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C 413 J change bb direfiion, be may conclude that be had taken one confidcTably wide of the true perpendicu - 'lat; whereas, if it is ordered, after he has advanced
Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces Great Britain Adjutant-General's Office, Sir William Fawcett 1794
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Fig. 82, j ET ppbe the chord which is cut off from JL-i the diameter; draw the diameter of the circle PR, and from the center O draw O T perpendicu - lar XoPF, which will bifeft PV'm T; draw the conju -
A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In which the Three Curves are Derived from a General ... 1794
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The hills rife almoft perpendicu - larly, exhibiting a variety of peaked forms; and their fteep fides, as well as the deep chafms between them, arc covered with trees, among which thofc of the bread - fruit principally abound.
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If then the cUipfis reprefent a meridian of the earth I A and HO will reprefent the common fedions of that meridian and the horizons of two places; and AT, LT two perpendicu - lars to the horizons, and the angle ATL will be the dif - ference of the latitude, (equal to 45°).
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This road is in many places ex - tremely narrow, being cut out of the folid tock, which is. of tea jOQfeet. perpendicu*. lar in his Tour through France.
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Humorem Vitreum, - tenuiorem corpore an - tecedeate 3 admittere radios cum refradione a perpendicu - lari, perquaniiutiaturcoincidentiaradiationu-m ab eodem
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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Torfit tertio quod in traiedione radiationum per Lentes Vitreas, &c Humores Cryftallinos ab Oculis exemptos, ad vniendas, per refraclrionem poft illos, ad fitum determi - natuxn in excipiente, piures radiationes, a quolibet Signa - bfii in ohiecT: o fupra totam Globofi Diaphani faciem paten - tem dirlufas, feruiebat notabiliter refrachio a perpendicu - lari, qus fiebat in egreifu ab ilhs ad aerem confequentem tanto tenuiorem 5 poft lentem autem Humoris Cryftallini fequeretur in Oculo Humor Vitreus illi in denfitate fiippar: - nihiiominus fuppofita conuenienti expanfione Retina?,
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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652 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER the defert as quickly as poffible, and come to Axum, it mull have been then Summer, or near it; and as it was neceflary his fleet mould return by the monfoon in October, fo it mufl have then rained continually, and the fun been perpendicu - lar to the country when he found the deep fnows in Sa - men, which is not very probable.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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Toftuletur a quavis punfto fit redus; {qmd 'femper (bppo - nimas) ut alter BACetitmfitre&us: a* deoqne ut linea AB perpendiculariter ih lin«un AC cacTens etiamlit perpendicu - laris ad alteram BD.
Euclidis Elementorum sex libri priores: magnam partem novis demonstrationibus adornati 1692
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