Airopaidia

Note Note [26 — Literal and other Errors proper to be examined, and corrected with the Pen, before the Book is read.

Reading edition

[26]

If the

Length

of the Shadow be divided into 12 Parts, the Height of the Object would be 11 of those Parts.

See Moore’s

Practical Navigator

PROBLEM.

An easy Way to find the Proportion which the Length of the Shadow bears to the Height of an Object is, at any time when the sun shines, to fix a Plummet Line and frame upright in the Ground; measure the Length of its Shadow, and compare it with the Height of the frame.

Return to Literal and other Errors proper to be examined, and corrected with the Pen, before the Book is read.Return to CHAPTER XIV.