The semicircle on a sector in two books. Containing the description of a general and portable instrument; whereby most problems (reducible to instrumental practice) in astronomy, trigonometry, arithmetick, geometry, geography, topography, navigation, dyalling, &c. are speedily and exactly resolved. By J. T.

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The semicircle on a sector in two books. Containing the description of a general and portable instrument; whereby most problems (reducible to instrumental practice) in astronomy, trigonometry, arithmetick, geometry, geography, topography, navigation, dyalling, &c. are speedily and exactly resolved. By J. T.
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Taylor, John, 1666 or 7-1687.
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London :: printed for William Tompson, bookseller at Harborough in Leicestershire,
1667.
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Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Dialing -- Early works to 1800.
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"The semicircle on a sector in two books. Containing the description of a general and portable instrument; whereby most problems (reducible to instrumental practice) in astronomy, trigonometry, arithmetick, geometry, geography, topography, navigation, dyalling, &c. are speedily and exactly resolved. By J. T." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64223.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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PROBL. 10.

The Suns altitude given to find his Azimuth in the aequator.

Lay the thread to the altitude in the limb, counted from 60/0 on the loose piece to∣ward the end, and on the line of Azimuths

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it cuts the Azimuth from South. Ex. gr. at 25 deg. altitude the Azimuth is 53 deg. At 30 deg. altitude the Azimuth is 41 deg. 30 min. fere.

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