The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 - English literature |
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Page 150
... length of the pendulum vibrating seconds was first pro- posed , as an invariable standard of length , by Huygens ; but Der- ham appears to have been the earliest who made experiments to determine this length . Desaguliers and Graham ...
... length of the pendulum vibrating seconds was first pro- posed , as an invariable standard of length , by Huygens ; but Der- ham appears to have been the earliest who made experiments to determine this length . Desaguliers and Graham ...
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... length of this rod , or body , is not the length of the pendulum . Suppose a cylindrical rod , or thick wire , fifty - two inches long , to be sus- pended by one end , and made to vibrate ; and suppose a small bullet , attached to a ...
... length of this rod , or body , is not the length of the pendulum . Suppose a cylindrical rod , or thick wire , fifty - two inches long , to be sus- pended by one end , and made to vibrate ; and suppose a small bullet , attached to a ...
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... length of the standard yard , or thirty - six inches , of the present day . For this purpose , a scale of equal parts ( no matter of what value ) must be prepared , and the length of the pendulum vibra- ting seconds , in London , be ...
... length of the standard yard , or thirty - six inches , of the present day . For this purpose , a scale of equal parts ( no matter of what value ) must be prepared , and the length of the pendulum vibra- ting seconds , in London , be ...
Contents
No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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