A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as Well of the Various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures, and Schemes Necessary for Illustrating Them, as of the Classes, Kinds, Preparations, and Uses of Natural Productions, Whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, Or Fluids; Together with the Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns, and Other Remarkable Places Throughout the World, Band 2W. Owen, 1763 - 3510 Seiten |
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... italians call defcanto , and intimates , that the treble ought to play alone , as T does the tenor , and B the bafs . See the article DESCANT . D C , in the italian mufic , an abbrevi- ation of da capo , that is , from the head , or ...
... italians call defcanto , and intimates , that the treble ought to play alone , as T does the tenor , and B the bafs . See the article DESCANT . D C , in the italian mufic , an abbrevi- ation of da capo , that is , from the head , or ...
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... Italian hours . The Jews alfo began their nychthemeron at fun - fetting ; but then they divided it into twice twelve hours , as we do , reckoning twelve for the day , be it long or short , and twelve for the night ; fo that their hours ...
... Italian hours . The Jews alfo began their nychthemeron at fun - fetting ; but then they divided it into twice twelve hours , as we do , reckoning twelve for the day , be it long or short , and twelve for the night ; fo that their hours ...
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... Italy at the folemn feafts . See the article FES- TOON , VASE , & c . DECORATION alfo fignifies the scenes of theatres . See the article SCENE . In operas and other theatrical perform- ances , they must be often changed , in conformity ...
... Italy at the folemn feafts . See the article FES- TOON , VASE , & c . DECORATION alfo fignifies the scenes of theatres . See the article SCENE . In operas and other theatrical perform- ances , they must be often changed , in conformity ...
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... Italy , Portugal , & c . Among us , they are found foffile in clay - pits , fome fmooth , fome ftriated ; but in much greater abundance in the mountains of France and Italy . plate LXIX . fig . 4 . See The true officinal dentalium is ...
... Italy , Portugal , & c . Among us , they are found foffile in clay - pits , fome fmooth , fome ftriated ; but in much greater abundance in the mountains of France and Italy . plate LXIX . fig . 4 . See The true officinal dentalium is ...
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... italian , poco duri purche m ' inalzi ; exprefling , that he preferred a fhort life , provided he might thereby at- tain to glory and eminence . The Italians have reduced the making devifes into an art , fome of the principal laws ...
... italian , poco duri purche m ' inalzi ; exprefling , that he preferred a fhort life , provided he might thereby at- tain to glory and eminence . The Italians have reduced the making devifes into an art , fome of the principal laws ...
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Seite 1053 - 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 1053 - 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 electrified, and the loose filaments of the twine will stand out every way, and be attracted by an approaching finger.
Seite 949 - It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter.
Seite 1158 - Add to this, that many of those ideas are produced in us with pain, which afterwards we remember without the least offence. Thus, the pain of heat or cold, when the idea of it is revived in our minds, gives us no disturbance; which, when felt, was very troublesome, and is again, when actually repeated ; which is occasioned by the disorder the external object causes in our bodies when applied to it.
Seite 1078 - When at a siege the engineers have narrowly surveyed the place, they are to make their report to the general, by acquainting him which part they judge the weakest, and where approaches may be made with most success. Their business is also to delineate the lines of circumvallation and contravallation, taking all the advantages of the ground; to mark out the trenches, places of arms, batteries, and lodgments, taking care that none of their works be flanked or discovered from the place. After making...
Seite 953 - ... no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us.
Seite 1253 - FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks, by pouring melted wax on their top, and letting it run down to the bottom. This done, they lay them to dry, after which they roll them on a table, and join four of them together by means of a red-hot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought to the size required. Flambeaus are of different lengths, and made either of white or yellow wax. They serve to give light in the streets at night, 'or on occasion of illuminations.
Seite 1166 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by Induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger by how much the Induction is more general.
Seite 1165 - ... of the descent of stones in Europe and America, of light in a culinary fire and in the sun, and of the reflection of light in the earth and in the planets.
Seite 1016 - It is true, the surface of the earth is not an exact geometrical globe ; but the inequalities are so inconsiderable, that the highest mountain bears no greater proportion to the bulk of the earth, than a grain of dust does to a common globe. The figure of the earth, then, was reckoned by mathematicians and geographers as perfectly spherical, excepting the small inequalities on its surface, of mountains and vallies ; till an accident engaged the attention of sir Isaac Newton, and M.