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Page 221 - The spectrum, formed by a glass prism, being divided into 360 parts, it is found that the red occupies 45 of those parts, the orange 27, the yellow 48, the green 60, the blue 60, the indigo 40, and the violet 80...
Page 155 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 145 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Page 138 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 134 - Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient. Multiply the whole divisor by the first term of the quotient, and subtract the product from the dividend.
Page 188 - ... that the velocity with which water spouts from holes in the side of a vessel, is in proportion to the square root of the distance of the holes below the surface of the water...
Page 80 - Switzerland, and pass between the sources of the Danube, and of the branches of the Rhine, in Swabia. Crossing Franconia, we leave Bohemia to the north, in order to avoid the Elbe ; and coming near to the borders of Austria, follow those of Hungary to the south of the Vistula. The...
Page 158 - The section is an hyperbola, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
Page 54 - The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven, Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Page 142 - That the line which bisects the vertical angle of an isosceles triangle, bisects the base, and is perpendicular to it.