The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 |
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... considered as useless ; but professor Proust says , that five parts of it , with one of charcoal and one of sulphur , will burn three times as long as common powder , so as to form an œconomical com- position for fire - works . Nitrate ...
... considered as useless ; but professor Proust says , that five parts of it , with one of charcoal and one of sulphur , will burn three times as long as common powder , so as to form an œconomical com- position for fire - works . Nitrate ...
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... considered with regard to number . See GRAMMAR . NUMBERS , in poetry , oratory , music , & c . certain measures , proportions , or ca- dences , which render a verse , period , or song , agreeable to the ear . are NUMERAL letters , those ...
... considered with regard to number . See GRAMMAR . NUMBERS , in poetry , oratory , music , & c . certain measures , proportions , or ca- dences , which render a verse , period , or song , agreeable to the ear . are NUMERAL letters , those ...
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... , putting out branches almost their whole length , covered with a greyish bark . The olive , in all ages , has been held in peculiar estimation , as the bounteous gift of Heaven ; it is still considered as emble matic OLD OLI.
... , putting out branches almost their whole length , covered with a greyish bark . The olive , in all ages , has been held in peculiar estimation , as the bounteous gift of Heaven ; it is still considered as emble matic OLD OLI.
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... considered by Sir Isaac Newton , in his Optics . Indeed optics make a con- siderable branch of natural philosophy ; both as it explains the laws of nature , ac- cording to which vision is performed , and as it accounts for abundance of ...
... considered by Sir Isaac Newton , in his Optics . Indeed optics make a con- siderable branch of natural philosophy ; both as it explains the laws of nature , ac- cording to which vision is performed , and as it accounts for abundance of ...
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... considered as passing directly through the glass . If parallel rays , ab ( fig . 1 ) fall upon a plano - convex lens , cd , they will be so re- fracted , as to unite in a point , c , behind it ; and this point is called the " principal ...
... considered as passing directly through the glass . If parallel rays , ab ( fig . 1 ) fall upon a plano - convex lens , cd , they will be so re- fracted , as to unite in a point , c , behind it ; and this point is called the " principal ...
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