 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 C. Upham - 1841 - 496 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 planes in the bottom of the ceil of a honeycomb do actually meet. " Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 lehte
...required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the veiy angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet. " Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 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... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 lehte
...found in the Transactions of the Royal Society. Upon the most exact mensurations he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell of a honeycomb do actually meet." But who taught the bees mathematics, and taught them to solve... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 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 honeycomb do actually meet. " Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1846 - 660 lehte
...angle required. Upon the most exact mensuration which the subject could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes...the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet. This is one of those problems belonging to the higher parts of mathematics, and much the same... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 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 honeycomb do actually meet. How is all this to be explained ? Imitation it certainly is not; for, after every old bee has... | |
 | 1850 - 744 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 planes in the bottom of the cell of the honey-comb do actually meet. How is all this to be explained ? Imitation it certainly is not ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 lehte
...meet, in order te make the greatest saving, or the least expense, of material and labour ; and this is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell do actually meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 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... | |
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