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The height of the balloon was measured trigonometrically by French officers in Calais, who found by angular measures, when the balloon was midway across the Channel, that its height was 4500 feet.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence

When the meteorograph is hidden by clouds, the height above the last point trigonometrically determined is computed from the barometer record by Laplace's formula.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence

The spaces between his trigonometrically determined points he filled in after photographs, and a series of panoramic sketches which he made from his different stations.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward

The people saw us undertaking the measurement of fields, and trigonometrically determining heights and distances with instruments made by ourselves.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Here I intersected various lofty distant summits seen on the 21st instant, and could thus connect the whole trigonometrically with back angles to Bindango, Mount Abundance, etc.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas