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Page 60 - 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 227 - Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it.
Page 228 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Page 32 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...
Page 90 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 228 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 55 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Page 157 - It is bounded on the North by the Arctic Ocean ; on the East by the Pacific Ocean ; on the South by the Indian Ocean ; and on the West by the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Oural Mountains.
Page 97 - Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third ; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the middle term was reduced into.
Page 19 - ... When a straight line standing on another straight line, makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it. 11. An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle. 12. An acute angle is that which is less than a right angle. 13. A term or boundary is the extremity of any thing.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A general view of the sciences and arts, Volume 1 A general view of the sciences and arts, William Jillard Hort |
| Author | William Jillard Hort |
| Published | 1822 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2006 |
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