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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes : designed to illustrate in the most easy and natural manner, the phaenomena of the earth and heavens, ant to shew the correspondence of the two spheres : with great variety of astronomical and geographical problems / by George Adams, mathematical instrument-maker ...
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The CONTENTS.

LXXIV. Two angles and the includedside given

LXXV. Three sides given to find theangles

LXXVI. The angles given to find thesides

The use of the globes in the solution of spheri-cal problems

Prob. LXXVII. Given, the funs place, theinclination of the ecliptic andequator; to find the funs rightascension, distance from thenorth pole, and the anglewhich the meridian, passingthro the fun at that place,makes with the eclipticLXXVIII. Given, the funs place, decli-nation and latitude. To findhis rising and setting; thelength of the day and night ;the amplitude of the rising-sun from the east, and of thesetting-fun from the west;and that of the path of thevertex in the edge of the illu-minated disc

Prob. LXXIX, Given, the latitude and decli-nation to find the suns dis-tance from the vertex at thehour of six, and his amplitudeat that time

LXXX. To find the funs distancefrom the vertex when due eastand west, and the hour from

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