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Page 95 - Latinis etiam litteris con8 tineri; eoque me minus instituti mei paenitet quod facile sentio quam multorum non modo discendi sed etiam scribendi studia commoverim. Complures enim Graecis institutionibus eruditi ea quae didicerant cum civibus suis communicare non poterant, quod ilia quae a Graecis accepissent Latine dici posse diffiderent: quo in genere tantum profecisse videmur ut a Graecis ne verborum quidem copia vincere9 mur.
Page 161 - If two forces acting perpendicularly at the extremities of the arms of any lever balance each other, they are inversely as the arms. Prop. 6. If two forces acting at any angles on the arms of any lever balance each other, they are inversely as the perpendiculars drawn from the fulcrum to the directions in which the forces act.
Page 162 - Prop. 8. When a body of uniform density floats on a fluid, the part immersed : the whole body :: the specific gravity of the body : the specific gravity of the fluid.
Page 13 - Id hoc facilius eis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur : una ex parte flumine Rheno, latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit ; altera ex parte monte Jura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.
Page 14 - Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non exspectandum sibi statuit, dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos Helvetii pervenirent. xn. Flumen est Arar, quod per fines Aeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat judicari non possit.
Page 155 - The logarithm of a quotient is equal to the logarithm of the dividend minus the logarithm of the divisor.