Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 378 pages |
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... probably , be calculated at two - pence . As the boys advance in learning , the wages to the master are increased to four - pence , and as far as eight - pence . * The pen employed by the Hindus for writing on paper , is a small reed ...
... probably , be calculated at two - pence . As the boys advance in learning , the wages to the master are increased to four - pence , and as far as eight - pence . * The pen employed by the Hindus for writing on paper , is a small reed ...
Page 44
... probably , never to as- certain the origin of a science , which was not delivered ready written , like a book of laws , but progressively carried on and improved , through the course of numer- ous succeeding ages . distant regions of ...
... probably , never to as- certain the origin of a science , which was not delivered ready written , like a book of laws , but progressively carried on and improved , through the course of numer- ous succeeding ages . distant regions of ...
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... probably been sug- gested to them by some very particular view , which they have taken , of the nature and properties of the circle . As to the ac- curacy of the measure here assigned to the radius , viz . 3,438 of the parts of which ...
... probably been sug- gested to them by some very particular view , which they have taken , of the nature and properties of the circle . As to the ac- curacy of the measure here assigned to the radius , viz . 3,438 of the parts of which ...
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... probably enable us to resolve . " " No mention is made in this trigonome- try , of tangents or secants : a circumstance not wonderful , when we consider that the use of these was introduced in Europe no longer ago than the middle of the ...
... probably enable us to resolve . " " No mention is made in this trigonome- try , of tangents or secants : a circumstance not wonderful , when we consider that the use of these was introduced in Europe no longer ago than the middle of the ...
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... probably not ignorant of it , as having any connexion with the matter he had in hand . He therefore founded his calcula- tions on another proposition , containing a property of quadrilateral figures inscribed in a circle , which he ...
... probably not ignorant of it , as having any connexion with the matter he had in hand . He therefore founded his calcula- tions on another proposition , containing a property of quadrilateral figures inscribed in a circle , which he ...
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