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" Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very... "
A Catechism of Natural Theology - Page 154
by Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 184 pages
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Essays on the Active Powers of Man: By Thomas Reid, ...

Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 pages
...determined precifely the angle required ; and he found, by the moft exact menfuration the fubjed could -JI- admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we afk here, who taught the bee the properties of folids, and to...
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 16

James Anderson - 1793 - 390 pages
...in the transactions of the royal society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required j and he found by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the v«ry angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall...
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A Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences, Opening to Mental View the System ...

Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 pages
...angle required. Upon the moft exact menfuration which the fubjecT could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. If a honeycomb were a work of human art, every man of common -fen fe would...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind, Volume 3

Thomas Reid - 1803 - 734 pages
...determined precifely the angle required ; and he found, by the moft- exact menfuration the fubject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the...bottom of the cell of a honey- comb do actually meet. Shall we afk here, who taught the bee the properties of folids, and to refolve problems of maxima and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject would admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. The same curious fact was ascertained by a German mathematician...
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Henry and Acasto, a moral tale [in verse].

Brian Hill - 1816 - 128 pages
...he heard, and more inform'd he grew. mensuration which the subject could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb actually do meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bees the properties of solids, and to...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 12

1816 - 764 pages
...angle required. Upon the moft exaft menfuration which the fubjeft could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we alk here, Who taught the bees the properties of folids. and tu...
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The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 3

Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 pages
...which is to be found in the transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact...which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 11

1823 - 862 pages
...found, that it is the very angle in which instincts, and of which the object seems to be to de'' * the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey- grade mankind to the level of brute», has very laudably ' comb do actually meet. exerted his endeavours...
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Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations

Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...determined precisely the angle required, and he found by the most exact mensuration si the subject would admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet." It has been therefore demonstrated, (as far as geometry and mathematics...
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