lucius D. Gould - 1853 - 234 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. "And let no one consider these reflections as the...geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observations, and all observations are made with instruments, it follows that the truth of the observations... | |
 | Lucius D. Gould - 1857 - 464 σελίδες
...though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. “ And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observations, and all observations are made with instruments, it follows that the truth of the observations... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1859 - 198 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. " And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...unnecessary aim at precision ; for, as the foundation of * Euc. bk. i. def. 10. Peacock's Algebra, 1st edition, art. 532. p. 429. all our knowledge in geography,... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1866 - 228 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. " And let no one consider these reflections as the effect...unnecessary aim at precision ; for, as the foundation of • Enc. bk. i. def. 10. Peacock's Algebra, 1st edition, art. 532. p. 429. all our knowledge in geography,... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1884 - 566 σελίδες
...line, though even then many difficulties occur, when the circle is required to be of a large radius. "And let no one consider these reflections as the...geography, navigation, and astronomy, is built on observations, and all observations are made with instruments, it follows that the truth of the observations,... | |
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... two points be very far distant, it is almost impossible to draw the line with accuracy and exactness ; a circular line may be described more easily, and more exactly, than a straight or any other line, though even then many difficulties occur, when... 