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.

Title

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.

Author

Taylor, John, 1666 or 7-1687.

Publication

London :: printed for William Tompson, bookseller at Harborough in Leicestershire,

1667.

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Subject terms

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 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Reader.
• Errata.
• To the Right Honorable, The Lord SHERARD, Baron of Letrim.
• THE SEMICIRCLE ON A SECTOR.
  • LIB. I.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
      • PROBL. 6.
      • PROBL. 7.
      • PROBL. 8.
      • PROBL. 9.
      • PROBL. 10.
      • PROBL. 11.
      • PROBL. 12.
      • PROBL. 13.
      • PROBL. 14.
      • PROBL. 15.
      • PROBL. 16.
      • PROBL. 17.
      • PROBL. 18.
      • PROBL. 19.
      • PROBL. 20.
        • Sect. 1.
        • Sect. 2.
        • Sect. 3.
        • Sect. 4.
    • CHAP. III.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
        • CASE 1.
        • CASE 2.
        • CASE 3.
        • CASE 4.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
      • PROBL. 6.
      • PROBL. 7.
      • PROBL. 8.
      • PROBL. 9.
      • PROBL. 10.
    • CHAP. IV.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
      • PROBL. 6.
      • PROBL. 7.
    • CHAP. V.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
    • CHAP. VI.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
      • PROBL. 6.
        • CASE 1.
        • CASE 2.
        • CASE. 3.
      • PROBL. 7.
      • PROBL. 8.
      • PROBL. 9.
      • PROBL. 10.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
    • CHAP. IX.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
    • CHAP. X.
      • PROBL.1.
      • PROBL. 2.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
      • CASE 1.
        • PROP. 1.
        • PROP. 2.
        • PROP. 3.
      • CASE 2.
        • PROP. 1.
        • PROP. 2.
        • PROP. 3.
      • CASE 3.
        • PROP. 1.
        • PROP. 2.
        • PROP. 3.
    • CHAP. XIV.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
      • PROBL. 6.
      • PROBL. 7.
    • CHAP. XV.
      • CASE 1.
      • CASE 2.
      • CASE 3.
      • CASE 4.
      • CASE. 5.
    • CHAP. XVI.
      • CASE 1.
      • CASE 2.
      • CASE 3.
      • CASE 4.
      • CASE 5.
      • CASE 6.
  • An Appendix to the first Book.
    • PROBL. 1.
    • PROBL. 2.
    • PROBL. 3.
  • ΣΚΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ, OR, The Art of Dyalling for any plain Superficies.
    • CHAP. I.
      • PROBL. 1.
      • PROBL. 2.
      • PROBL. 3.
      • PROBL. 4.
      • PROBL. 5.
        • CASE 1.
        • CASE 2.
        • CASE 3.
        • CASE 4.
        • CASE 5.
        • CASE 6.
      • PROBL. 6.
    • CHAP. II.
      • Sect. 1.
      • Sect. 2.
      • Sect. 3.
      • Sect. 4.
        • To finde the Styles height above the Substile.
        • To finde the Substyles distance from the Meridian.
        • To finde the angle of twelve and six.
        • To finde the inclination of Meridians.
      • Sect. 5.
        • For South Recliners, and North Incliners.
        • For South incliners, and North recliners.
        • For direct East and West recliners incliners.
      • Sect. 6.
        • 1. To finde the new Latitude.
        • 2. To finde the new declination.
        • 3. To finde the angle of the Meridian with the Horizontal Line of the Plain.
        • To finde the Angle of the Substile with the Hori∣zontal Line of the Plain.
        • To finde the inclination of Meridians.
    • CHAP. III.
      • Sect. 1.
      • Sect. 2.
      • Sect. 3.
      • Sect. 4.
      • Sect. 5.
      • Sect. 6.
      • Sect. 7.
    • CHAP. IV.
      • Sect. 1.
      • Sect. 2.
      • Sect. 3.
      • Sect. 4.