A treatise on spherical trigonometry, and its application to geodesy and astronomy, with numerous examples. By John Casey.

INDEX. ALLMAN, Professor, 131. Altitudes of a spherical triangle, 23, 26. --- of a heavenly body, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154. Ambiguous case, 58, 59. Analogies between the geometry of the plane and sphere, 7. - Breitschnieder's, 47. -- Delambre's or Gauss's, 40, 41, 43, 47, 65. --- - Napier's, 39, 65. ----- Reidt's, 41, 59. Angle (the hour angle), 152. -— dihedral, 133, 134, 139, 141, 142. — horizontal, 143, 145. -- of intersection of two circles, 6, 18, 123, 125. - - solid, 10, 19, 127, 133, 138, 140. of a chordal triangle, 144. - - of a spherical triangle, 12. Anharmonic ratio, 68, 69, 71, 75, 110. Annales Nouvelles, theorems from, 43, 45, 90, 95, 136. Antipodal triangles, 10, 13, 93. Area of a lune, 15. - of a spherical polygon, 17, 97. -- of a spherical quadrilateral, 127. -- of a spherical triangle, 16, 93, 95, 147, 148. Aries, first point of, 151, 153. Ascension, right, 150, 152, 153, 155. Astronomy, definitions of, 149. ----- exercises on, 152. -- - problems on, 151. Axis of a circle, 4. -- of similitude, 104. Azimuth, 150, 151, 152, 153. Baltzer on Napier's ules, 36. Barbier, theorems by, 45. Breitschneider, theorems by, 47. Brianchon, theorem by, 111. Briot et Bouquet, method of using tables, 48. M

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A treatise on spherical trigonometry, and its application to geodesy and astronomy, with numerous examples. By John Casey.
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Casey, John, 1820-1891.
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Dublin,: Hodges, Figgis, & co.; [etc., etc.]
1889.
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