Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

RECREATIONS

IN

MATHEMATICS

AND

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

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AMUSING DISSERTATIONS AND ENQUIRIES CONCERNING A
VARIETY OF SUBJECTS THE MOST REMARKABLE AND
PROPER TO EXCITE CURIOSITY AND ATTENTION TO
THE WHOLE RANGE OF THE MATHEMATICAL
AND PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES:

The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to
the Comprehension of all who are the least initiated
in those Sciences: viz.

M. OZANAM, of the ROYAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES, &c. Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new Edition, by the celebrated

M. MONTUCLA.

And now translated into English, and improved with many
Additions and Observations, by

CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. and F.R.S.
AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL
MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES;

WITH NEAR ONE HUNDRED QUARTO PLATES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET,

By T. Davison, White-Frias.

1803.

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CONTENTS

OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

PART VI.

Containing the easiest and most curious problems, as

well as the most interesting truths, in astronomy and

geography, both mathematical and phyfical.

CHAPTER I.

Elementary problems of aftronomy and

PROB. I. To find the meridian of any place

PROB. II. To find the latitude of any place

PROB. III. To find the longitude of any place on the earth

Table containing the longitudes and latitudes of the

chief towns and most remarkable places of the earth 16

PROB. IV. To find what o'clock it is at any place of the

earth, when it is a certain hour at another

Table for changing degrees and minutes into hours, mi-

nutes, and feconds, or the contrary

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