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... must be sensible that that Course is not drawn up in a Manner proper to introduce Learners to those difficult Sciences , as , in feveral of the Volumes , the difficult Parts of the Subjects are treated of before the more easy , & c . Of ...
... must be sensible that that Course is not drawn up in a Manner proper to introduce Learners to those difficult Sciences , as , in feveral of the Volumes , the difficult Parts of the Subjects are treated of before the more easy , & c . Of ...
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... must not expect any Theorems , & c . which cannot be demonstrated by the foregoing ; so that if he happens to find any valuable Things omitted , in any Effay of ours , which he has seen in any other Work , we would not have him think we ...
... must not expect any Theorems , & c . which cannot be demonstrated by the foregoing ; so that if he happens to find any valuable Things omitted , in any Effay of ours , which he has seen in any other Work , we would not have him think we ...
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... must not however forget Mr. Dodson's Antilogarithmic Canon , published in the Year 1742 ; being a Table of Numbers , confifting of 11 Places of Figures , corresponding to all Logarithms under 100000 ; which indeed is a laborious and ...
... must not however forget Mr. Dodson's Antilogarithmic Canon , published in the Year 1742 ; being a Table of Numbers , confifting of 11 Places of Figures , corresponding to all Logarithms under 100000 ; which indeed is a laborious and ...
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... must be confidered as negative . 17. It is also evident from Inspection of the above Series , that if a Number , having an affirmative Lo- garithm , is divided by another Number whose Loga- rithm is a greater affirmative Number , the ...
... must be confidered as negative . 17. It is also evident from Inspection of the above Series , that if a Number , having an affirmative Lo- garithm , is divided by another Number whose Loga- rithm is a greater affirmative Number , the ...
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... must be one less than the Number of Pla- ces : But if the Number , whose Logarithm is re- quired , be above 10000 , then , find the Logarithm of the two nearest Numbers to it that can be found in in the Table , and say , As their ...
... must be one less than the Number of Pla- ces : But if the Number , whose Logarithm is re- quired , be above 10000 , then , find the Logarithm of the two nearest Numbers to it that can be found in in the Table , and say , As their ...
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Page 31 - The lines do not run in a uniform direction from the left to the right, or from the right to the left...
Page 108 - AB, remains the same as it was : Nor is it part of the length of the line AB ; for, if AB be removed from the line KB, the point B, which is the extremity of the line KB, does...
Page 121 - If a point be taken within a circle, from which there fall more than two equal straight lines to the circumference, that point is the centre of the circle. Let...
Page 15 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, and the sides about the equal angles proportionals, the triangles shall be equiangular, and shall have those angles equal which are opposite to the homologous sides.
Page 43 - ... magnitude. For example, if A, B, C, D be four magnitudes of the same kind, the first A is said to have to the last D the ratio compounded of the ratio of A to B, and of the ratio of B to C, and of the ratio of C to D; or, the ratio of A to D is said to be compounded of the ratios of A to B, B to C, and C to D. And if...
Page 107 - It is necessary to consider a solid, that is, a magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness, in order to understand aright the definitions of a point, line and superficies ; for these all arise from a solid, and exist in it ; The boundary, or boundaries which contain a solid, are called superficies, or the boundary which is common to two solids which are contiguous, or which divides one solid into two contiguous parts, is called a superficies...
Page 43 - When three magnitudes are proportionals, the first is said to have to the third the duplicate ratio of that which it has to the second.
Page 64 - ... is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example, ten degrees, eighteen minutes, and fourteen seconds, would be written 10° 18
Page 18 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 108 - KBCL which is contiguous to it, this boundary BC is called a line, and has no breadth : For if it have any, this...