Table of Contents. 



Page 

 INTRODUCTION. 



Description and use of the Tables xi to lxxii 



THERMOMETRICAL TABLES. 

 Table 



Conversion of thermometric scales — 



1 Approximate Absolute, Centigrade, Fahrenheit, and Reau- 



mur scales 2 



2 Fahrenheit scale to Centigrade 5 



3 Centigrade scale to Fahrenheit 10 



4 Centigrade scale to Fahrenheit, near the boiling point of water 13 



5 Differences Fahrenheit to differences Centigrade .... 13 



6 Differences Centigrade to differences Fahrenheit .... 13 

 Correction for the temperature of the emergent mercurial column 



of thermometers. 



7 Correction for Fahrenheit thermometers 14 



8 Correction for Centigrade thermometers ....... 14 



CONVERSIONS INVOLVING LINEAR MEASURES. 



9 Inches into millimeters 16 



10 Millimeters into inches 23 



11 Barometric inches into millibars 36 



12 Barometric millimeters into millibars 38 



13 Feet into meters 40 



14 Meters into feet 42 



15 Miles into kilometers 44 



16 Kilometers into miles 46 



17 Interconversion of nautical and statute miles 48 



18 Continental measures of length with their metric and English 



equivalents 48 



CONVERSION OF MEASURES OF TIME AND ANGLE. 



19 Arc into time 50 



20 Time into arc 51 



21 Days into decimals of a year and angle 52 



22 Hours, minutes and seconds into decimals of a day .... 56 



