Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, Viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical : Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits, and to Induce Them to Make Further Scrutiny Into These (and the Like) Sublime Sciences, and to Divert Them from Following Such Vices, to which Youth (in this Age) are So Much Inclin'dRichard Baldwin and John Dunton, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and at the Raven in the Poultrey, 1694 - Algebra - 408 pages |
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Page 58
... Meridian , and is fitted for your prefent use . Your Inftrument thus fixed , caufe marks to be fet up at every angle of the field ( or rather let one go from angle to angle with a long staff having a white cloth or paper tied to the top ...
... Meridian , and is fitted for your prefent use . Your Inftrument thus fixed , caufe marks to be fet up at every angle of the field ( or rather let one go from angle to angle with a long staff having a white cloth or paper tied to the top ...
Page 60
... Meridian or North and South Line , reprefented by the line in the Figure by NS . In fome convenient place of that line ( as at O ) affign a point , which point O upon your paper , represents or fignifies the place in the field where ...
... Meridian or North and South Line , reprefented by the line in the Figure by NS . In fome convenient place of that line ( as at O ) affign a point , which point O upon your paper , represents or fignifies the place in the field where ...
Page 61
... Meridian Line in the Chard . It being thus fixed , direct your fights to the firft Angle towards your left hand , noting the degrees and minutes cut by the Index , and note them down in a book or paper , in all respects as you did those ...
... Meridian Line in the Chard . It being thus fixed , direct your fights to the firft Angle towards your left hand , noting the degrees and minutes cut by the Index , and note them down in a book or paper , in all respects as you did those ...
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... Meridian . 3. The Equinoctial . 254 . The Zodiack . 5 . The Colures . Of these two Colares , the one is called the Equinoctial Colure , divi- ding the Sphere into two equal parts in the Points of East and West , and the other is called ...
... Meridian . 3. The Equinoctial . 254 . The Zodiack . 5 . The Colures . Of these two Colares , the one is called the Equinoctial Colure , divi- ding the Sphere into two equal parts in the Points of East and West , and the other is called ...
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... MERIDIAN . The Meridian is a great Circle of the Sphere , which paffeth through the Zenith and Nadir Points , and alfo thro ' both the Poles , and divi- deth the Horizon into two equal parts in the Points of North and South , which ...
... MERIDIAN . The Meridian is a great Circle of the Sphere , which paffeth through the Zenith and Nadir Points , and alfo thro ' both the Poles , and divi- deth the Horizon into two equal parts in the Points of North and South , which ...
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Page 24 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 11 - God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 10 - ... since the same weight which in its fall does turn the wheel, is, by the turning of the wheel, carried up again. Or, if the water, falling upon one wheel, would not be forcible enough for this effect, why then there might be two, or three, or more, according as the length and elevation of the instrument will admit ; by which means the weight of it may be so multiplied in the fall that it shall be...
Page 11 - But on the other side, if all the water falling upon one wheel, would be able to turn it round, then half of it would serve with two wheels ; and the rest may be so disposed of in the fall, as to serve unto some other useful delightful ends. When I first thought of this invention, I could...
Page 9 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor. Or, 2.
Page 27 - ... equal to the square root of the numerator divided by the square root of the denominator.
Page 31 - ... so that every day the planet that rules the day comes forth, the rest being hid within the frames, till they come out...
Page 60 - B, from B to C, from C to D, from D to E, and from E to A ; and measure the distances AB, BC, CD, DE, and EA.
Page 11 - H, shall consequently give a circular motion to the whole screw : or if this alone should be too weak for the turning of it, then the same water which falls from the wheel H, being received into the other vessel F, may from thence again descend on the wheel I ; by which means the force of it will be doubled *. And...
Page ii - I'll- give you leave to punish me. Thus as soon may the same meat please all palats, as the same sport suit with all dispositions.