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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... weight , though of greater im- portance to Mundane fubfiftence . But I will deter thee ( Reader ) no longer in the Porch , but invite thee into the Inner Rooms ; into which Ingredere ut Proficias : And so , for this time , Farewell ...
... weight , though of greater im- portance to Mundane fubfiftence . But I will deter thee ( Reader ) no longer in the Porch , but invite thee into the Inner Rooms ; into which Ingredere ut Proficias : And so , for this time , Farewell ...
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... weight of Water and other things , in weight and magnitude compared . 15 17 A Comparative Table of the weight of Metals , Grains , Liqours , & c . Foreign Weights and Measures compared with the English . Statical Experiments . A ...
... weight of Water and other things , in weight and magnitude compared . 15 17 A Comparative Table of the weight of Metals , Grains , Liqours , & c . Foreign Weights and Measures compared with the English . Statical Experiments . A ...
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... Weight of fo much : How it Should be removed : And where ftowed . I ' I. For the Quantity of it . F we allow Ten thoufand Corns to a Pint ( which is more than enough ) then 5120000 , that is , Five millions , one hundred and twenty thou ...
... Weight of fo much : How it Should be removed : And where ftowed . I ' I. For the Quantity of it . F we allow Ten thoufand Corns to a Pint ( which is more than enough ) then 5120000 , that is , Five millions , one hundred and twenty thou ...
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... Weight of this Barley . If we allow eight Bubels ( or one Quarter ) to weigh two hundred Weight ( but doubtless it weighs more ) then the whole number of Quarters , viz . 472236648286964 , multiplied by 2 , gives the Weight of all the ...
... Weight of this Barley . If we allow eight Bubels ( or one Quarter ) to weigh two hundred Weight ( but doubtless it weighs more ) then the whole number of Quarters , viz . 472236648286964 , multiplied by 2 , gives the Weight of all the ...
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... weights are demanded . L ' ET the weight A be fuppofed to weigh only one Pound , then B muft weigh Pound and 9 over ; and C muft weigh 3 times A which is 3 , and 4 times as much as B which is 4 , which together make 7 for C ; and then D ...
... weights are demanded . L ' ET the weight A be fuppofed to weigh only one Pound , then B muft weigh Pound and 9 over ; and C muft weigh 3 times A which is 3 , and 4 times as much as B which is 4 , which together make 7 for C ; and then D ...
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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...
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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.