Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volumen49;Volumen69W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for Lockyer Davis, printer to the Royal Society, 1779 |
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... respect its formula ) n → 2 of . the refulting equation . Let n = 3 , and the equation refulting will rise to an equation of nine dimenfions , which has the formula of a cubic ; for let x = + = a one root , then will = 2 I x = √ + 3 a ...
... respect its formula ) n → 2 of . the refulting equation . Let n = 3 , and the equation refulting will rise to an equation of nine dimenfions , which has the formula of a cubic ; for let x = + = a one root , then will = 2 I x = √ + 3 a ...
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... respects : but , upon the whole , the animals are reprefented and defcribed as very strong and muscular ; whereas all the Orangs from Borneo , I have seen , were the contrary , and had long and very lean arms and legs . To conclude , it ...
... respects : but , upon the whole , the animals are reprefented and defcribed as very strong and muscular ; whereas all the Orangs from Borneo , I have seen , were the contrary , and had long and very lean arms and legs . To conclude , it ...
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... respect magnifying 150 times , with an achromatic object - glass micrometer , and a very firm stand and polar - axis . It has but one set of sliding tubes at the object end , yet it is very steady , and anfwers perfectly well , when ...
... respect magnifying 150 times , with an achromatic object - glass micrometer , and a very firm stand and polar - axis . It has but one set of sliding tubes at the object end , yet it is very steady , and anfwers perfectly well , when ...
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... respect to the time obferved is fet down , and alfo the correction of the Nautical Almanac , with respect to the time ob- served , and reduced to the effect of a 3 feet telescope , which shews the immersions of the first fatellite ...
... respect to the time obferved is fet down , and alfo the correction of the Nautical Almanac , with respect to the time ob- served , and reduced to the effect of a 3 feet telescope , which shews the immersions of the first fatellite ...
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... respect and veneration for that learned Body , who , as their inquiries extend to all parts of Nature , will perhaps not difdain to receive a narrative of the uncommon , exertions of the human faculties at a more early period of life ...
... respect and veneration for that learned Body , who , as their inquiries extend to all parts of Nature , will perhaps not difdain to receive a narrative of the uncommon , exertions of the human faculties at a more early period of life ...
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Página 53 - ... hours before it attained a fufficient degree of hardnefs. When that was done, and the feveral baked pieces were become cold, he gave them their magnetic virtue in any direction he pleafed, by placing them between the extreme ends of his Jarge magazine of artificial magnets for a few féconds or more, as he faw occafion. By this method the virtue they acquired was fuch...
Página 198 - ... could find out what note it was, the child, who was then amufing himfelf with drawing on the floor, left that employment, and going to the organ immediately laid his hand oft the note that ciphered'^.
Página 52 - Having at laft procured enough of this very fine powder, the next thing to be done was to make a pafte of it,, and that with fome vehicle which would contain a confiderable quantity of the phlogiflic principle ; for this purpofe he had recourfe to linfeed oil in preference to all other fluids.
Página 203 - Mozart's, was so masterly in point of invention, modulation, and accuracy of execution, as to surpass, in many particulars, the attainments of most professors at any period of their lives.
Página 199 - ... extraneous and difficult keys whatever he played; and now, in his extemporaneous flights, he modulates into all keys with equal facility.
Página 184 - ... forms, perfons, founds, and tones of voice, in very early infancy, who never afterwards endeavour to imitate forms by delineation, or founds by vocal inflexions. As drawing or defign may be called a refinement of the...
Página 2 - Blifters and anti-fpafmodics were directed, and .particularly the flowers of zinc-, which were continued till the beginning, of July, but without the leaft abatement of the fymptoms; when her father growing impatient of fruitlefs attendance at the hofpital, I recommended, as a dernier refort, a trial of electricity, under the management of the Rev. Mr. UNDERWOOD, an ingenious electrician. After this I heard no more of her till the firft of Auguft, when her father came to inform me that his daughter...
Página 5 - I took my leave, with a ftrong injunction to make me acquainted in cafe me fhould happen to relapfe. Before I conclude, it may not be improper to obferve, that fome time ago I was fortunate enough to cure a boy who had long had the St. Vitus's dance (though in a much lefs degree) by electricity. A violent convulfive difeafe, fomewhat fimilar to the above, though, if I recollect right, not attended with the aphonia, was fuccefsfully treated in the fame way by Dr.
Página 51 - ... he put them into a large tub that was more than one-third filled with clean water: he then, with great labour, worked the tub to and fro for 'many hours together, that the friction between the grains of iron by this treatment might break off fuch fmaller parts as would remain fufpended in the water for a time.
Página 189 - ... by leaving even his food to attend to it when the organ was playing: and about midsummer 1777, he would touch the key-note of his particular favourite tunes, in order to persuade his father to play them. Soon after this, as he was unable to...