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GONIOMETRY

Volume 9 · 60 words · 1810 Edition

a method of measuring angles, so called by M. de Lagny, who gave several papers, on this method, in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy an. 1724, 1725, 1729. M. de Lagny's method of goniometry consists in measuring the angles with a pair of compasses, and that without any scale whatever, except an undivided semicircle. Thus, having any angle drawn...