Systematic Education: Or Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature and Science; with Practical Rules for Studying Each Branch of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... side the ful- crum , and multiplied together , balance each other as 2 x 20 5 x 8 . If , instead of the weights W and P , the end B of the lever , fig . 1 , be put under a stone , log of wood , & c . and a man pull or press down the ...
... side the ful- crum , and multiplied together , balance each other as 2 x 20 5 x 8 . If , instead of the weights W and P , the end B of the lever , fig . 1 , be put under a stone , log of wood , & c . and a man pull or press down the ...
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... up heavy bodies , as casks , wheel - barrows , & c . and to it may be reduced hatchets , chissels , and other edged tools , that are chamferred off on one side only , A wedge , in the common form , is made 12 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
... up heavy bodies , as casks , wheel - barrows , & c . and to it may be reduced hatchets , chissels , and other edged tools , that are chamferred off on one side only , A wedge , in the common form , is made 12 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... sides , when the thickness , DG , fig . 14 , of the wedge , is to the length of the two sides , BF and DO , or as half the thickness DE of the wedge , at its back , is to the length of one of its sides , so is the power to the resist ...
... sides , when the thickness , DG , fig . 14 , of the wedge , is to the length of the two sides , BF and DO , or as half the thickness DE of the wedge , at its back , is to the length of one of its sides , so is the power to the resist ...
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... high as the tube is long . The pressure on each square inch of the side of a vessel , or on each square foot of the bank of a river or reservoir of water , continually increases in descending to the bottom . 24 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
... high as the tube is long . The pressure on each square inch of the side of a vessel , or on each square foot of the bank of a river or reservoir of water , continually increases in descending to the bottom . 24 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
Σελίδα 27
... side being the middle point , the pressure on each of the upright sides would be half as great as the pressure on the bottom , that is , since the pressure upon the bottom is equal to the weight of the water , and that on one side is ...
... side being the middle point , the pressure on each of the upright sides would be half as great as the pressure on the bottom , that is , since the pressure upon the bottom is equal to the weight of the water , and that on one side is ...
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Σελίδα 441 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Σελίδα 354 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Σελίδα 478 - It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another.
Σελίδα 97 - When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited ; platina melted as readily in it as wax in the flame of a common candle ; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion...
Σελίδα 492 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would, of course, be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Σελίδα 321 - MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
Σελίδα 113 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Σελίδα 495 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law, and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Σελίδα 489 - It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
Σελίδα 475 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.