. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ough,which is entered in the field-bood. The true folidityboth of the body of the tree and of the boughs may b»found from the diameter and lengths in tables calcula-ted for thispurpofe. Tije dcndrometer, fitted to a theodolite, may b«applied to meafuring the heights and diftances of ob-jefts, acceffible or inacceffible, whether fituated inplanes parallel or oblique to the plane in which
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ough,which is entered in the field-bood. The true folidityboth of the body of the tree and of the boughs may b»found from the diameter and lengths in tables calcula-ted for thispurpofe. Tije dcndrometer, fitted to a theodolite, may b«applied to meafuring the heights and diftances of ob-jefts, acceffible or inacceffible, whether fituated inplanes parallel or oblique to the plane in which theinftrument is placed. It may be alfo iifed for takingall angles, whether vertical, horizontal, or oblique, inany pofition of the planes in which they are formed ;and thus for facilitating the pradical operations of en-gineering, land furveying, levelling, mining, &c. andfor performing the various cafes of plane trigonometrywithoit calculation ; of which the inventors have fub-joined to their account of this inftrument many ex-ample?. DENDROPHORIA, in antiquity, the carryingof boughs cr branches of trees ; a religious ceremonyfo called, bccaufc certain priefts called from thenc« dt!:drophr,r!,. D E N [ 753 J DEN
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