 Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very...  Animal Intelligence - Page 161by George John Romanes - 1888 - 520 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 lehte
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of maxima... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 lehte
...determined precisely the angle re" quired ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the " subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the " three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do " actually meet. " Shall we ask here who taught the bee the properties of so" lids, and to resolve problems of... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 lehte
...accordingly been resolved by some mathematicians, particularly by the ingenious Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the transactions...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet! It has been therefore demonstrated (as far as geometry and mathematics can show it), that bees... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 lehte
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration, the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet."* * Reid's Essays. The same curious fact was ascertained by a German mathematician. It was discovered... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 198 lehte
...He has determined the angle required ; and he found by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey comb do actually meet." Another curious example of philosophical instinct is the web of the spider.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 lehte
...angle required. Upon the most exact mensuration which the subject could admit, he afterwards found, ނ Β ׂZ %~39 ͢ |_S *:K 8 < |# Ou[E+ ~ ^Y1 "p @ : L honey-comV do actually meet. Shall we ask here, Who taught the bees the properties of solids, and to... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 lehte
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of maxima... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 lehte
...compose the bottom ought to meet. The late celebrated mathematician, Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculus, determined precisely the angle required; and he found,...very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. The same curious fact was ascertained by a German mathematician... | |
 | 1834 - 508 lehte
...the bottom ought to meet. The late celebrated mathematician. Mac lam in, by a fluSionury calculus, determined precisely the angle required; and he found,...very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. The same curious fact was ascertained by a German mathematician... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 lehte
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most elact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we ask here,who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of maxima... | |
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