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 May 19, 2025.

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Page 26

PROBL. 2.

How to substract one sine from another upon the line of natural sines.

The substracting of one sine from an∣other, is no more than taking the distance from the lesser to the greater on the line of sines, and that distance applyed to the line from the beginning, gives the residue or re∣mainer. Ex. gr. To substract 20 from 37 I take the distance from 20 to 37 that apply∣ed to the line from the beginning gives 15 for the sine remaining.

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