Instructions Given in the Drawing School Established by the Dublin Society: Course of mathematicks. System of the physical world. System of the moral world. Plan of the military art. Plan of the marcantile arts. Plan of naval art. Plan of mechanic arts. The elements of EuclidA. M'Culloch, 1769 - Mathematics |
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Page ix
... Tangents , the Points of Maxima , and Minima . Fourthly , How the Areas of Curves are found by the inverse Method of Fluxions . The Conic Sections follow ; the best Method of treating them is to Best Method consider them as Lines of the ...
... Tangents , the Points of Maxima , and Minima . Fourthly , How the Areas of Curves are found by the inverse Method of Fluxions . The Conic Sections follow ; the best Method of treating them is to Best Method consider them as Lines of the ...
Page xxxiv
... tangent ( i ) ; now the Orbits of Mercury and Venus , in fome Parts , are convex to the Earth ; of confequence , the inferior Planets de not revolve round the Earth . The same may easily be proved of the fuperior Planets ; for these are ...
... tangent ( i ) ; now the Orbits of Mercury and Venus , in fome Parts , are convex to the Earth ; of confequence , the inferior Planets de not revolve round the Earth . The same may easily be proved of the fuperior Planets ; for these are ...
Page xlv
... Tangent to the Circle it describes . How the ancient phi lofophers To explain this Phenomenon , the Ancients invented their solid Orbs and Descartes Vortices , but both one and the other of those Explications and Defcar- the circula ...
... Tangent to the Circle it describes . How the ancient phi lofophers To explain this Phenomenon , the Ancients invented their solid Orbs and Descartes Vortices , but both one and the other of those Explications and Defcar- the circula ...
Page xlvi
... tangent . Newton has also shewn ( Cor . 1. Prop . 2. ) that if the Force acting on a Body , urges it to different Points , it would accelerate or retard the Description of the Areas , which would consequently be no longer proportional ...
... tangent . Newton has also shewn ( Cor . 1. Prop . 2. ) that if the Force acting on a Body , urges it to different Points , it would accelerate or retard the Description of the Areas , which would consequently be no longer proportional ...
Page xlviii
... Tangent drawn from the other Extremity increases in the fame Ratio as the Square of the Distance from the Focus ... Tangents to those Points . This Propofition is not only very interesting , confidered merely as a geo- metrical ...
... Tangent drawn from the other Extremity increases in the fame Ratio as the Square of the Distance from the Focus ... Tangents to those Points . This Propofition is not only very interesting , confidered merely as a geo- metrical ...
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Page 8 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 4 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 164 - When of the equimultiples of four magnitudes (taken as in the fifth definition), the multiple of the first is greater than that of the second, but the multiple of the third is not greater than the multiple of the fourth ; then the first is said to have to the second a greater ratio than the third magnitude has to the fourth : and, on the contrary, the third is said to have to the fourth a less ratio than the first has to the second. VIII. " Analogy, or proportion, is the similitude of ratios.
Page 165 - When four magnitudes are continual proportionals, the first is said to have to the fourth the triplicate ratio of that which it has to the second, and so on, quadruplicate, &c., increasing the denomination still by unity, in any number of proportionals.
Page 241 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Page xxviii - ... bodies that are within the sphere of their activity, and consequently, that not only the sun and moon have .an influence upon the body and motion of the earth, and the earth upon them, but that...
Page 165 - When three magnitudes are proportionals, the first is said to have to the third the duplicate ratio of that which it has to the second.
Page 226 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page xiv - Oh! qui m'arrêtera sous vos sombres asiles? Quand pourront les neuf Sœurs, loin des cours et des villes, M'occuper tout entier, et m'apprendre des deux Les divers mouvements inconnus à nos yeux, Les noms et les vertus de ces clartés errantes Par qui sont nos destins et nos mœurs différentes.
Page xxviii - Now what these several degrees are I have not yet experimentally verified; but it is a notion which, if fully prosecuted, as it ought to be, will mightily assist the astronomers to reduce all the celestial motions to a certain rule, which I doubt will never be done true without it.