Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.

  • Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.
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MDCCLXV. [1765]
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London : printed for S. Crowder, in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Gamidge, Bookseller, in Worcester, MDCCLXV. [1765]

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[4],39,[1]p. : ill. ; 20.

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