Tables of Logarithms of Numbers and of Sines and Tangents for Every Ten Seconds of the Quadrant: With Other Useful Tables

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Harper & Bros., 1862 - 150 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 5 - Thus the meridional parts for latitude 12° 23' are 748.9; " " " 57° 42' are 4260.5. TABLE OF CORRECTIONS TO MIDDLE LATITUDE, p. 149. This table is used in Navigation for correcting the middle latitude The given middle latitude is to be found either in the first or last vertical column, opposite to which, and under the given difference of latitude, is inserted the proper correction in minutes, to be added to the middle latitude to obtain the latitude in which the meridian distance is accu rately...
Pàgina 6 - In the following Table, the first two figures, in the first column of Logarithms, are to be prefixed to each of the numbers, in the same horizontal line, in the next nine columns; but when a point (•) occurs, a 0 is to be put in its place, and the Itco initial figures are to be taken from the next line below.

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