The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... four sides at least : such are the pentagon , hexagon , heptagon , & c . Every polygon may be divided into as many triangles as it has sides ; for if you assume a point , as a , ( see Plate XII . Miscel . fig . 14 ) , any where within ...
... four sides at least : such are the pentagon , hexagon , heptagon , & c . Every polygon may be divided into as many triangles as it has sides ; for if you assume a point , as a , ( see Plate XII . Miscel . fig . 14 ) , any where within ...
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... four , or taken four times . This word is particularly used for a gold coin worth four times as much as that whereof it is the quadruple . QUALEA , in botany , a genus of the Monandria Monogynia class and order . Essential character : calyx ...
... four , or taken four times . This word is particularly used for a gold coin worth four times as much as that whereof it is the quadruple . QUALEA , in botany , a genus of the Monandria Monogynia class and order . Essential character : calyx ...
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... four - parted ; seed one , very long , fleshy at the base . There are six species , of which R. man- gle , or ... four - parted ; corolla four petalled , nectary four : female , calyx four - parted ; corolla four - petalled ; nectary ...
... four - parted ; seed one , very long , fleshy at the base . There are six species , of which R. man- gle , or ... four - parted ; corolla four petalled , nectary four : female , calyx four - parted ; corolla four - petalled ; nectary ...
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