The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Τόμος 1Whittingham, 1809 |
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... motion of the heavenly bodies , pro- duced by the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in her orbit . Since light proceeds always in right lines , when its motion is perfectly undisturbed , if a fine tube were ...
... motion of the heavenly bodies , pro- duced by the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in her orbit . Since light proceeds always in right lines , when its motion is perfectly undisturbed , if a fine tube were ...
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... motion , will be more or less , according as that motion may be . It will be least when the planet is station- ary ; and greatest in the superior planets , when they are in opposition ; but in the in- ferior planets the aberration is ...
... motion , will be more or less , according as that motion may be . It will be least when the planet is station- ary ; and greatest in the superior planets , when they are in opposition ; but in the in- ferior planets the aberration is ...
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... motion . GRAVITATION . See ACCELERATOR . See ANATOMY . ACCENT , among grammarians , is the raising or lowering of the voice in pronounc- ing certain syllables of words .. We have three kinds of accents , viz . the acute , the grave ...
... motion . GRAVITATION . See ACCELERATOR . See ANATOMY . ACCENT , among grammarians , is the raising or lowering of the voice in pronounc- ing certain syllables of words .. We have three kinds of accents , viz . the acute , the grave ...
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... motion in the parts of the air . If we have an exact idea of the crawling of some insects , we shall have a tolerable no- tion of the progression of sound upon this hypothesis . The insect , for instance , in its motion , first carries ...
... motion in the parts of the air . If we have an exact idea of the crawling of some insects , we shall have a tolerable no- tion of the progression of sound upon this hypothesis . The insect , for instance , in its motion , first carries ...
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... motions , the stronger is the sound . If the tube be laid on any non - elastic substance , it deadens the sound , because it prevents the vibratory motion of the parts . The sound is increased in speaking - trumpets , if the tube be ...
... motions , the stronger is the sound . If the tube be laid on any non - elastic substance , it deadens the sound , because it prevents the vibratory motion of the parts . The sound is increased in speaking - trumpets , if the tube be ...
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Σελίδα 154 - The dexterity of hand, indeed, even in common trades, cannot be acquired without much practice and experience. But a young man would practise with much more diligence and attention if, from the beginning, he wrought as a journeyman, being paid in proportion to the little work which he could execute, and paying in his turn for the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience.
Σελίδα 124 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Σελίδα 152 - It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them, occasions a very important inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock .... Thirdly, the policy of Europe, by obstructing the free circulation of labour and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place...
Σελίδα 153 - When those particular incorporations which are now peculiarly called universities were first established, the term of years which it was necessary to study, in order to obtain the degree of master of arts, appears evidently to have been copied from the term of apprenticeship in common trades, of which the incorporations were much more ancient.