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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... plane , cylindrical , and conical mirrors , and the refraction of crystals . This task his friend father Mersenne undertook , not only by correcting what Niceron's papers in Latin and French would furnish towards it , but by supplying ...
... plane , cylindrical , and conical mirrors , and the refraction of crystals . This task his friend father Mersenne undertook , not only by correcting what Niceron's papers in Latin and French would furnish towards it , but by supplying ...
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... plane of the equinoctial . Those commonly in use among seamen are two ; the one adapted to the polar star , and the first of the guards of the little bear ; the other to the pole star , and the pointers of the great bear . This ...
... plane of the equinoctial . Those commonly in use among seamen are two ; the one adapted to the polar star , and the first of the guards of the little bear ; the other to the pole star , and the pointers of the great bear . This ...
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... plane that intersects another per- pendicularly . NORROY , that is North Roy , Northern King , in heraldry , the title of the third of the three kings at arms , or provincial heralds . His jurisdiction lies on the north side of the ...
... plane that intersects another per- pendicularly . NORROY , that is North Roy , Northern King , in heraldry , the title of the third of the three kings at arms , or provincial heralds . His jurisdiction lies on the north side of the ...
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... plane . Square number , is the product of any number multiplied by itself : thus 4 , which the factum of 2 by 2 , is a square number . Every square number added to its root makes an even number . Polygonal , or polygonous numbers , the ...
... plane . Square number , is the product of any number multiplied by itself : thus 4 , which the factum of 2 by 2 , is a square number . Every square number added to its root makes an even number . Polygonal , or polygonous numbers , the ...
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... plane ; then by moving the plane nearer to , or further from the glass , it will be found whether the six rays unite exactly together at any distance from the glass ; if they do , it is a proof of the regula- rity and just form of the ...
... plane ; then by moving the plane nearer to , or further from the glass , it will be found whether the six rays unite exactly together at any distance from the glass ; if they do , it is a proof of the regula- rity and just form of the ...
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