The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 25. köideThomas Spencer Baynes Werner Company, 1895 |
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... force under Admiral Boscawen , and by the return home , on leave , of Major Lawrence . But that officer had appointed Clive commissary for the supply of the troops with provisions , with the rank of captain . More than one disaster had ...
... force under Admiral Boscawen , and by the return home , on leave , of Major Lawrence . But that officer had appointed Clive commissary for the supply of the troops with provisions , with the rank of captain . More than one disaster had ...
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... force of 34,000 men with 40 pieces of heavy cannon , 50 elephants , and a camp that extended upwards of four miles in length . His own account , in a letter to the archbishop of Canterbury , gives a modest but vivid description of the ...
... force of 34,000 men with 40 pieces of heavy cannon , 50 elephants , and a camp that extended upwards of four miles in length . His own account , in a letter to the archbishop of Canterbury , gives a modest but vivid description of the ...
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... force , not only to the number and strength of the princes and people of India , but to the claims and ambition of French , Dutch , and Danish rivals , that Clive's last advice to the directors , as he finally left India in 1777 , was ...
... force , not only to the number and strength of the princes and people of India , but to the claims and ambition of French , Dutch , and Danish rivals , that Clive's last advice to the directors , as he finally left India in 1777 , was ...
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... force on the pendulum so constant that its arc may never sensibly vary . The difference between the time of any small are of the circle and any arc of the cycloid varics nearly as the square of the circular urc ; and again , the ...
... force on the pendulum so constant that its arc may never sensibly vary . The difference between the time of any small are of the circle and any arc of the cycloid varics nearly as the square of the circular urc ; and again , the ...
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... force = w2 Isin . a ; and as this is the force which keeps the pendulum away from the vertical , it must balance the force which draws it to the vertical , which is g tan . a : and therefore g the angular velocity , or the angle de ...
... force = w2 Isin . a ; and as this is the force which keeps the pendulum away from the vertical , it must balance the force which draws it to the vertical , which is g tan . a : and therefore g the angular velocity , or the angle de ...
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