British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... diameter , passing to one extremity of the arch , and terminated by a right line drawn from the centre through the other end of the arch , and called the secant . And the co - tan- gent of an arch is the tangent of the com- plement of ...
... diameter , passing to one extremity of the arch , and terminated by a right line drawn from the centre through the other end of the arch , and called the secant . And the co - tan- gent of an arch is the tangent of the com- plement of ...
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... diameter , A B , and put A B a , BS = = x , and S C = y . Then , by the property of the circle , 32 ( CS ) = BS x2 ; XAS ( = x Xa - x ) whereof the fluxion being taken , in or- der to determine the ratio of and y , we get 2 y ya i- 2x ...
... diameter , A B , and put A B a , BS = = x , and S C = y . Then , by the property of the circle , 32 ( CS ) = BS x2 ; XAS ( = x Xa - x ) whereof the fluxion being taken , in or- der to determine the ratio of and y , we get 2 y ya i- 2x ...
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... diameter ; the planks are placed upright , and the beams cross them at either extremity of the loom , the lower at about twelve inches from the floor ; each have trunnions , which suspend them on the planks , and they are turned with ...
... diameter ; the planks are placed upright , and the beams cross them at either extremity of the loom , the lower at about twelve inches from the floor ; each have trunnions , which suspend them on the planks , and they are turned with ...
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... diameter of a very distant object , from every point of which rays come , so very little diverging to the object lens , K M , of the telescope , as to be nearly parallel : p q is the picture of the object , P Q , which would be form- ed ...
... diameter of a very distant object , from every point of which rays come , so very little diverging to the object lens , K M , of the telescope , as to be nearly parallel : p q is the picture of the object , P Q , which would be form- ed ...
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... diameter . But since the first image is magnified into a second image much larger , which is viewed through the eye lens , therefore the whole magnifying power is in a proportion com- pounded of de to ex , and of zx to zo . If the ...
... diameter . But since the first image is magnified into a second image much larger , which is viewed through the eye lens , therefore the whole magnifying power is in a proportion com- pounded of de to ex , and of zx to zo . If the ...
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