British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... operation ; and the whole mingled together will be of a yellow or orange colour . In the large way , and for the purposes of the arts , extremely thick cast iron or earthen retorts are usually employed , to which an earthen head is ...
... operation ; and the whole mingled together will be of a yellow or orange colour . In the large way , and for the purposes of the arts , extremely thick cast iron or earthen retorts are usually employed , to which an earthen head is ...
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... operations in arithmetic are managed with so much ease and dis- patch . Nor is it less apparent that the discoveries made by algebra are wholly to be imputed to that symbolical lan- guage made use of in it ; for by this means we are ...
... operations in arithmetic are managed with so much ease and dis- patch . Nor is it less apparent that the discoveries made by algebra are wholly to be imputed to that symbolical lan- guage made use of in it ; for by this means we are ...
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... operation till no error remains ; then set the hour circle exactly to twelve hours ( the declination circle re- maining at 90 ° as before ) ; and if the cen- tre of the cross hairs does not cover the last object fixed on , set it to ...
... operation till no error remains ; then set the hour circle exactly to twelve hours ( the declination circle re- maining at 90 ° as before ) ; and if the cen- tre of the cross hairs does not cover the last object fixed on , set it to ...
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... operation is three hours before or three hours after twelve at noon . 2. To point the telescope on a star , though ... operations , as the raising of plans , de- signs of building , pieces of perspective , & c . They are to be effaced ...
... operation is three hours before or three hours after twelve at noon . 2. To point the telescope on a star , though ... operations , as the raising of plans , de- signs of building , pieces of perspective , & c . They are to be effaced ...
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... operations ; and 3. Since from the mix- ture of those coloured rays solar light may be formed , it seems an indisputable conclusion , that the differently coloured rays do exist in solar light , previously to any separation that takes ...
... operations ; and 3. Since from the mix- ture of those coloured rays solar light may be formed , it seems an indisputable conclusion , that the differently coloured rays do exist in solar light , previously to any separation that takes ...
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