The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., 2. osa,15. köideThomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 495
... latitude by his meridian altitude ; directions for finding the latitude by certain stars ; of the course of the sun and moon ; the length of the days ; of time and its divisions ; the method of finding the hour of the day and night ...
... latitude by his meridian altitude ; directions for finding the latitude by certain stars ; of the course of the sun and moon ; the length of the days ; of time and its divisions ; the method of finding the hour of the day and night ...
Page 496
... latitude , & c . , founded on the supposition that the ship has sailed on a rhumb line , will in con- sequence be in some measure erroneous . No- nius also invented the method of subdividing the divisions on circular instruments by ...
... latitude , & c . , founded on the supposition that the ship has sailed on a rhumb line , will in con- sequence be in some measure erroneous . No- nius also invented the method of subdividing the divisions on circular instruments by ...
Page 497
... latitude , in a general chart , he speaks only of particular maps ; and advises not to confine a system of such maps to one and the same scale , but to plan them out by a different measure , as occasion might require : only with this ...
... latitude , in a general chart , he speaks only of particular maps ; and advises not to confine a system of such maps to one and the same scale , but to plan them out by a different measure , as occasion might require : only with this ...
Page 498
... latitude will always fall short of the true change of longi- tude ; that by the geometrical mean will always exceed ; but that by the arithmetical mean falls short in latitudes above 45 ° , and exceeds in les- ser latitudes . However ...
... latitude will always fall short of the true change of longi- tude ; that by the geometrical mean will always exceed ; but that by the arithmetical mean falls short in latitudes above 45 ° , and exceeds in les- ser latitudes . However ...
Page 499
... latitudes , supposed on the same side of the equator , is to the following effect : Take the logarithmic tan- gent , rejecting the radius , of half each latitude , augmented by 45 ° ; divide the difference of those numbers by the ...
... latitudes , supposed on the same side of the equator , is to the following effect : Take the logarithmic tan- gent , rejecting the radius , of half each latitude , augmented by 45 ° ; divide the difference of those numbers by the ...
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Page 668 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 453 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Page 607 - Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore : While the pent ocean rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated...
Page 637 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Page 417 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Page 646 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Page 700 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 646 - To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Page 641 - The motions of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest, or moves uniformly forward in a right line without any circular motion.
Page 751 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.