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

34 Connecting Sides and Angles of a Spherical Triangle. FBE FE ED Now OE = D OE; that is, sina = ssinAin c. (108') FD FD BED ' OD EDB ' OD'?,, tanb cosA.tanc. (109') EF EF F-) " -O F^ = D ' OF; tan a= tanA. sinb. (110') OD OD OF OE = OF OE', cos c = cosa cosb. (113/) O.E - OI OFE' OE B A Fig. 15. Multiply together (110') and the formula obtained by interchanging letters, and we get -os aos= tan A tan B. cos a cos b Hence cos c = cot A cot B. (112') Lastly, multiply crosswise (108') and the formula got from (108') by interchange of letters; then sin a cos B tan c = tan a sin A sin c; sin 4 cos c therefore cosB = incos = sin cosb. (111 ) cos a 37. The equations (108)-(111) are easily remembered by comparing them with the corresponding equations for the right-angled plane triangle. Thus

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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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Dublin,: Hodges, Figgis, & co.; [etc., etc.]
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