The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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... square . N. bi- pustulata , is oval , black ; shells with a red dot . It inhabits Europe , and lives on car- cases , meat , bacon , & c . NITRARIA , in botany , a genus of the Dodecandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of ...
... square . N. bi- pustulata , is oval , black ; shells with a red dot . It inhabits Europe , and lives on car- cases , meat , bacon , & c . NITRARIA , in botany , a genus of the Dodecandria Monogynia class and order . Natural order of ...
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... square number by its root : such is 27 , as being the product of the square number 9 , by its root 3. All cubic numbers whose root is less than 6 , being divided by 6 , the remainder is the root itself : thus 276 leaves the remain- der ...
... square number by its root : such is 27 , as being the product of the square number 9 , by its root 3. All cubic numbers whose root is less than 6 , being divided by 6 , the remainder is the root itself : thus 276 leaves the remain- der ...
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... square number . Every square number added to its root makes an even number . Polygonal , or polygonous numbers , the sums of arith- metical progressions beginning with unity : these , where the common difference is 1 , are called ...
... square number . Every square number added to its root makes an even number . Polygonal , or polygonous numbers , the sums of arith- metical progressions beginning with unity : these , where the common difference is 1 , are called ...
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... square axis , HIF , is eighteen inches , and of the part , HI , twelve inches ; and its thickness is about a quarter of an inch . The diameters of the circles are each five inches ; the thickness of the plates , and the other measures ...
... square axis , HIF , is eighteen inches , and of the part , HI , twelve inches ; and its thickness is about a quarter of an inch . The diameters of the circles are each five inches ; the thickness of the plates , and the other measures ...
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... square base , and is fixed to the cube by four screws . These sockets are cut down in the sides about eight inches , to admit more easily the tube of the telescope ; but when the tube is inserted , it is kept in firm by screw- ing up ...
... square base , and is fixed to the cube by four screws . These sockets are cut down in the sides about eight inches , to admit more easily the tube of the telescope ; but when the tube is inserted , it is kept in firm by screw- ing up ...
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