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{{Short description|English surveyor and mathematician (1718–1781)}} '''William Chapple''' (1718–1781) was an English [[Surveying|surveyor]] and [[mathematician]]. His mathematical discoveries ...

...m. {{harvtxt|Tropfke|1903}} maintains that the method was in common use by surveyors at the time and may have been used as early as 1740 by [[Charles Marie de L |authorlink = Carl Friedrich Gauss}}; English translation of [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bX0AAAAAMAAJ/page/n6 <!- ...

...ences and Letters | publication-date=1897 | language=French}}</ref> and in English in 1999 as ''On the analytic representation of direction'' (eds. Branner & ...ential" passages of "Om directionens analytiske betegning" translated into English (see page 55). ...

{{Use British English|date=June 2021}} ...with particular types of user in mind, for example electrical engineers or surveyors.{{sfnp|Johnson|1949|pp=1–6}}{{sfnp|Johnson|1949|pp=85,105–106,133–135,136–1 ...

...involves consistently translating Babylonian technical terms with existing English words or neologisms which match the original meanings as closely as possibl ...s therefore likely that the Pythagorean rule was discovered within the lay surveyors' environment, possibly as a spin-off from the problem treated in Db<sub>2</ ...

{{Use British English|date=June 2021}} ...cation#Notation and terminology|dot operator]].}} for use by engineers and surveyors for [[tacheometry]] calculations.{{refn|group=note|name=bakewell|1=[[Stadia ...

{{Use British English|date=November 2019}} ...ough Paris. Apart from the obvious consideration of safe access for French surveyors, the Paris meridian was also a sound choice for scientific reasons: a porti ...

**[[Neil Morrissey]], English comedian and actor; in [[Stafford]], [[Staffordshire]] *The first person to swim across the [[English Channel]] underwater, without surfacing, arrived in [[Sandwich Bay, Kent]], ...

...ers of Albert Einstein. Volume 7: The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918 – 1921 (English translation supplement)|date=1920|publisher=California Institute of Technol ...raphers needed accurate time to determine longitude, while astronomers and surveyors dared to consider the worldwide dissemination of time to accuracies of thou ...

| title = English translation of Magna Carta | url = https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-english-translation ...