Instructions Given in the Drawing School Established by the Dublin Society: Course of mathematicks. System of the physical world. System of the moral world. Plan of the military art. Plan of the marcantile arts. Plan of naval art. Plan of mechanic arts. The elements of EuclidA. M'Culloch, 1769 - Mathematics |
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Page xxxvi
... diameters fuppofed to be divided into 100,000 Parts , nets in femi of the earth That of Saturn , excentricity That of ... Diameter of the Sun being taken for a common Measure , and fuppofed to be divided into 1000 Parts : That of Saturn ...
... diameters fuppofed to be divided into 100,000 Parts , nets in femi of the earth That of Saturn , excentricity That of ... Diameter of the Sun being taken for a common Measure , and fuppofed to be divided into 1000 Parts : That of Saturn ...
Page xxxix
... Diameters is much greater than that of the Earth , because this Planet is a great deal bigger , and revolves with ... Diameter , in general , is a Line which paffes through the Center . and is termi- nated at the Circumference , In ...
... Diameters is much greater than that of the Earth , because this Planet is a great deal bigger , and revolves with ... Diameter , in general , is a Line which paffes through the Center . and is termi- nated at the Circumference , In ...
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... diameters , the fecond of 9 , the third of 14 , and the fourth of 25 , negle & - from this ing Fractions . Thefe ... Diameter of Saturn's Ring for a common Meafure , Distances of the Satellites of Saturn commencing with the innermoft ...
... diameters , the fecond of 9 , the third of 14 , and the fourth of 25 , negle & - from this ing Fractions . Thefe ... Diameter of Saturn's Ring for a common Meafure , Distances of the Satellites of Saturn commencing with the innermoft ...
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... Diameter of this the body of Ring is to the Diameter of Saturn as 9 to 4 , according to Hugbens , that is this planet . more than the Double of the Diameter of Saturn ; the Distance of the Body from the bo- of Saturn from his Ring , is ...
... Diameter of this the body of Ring is to the Diameter of Saturn as 9 to 4 , according to Hugbens , that is this planet . more than the Double of the Diameter of Saturn ; the Distance of the Body from the bo- of Saturn from his Ring , is ...
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... Diameter was former- ly equal to the Sum of its actual Diameter , and the Breadth of the Ring . Another Conjecture has also been propofed , that the Ring of Saturn is on- The fatel- ly an Affemblage of Moons , which from the immense ...
... Diameter was former- ly equal to the Sum of its actual Diameter , and the Breadth of the Ring . Another Conjecture has also been propofed , that the Ring of Saturn is on- The fatel- ly an Affemblage of Moons , which from the immense ...
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Page 8 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 4 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 164 - When of the equimultiples of four magnitudes (taken as in the fifth definition), the multiple of the first is greater than that of the second, but the multiple of the third is not greater than the multiple of the fourth ; then the first is said to have to the second a greater ratio than the third magnitude has to the fourth : and, on the contrary, the third is said to have to the fourth a less ratio than the first has to the second. VIII. " Analogy, or proportion, is the similitude of ratios.
Page 165 - When four magnitudes are continual proportionals, the first is said to have to the fourth the triplicate ratio of that which it has to the second, and so on, quadruplicate, &c., increasing the denomination still by unity, in any number of proportionals.
Page 241 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Page xxviii - ... bodies that are within the sphere of their activity, and consequently, that not only the sun and moon have .an influence upon the body and motion of the earth, and the earth upon them, but that...
Page 165 - When three magnitudes are proportionals, the first is said to have to the third the duplicate ratio of that which it has to the second.
Page 226 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page xiv - Oh! qui m'arrêtera sous vos sombres asiles? Quand pourront les neuf Sœurs, loin des cours et des villes, M'occuper tout entier, et m'apprendre des deux Les divers mouvements inconnus à nos yeux, Les noms et les vertus de ces clartés errantes Par qui sont nos destins et nos mœurs différentes.
Page xxviii - Now what these several degrees are I have not yet experimentally verified; but it is a notion which, if fully prosecuted, as it ought to be, will mightily assist the astronomers to reduce all the celestial motions to a certain rule, which I doubt will never be done true without it.