A General History of Mathematics from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century. Tr. from the French of John [!] Bossut ... To which is Affixed a Chronological Table of the Most Eminent MathematiciansJ. Johnson, 1803 - 540 pages |
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Page 115
... glasses is employed , are much more accurate than those of the ancient astronomers , who observed the stars merely through vanes by means of the naked eye . But in questions , where the inevitable errours of observations are diffused ...
... glasses is employed , are much more accurate than those of the ancient astronomers , who observed the stars merely through vanes by means of the naked eye . But in questions , where the inevitable errours of observations are diffused ...
Page 135
... glass was likewise known , for which , according to Pliny , mankind were indebted to accident . Some merchants , who traded in mineral alkali [ nitrum ] , having occasion to dress their victuals on the borders of the river Belus , in ...
... glass was likewise known , for which , according to Pliny , mankind were indebted to accident . Some merchants , who traded in mineral alkali [ nitrum ] , having occasion to dress their victuals on the borders of the river Belus , in ...
Page 136
... glass had made considerable progress , and the use of burning glasses was already become very common . This the following passage from the second act of the Clouds of Aristophanes shows . : The author introduces Socrates giving lessons ...
... glass had made considerable progress , and the use of burning glasses was already become very common . This the following passage from the second act of the Clouds of Aristophanes shows . : The author introduces Socrates giving lessons ...
Page 137
... glass , at the focus in which the solar rays would unite , after having traversed the thickness of the spherical lens , which would occasion no difficulty , no embarrassment , in putting it into practice . The third mode is equally easy ...
... glass , at the focus in which the solar rays would unite , after having traversed the thickness of the spherical lens , which would occasion no difficulty , no embarrassment , in putting it into practice . The third mode is equally easy ...
Page 138
... glass would not have collected into one focus a quantity of solar rays any thing like sufficient , to produce a fire ... glasses of the same kind for all these glasses , exposed at the same time to the Sun , to produce a simultaneous ...
... glass would not have collected into one focus a quantity of solar rays any thing like sufficient , to produce a fire ... glasses of the same kind for all these glasses , exposed at the same time to the Sun , to produce a simultaneous ...
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Page 61 - ... any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to Mechanics, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual speculations, which, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth and demonstration only.
Page 61 - ... he did not think the inventing of them an object worthy of his serious studies, but only reckoned them among the amusements of geometry. Nor had he gone so far, but at the pressing instances of...
Page 163 - In the dial-plate there were twelve small windows, corresponding with the divisions of the hours. The hours were indicated by the opening of the windows, which let out little metallic balls, which struck the hour by falling upon a brazen bell.
Page 138 - AVhcu a summons is sent to me I will take this stone, and, placing myself in the sun, I will, though at a distance, melt all the writing of the summons.
Page 30 - ... to have led to the discoveries of other geometrical properties, as the conchoid of Nicomedes, the cissoid of Diocles, and the quadratrix of Dinostratus. This latter geometrician was the follower and friend of Plato, whose devotion to the science of geometry was such that he caused it to be inscribed over the door of his school, ' Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry.
Page 61 - Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing.
Page 65 - The reason is, all bodies lose some of their weight in a fluid, and the weight which a body loses in a fluid, is to its whole weight, as the specific gravity of the fluid is to that of the body.
Page 95 - Sunt Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer. Leo, Virgo, Libraque, Scorpius, Arcitenens, Caper, Amphora, Pisces.
Page 297 - This is the same as saying that when a ray of light passes out of one medium into another, the...
Page 248 - Huyghens demonstrated that the velocity of a body descending down any curve, is the same at every instant, in the direction of the tangent, as it would have...
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| Title | A General History of Mathematics from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century. Tr. from the French of John [!] Bossut ... To which is Affixed a Chronological Table of the Most Eminent Mathematicians |
| Author | Charles Bossut |
| Translated by | John Bonnycastle |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 May 2006 |
| Length | 540 pages |
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