British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... diameter ; and a third proportional to two conjugate diameters is called the latus rectum , or parameter of that diameter , which is the first of the three propor- tionals . The reason of the name is this : let BA , E D , be any two ...
... diameter ; and a third proportional to two conjugate diameters is called the latus rectum , or parameter of that diameter , which is the first of the three propor- tionals . The reason of the name is this : let BA , E D , be any two ...
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... diameter . In the same man- ner , the ordinates to any diameter what- ever are as the rectangles under the seg- ments of that diameter . - As to the other principal properties of the ellipsis , they may be reduced to the following ...
... diameter . In the same man- ner , the ordinates to any diameter what- ever are as the rectangles under the seg- ments of that diameter . - As to the other principal properties of the ellipsis , they may be reduced to the following ...
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... diameter and fifteen long , it has a flanch at each end , whereon to screw two covers , with stuffing boxes , a , a , in their centres , through which the spindle , B , B , of the engine passes , and being tight is a tumbler , or ...
... diameter and fifteen long , it has a flanch at each end , whereon to screw two covers , with stuffing boxes , a , a , in their centres , through which the spindle , B , B , of the engine passes , and being tight is a tumbler , or ...
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... diameter , through which water descends from the head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 fathoms long ...
... diameter , through which water descends from the head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 fathoms long ...
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... the circle at rest , as the sum of the diameters of the circles to the semidiameter of the rest- ing circle , if the revolving circle moves upon the convex side of the resting cir- cle ; but if upon the concave side , as EPI EPI.
... the circle at rest , as the sum of the diameters of the circles to the semidiameter of the rest- ing circle , if the revolving circle moves upon the convex side of the resting cir- cle ; but if upon the concave side , as EPI EPI.
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