The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... parallel with that plane , imaginative grasp of abstract geometrical principles he necessarily appear to describe right lines ; but when the cannot be compared with Fermat , Descartes , or Pascal , to earth is above or below the ...
... parallel with that plane , imaginative grasp of abstract geometrical principles he necessarily appear to describe right lines ; but when the cannot be compared with Fermat , Descartes , or Pascal , to earth is above or below the ...
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... parallel magnets , whose magnetic moments are as nearly as possible equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 ...
... parallel magnets , whose magnetic moments are as nearly as possible equal , and which are turned opposite ways . The whole system is suspended so that one of the magnets swings inside the multiplier and the other over it , as in fig . 2 ...
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... parallel to the windings . If the multiplier be movable about a vertical axis through angles which can be measured in any way , the instrument may be used as a sine compass . The current is applied and the multiplier turned round after ...
... parallel to the windings . If the multiplier be movable about a vertical axis through angles which can be measured in any way , the instrument may be used as a sine compass . The current is applied and the multiplier turned round after ...
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... parallel to the windings . It is easy to see that this may be done by means of the arrangement described above for inding the constant of a galvanometer . If the object simply is to alibrate the galvanometer without reducing its ...
... parallel to the windings . It is easy to see that this may be done by means of the arrangement described above for inding the constant of a galvanometer . If the object simply is to alibrate the galvanometer without reducing its ...
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... parallel streets , from which others diverge in various direc- tions . A great fire which occurred in 1854 was taken ad- vantage of for the carrying out of improvements in the old part of the town , and it is now much less crowded than ...
... parallel streets , from which others diverge in various direc- tions . A great fire which occurred in 1854 was taken ad- vantage of for the carrying out of improvements in the old part of the town , and it is now much less crowded than ...
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