A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and PracticeSaint, 1770 - 646 pages |
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Page xv
... infinite variety of things neceffary in life , and are supplied with the means of making the calculations which are neceffary for the conftruction of almost all machines . IT is evident that the clofe connection of this subject with the ...
... infinite variety of things neceffary in life , and are supplied with the means of making the calculations which are neceffary for the conftruction of almost all machines . IT is evident that the clofe connection of this subject with the ...
Page xvii
... infinite feries . He had another very curious and fingular contrivance for de- termining the measures of figures , in which he proceeds as it were mechanically by weighing them . SEVERAL other eminent men among the ancients wrote on ...
... infinite feries . He had another very curious and fingular contrivance for de- termining the measures of figures , in which he proceeds as it were mechanically by weighing them . SEVERAL other eminent men among the ancients wrote on ...
Page xviii
... infinite approximating feries were affigned , of which the laws of their continuation were manifeft , and of fome of which the terms were independent on each other . Mr Wallis , Mr Huygens , and Mr James Gregory performed wonders ...
... infinite approximating feries were affigned , of which the laws of their continuation were manifeft , and of fome of which the terms were independent on each other . Mr Wallis , Mr Huygens , and Mr James Gregory performed wonders ...
Page xix
... infinite feries of which any term or any number of terms could be eafily affigned ; and the like in other things . And although no curve whofe quadrature was unfuccefsfully attempted by the ancients , became by this method . perfectly ...
... infinite feries of which any term or any number of terms could be eafily affigned ; and the like in other things . And although no curve whofe quadrature was unfuccefsfully attempted by the ancients , became by this method . perfectly ...
Page xx
... infinite feries . - All hopes of the quadrature of the circle being now at an end , the geometricians employed themselves in difcovering and felecting the best forms of infinite feries for determining its area , a- mong which it is ...
... infinite feries . - All hopes of the quadrature of the circle being now at an end , the geometricians employed themselves in difcovering and felecting the best forms of infinite feries for determining its area , a- mong which it is ...
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