Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics: Including Arithmetic, Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, Pneumatics : Together with Amusing Secrets in Various Branches of Science, the Whole Calculated to Form an Agreeable and Improving Exercise for the MindA. K. Newman, 1821 - 276 Seiten |
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... , arming himself with the thunder of his eloquence , had pointed out to him , in a direct manner , the horror of his offence . Does not Solomon desire the sluggard and the spendthrift to consider the ways of the ant ; and 4 PREFACE .
... , arming himself with the thunder of his eloquence , had pointed out to him , in a direct manner , the horror of his offence . Does not Solomon desire the sluggard and the spendthrift to consider the ways of the ant ; and 4 PREFACE .
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... Desire the person , who has thought of a number , to triple it , and to take the exact half of that triple if it be even , or the greater half if it be odd . Then desire him to triple that half , and ask him how many times it contains 9 ...
... Desire the person , who has thought of a number , to triple it , and to take the exact half of that triple if it be even , or the greater half if it be odd . Then desire him to triple that half , and ask him how many times it contains 9 ...
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... desire him to add unity to the number thought of , and to multiply it also by itself ; in the last place , ask him to tell the difference of these two products , which will certainly be an odd number , and the least half of it will be ...
... desire him to add unity to the number thought of , and to multiply it also by itself ; in the last place , ask him to tell the difference of these two products , which will certainly be an odd number , and the least half of it will be ...
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... Desire any person to think of a number , but that we may not speak in too abstract a manner , it will be best to desire him to think of a certain number of guineas . 2d . Tell the person that some one of the company lends him a similar ...
... Desire any person to think of a number , but that we may not speak in too abstract a manner , it will be best to desire him to think of a certain number of guineas . 2d . Tell the person that some one of the company lends him a similar ...
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... desire him to multiply the whole by 5 , and to add to the product the second number . If there be a third , make him double this first sum and add 1 to it ; after which desire him to multiply the new sum by 5 , and to add to it the ...
... desire him to multiply the whole by 5 , and to add to the product the second number . If there be a third , make him double this first sum and add 1 to it ; after which desire him to multiply the new sum by 5 , and to add to it the ...
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Seite 194 - To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine, next the hand, .is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened.
Seite 242 - In ten or twelve hoiirs afterwards, if the weather be warm, the earth will swell up and burst, and flames will issue out> which will enlarge the aperture, scattering around a yellow and blackish dust. It is not impossible, that what is here seen in miniature takes place on a grand scale in volcanoes ; as it is well known that they always, furnish abundance of sulphur, and also metallic substances.
Seite 195 - At this key the phial may be charged; and from electric fire thus obtained, spirits may be kindled, and all the other electric experiments be performed, which are usually done by the help of a rubbed glass globe or tube, and thereby the sameness of the electric matter with that of lightning completely demonstrated.
Seite 187 - Two small hemispheres of wood are then fixed with cement to the middle of the upper and under sides, centrally opposite, and in each of them a thick strong wire eight or ten inches long, which together make the axis of the wheel. It turns horizontally on a point at the lower end of its axis, which rests on a bit of brass cemented within a glass saltcellar. The upper end of its axis passes through a hole in a thin brass plate cemented to a long...
Seite 17 - That is, in any proportion, either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Seite 119 - The head of a fish is 7 inches long, the tail is as long as the head and |- of the body, and the body is as long as the head and tail ; what is the length of the fish ? 9.
Seite 194 - As soon as any of the thunder-clouds come over the kite the pointed wire will draw the electric fire from them, and the kite, with all the twine, will be...
Seite 78 - It may be readily seen, that the pieces, instead of being in the two hands of the same person, may be supposed to be in the hands of two persons, one "of whom has the even number, or piece of gold, and the other the odd number, or piece of silver. The same operations may then be performed in regard to these two persons, as are performed in regard to the two hands of the same person, calling the one privately the right, and the other the left.
Seite 35 - ... farthing for the first nail, two for the second, four for the third, and so on to the twenty-fourth.
Seite 76 - ... four, 555; and so on; for the remainder will be composed of figures of which the first on the left will be the first number thought of, the next the second, and so on.