Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
Let the _Arch_ BC (in _Fig. 2. Tab. 5._) be double the _Arch_ BF, and A
the _Center_; draw the _Radii_ AB, AF, AC, and the _Chord_ BDC, and let
fall BE perpendicular to AC, and the _Angle_ EBC, will be equal to the
_Angle_ ABD, and the _Triangle_ BCE, will be like to the _Triangle_ BDA;
wherefore it will be as AB to AD, so BC or twice BD, to BE; that is, as
_Radius_ to _Co-sine_, so twice _Sine_ to _Sine_ of the double _Arch_.
And as AB to BD, so twice BD or BC to EC, that is, as _Radius_ to
_Sine_, so twice that _Sine_, to the _Versed Sine_ of the double _Arch_;
which two _Analogies_ resolved into _Equations_, are the _Propositions_
contained in the _Lemma_ to be proved.
_Prop._ VI. The _Horizontal_ Distances of _Projections_ made with the
same _Velocity_, at several _Elevations_ of the _Line_ of Direction, are
as the _Sines_ of the doubled _Angles_ of _Elevation_.
Let GB (_Fig._ 1) the _Horizontal_ Distance be = _z_, the _Sine_ of the
_Angle_ of _Elevation_, FGB, be = _s_, its _Co-sine_ = _c_, _Radius_ =
_r_, and the _Parameter_ = _p_. It will be as _c_ to _s_; so _z_ to
_sz_/_c_ = FB = GC, and by reason of the _Parabola_ _psz_/_c_ = to the
_Square_ of CB, or GF; Now as _c_ to _r_, so is _z_ to _zr_/_c_ = GF,
and its _Square_ _zzrr_/_cc_ will be therefore = to _psz_/_c_: Which
_Equation_ reduced will be _psc_/_rr_ = _z_. But by the former _Lemma_
2_sc_/_r_ is equal to the _Sine_ of the double _Angle_, whereof _s_ is
the _Sine_: Wherefore 'twill be as _Radius_ to _Sine_ of double the
_Angle_ FGB, so is half the _Parameter_, to the _Horizontal Range_ or
_Distance_ sought; and at the several _Elevations_, the _Ranges_ are as
the _Sines_ of the double _Angles_ of _Elevation_, _Q. E. D._
_Corollary._
Hence it follows, that half the _Parameter_ is the greatest _Randon_,
and that that happens at the _Elevation_ of 45 Degrees, the _Sine_ of
whose double is _Radius_. Likewise that the _Ranges_ equally distant
above and below 45 are equal, as are the _Sines_ of all double _Arches_,
to the _Sines_ of their doubled _Complements_.
_Prop._ VII. The _Altitudes_ of _Projections_ made with the same
_Velocity_, at several _Elevations_, are as the _versed Sines_ of the
doubled _Angles_ of _Elevation_: As _c_ is to _s_; so is _psc/rr_ = GB
to _pss/rr_ = BF: and UK = RU = BF/4, the _Altitude_ of the _Projection_
= _psc/4rr_. Now by the foregoing _Lemma_ _2ss/r_ = to the _versed Sine_
of the double _Angle_, and therefore it will be as _Radius_, to _versed
Sine_ of double the _Angle_ FGB, so an 8th of the _Parameter_ to the
height of the _Projection_ VK; and so these heights at several
_Elevations_, are as the said _versed Sines_, _Q. E. D._
_Corollary._
From hence it is plain, that the greatest _Altitude_ of the
perpendicular _Projection_ is a 4th of _Parameter_, or half the greatest
_Horizontal Range_; the _versed Sine_ of 180 Degrees being = _2r_.
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