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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)

distance of 40 miles, then 40 divided by 4 gives 10, the answer to which in the table is 66 1/3 feet, which being multiplied by 16, the square of 4, gives 1,061 1/3 feet for the hight of the hill. But when the hight is given, divide it by one of those square numbers, 4, 9, 16, 25, etc., till the quotient comes within the limits of the table, and multiply the quotient by the square root of the divisor, that is, by 2, 3, 4, or 5, etc., for the distance sought; so when the top of the Peak of Teneriffe, said to be about 3 miles or 15,840 feet high, just comes into view at sea, divide 15,840 by 225, or the square of 15, and the quotient is 70, nearly; the answer to which in the table is by proportion nearly 10 2/7 miles; then multiply 10 2/7 by 15, = 154 2/7 miles for the distance of the Peak. In what has been stated, no regard has been paid to the effect of refraction in elevating the apparent places of objects. But as the operation of refraction, in curving the rays of light proceed

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