The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 2, Volume 13Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Page 447
... Descartes ; and the other on the speaking trum- pet invented by Sir Samuel Morland . He is said to have studied even in his sleep , his very dreams being employed in theorems , the demon- strations of which would awaken him with joy ...
... Descartes ; and the other on the speaking trum- pet invented by Sir Samuel Morland . He is said to have studied even in his sleep , his very dreams being employed in theorems , the demon- strations of which would awaken him with joy ...
Page 675
... Descartes , and the application of algebra to geometry ; which may be emphatically termed a new era . There is some diversity of opinion as to the person who should have the honor of having first applied algebra to geometry . Some would ...
... Descartes , and the application of algebra to geometry ; which may be emphatically termed a new era . There is some diversity of opinion as to the person who should have the honor of having first applied algebra to geometry . Some would ...
Page 676
... Descartes lived was pre- eminently the age of distinguished philosophers . Bacon died in 1626 , eleven years before the geometry of Descartes was given to the world ; Kepler in 1630 ; Galileo ( whom Descartes visited at Florence ) in ...
... Descartes lived was pre- eminently the age of distinguished philosophers . Bacon died in 1626 , eleven years before the geometry of Descartes was given to the world ; Kepler in 1630 ; Galileo ( whom Descartes visited at Florence ) in ...
Page 677
... Descartes , the Clavis of Oughtred , and all such books so repul- sively unintelligible at first to other mortals , with a sort of mathematical instinct , or intuitive penetration and sagacity . What others have slowly and laboriously ...
... Descartes , the Clavis of Oughtred , and all such books so repul- sively unintelligible at first to other mortals , with a sort of mathematical instinct , or intuitive penetration and sagacity . What others have slowly and laboriously ...
Page 680
... Descartes , Fermat , D'Alem- bert , La Grange , and La Place ; Switzerland in her Euler and Bernouillis ; Italy in her Galileo , and Cavalieri ; Holland in her Huygens ; Scot- land needs not be ashamed to glory in her Mac- laurin ...
... Descartes , Fermat , D'Alem- bert , La Grange , and La Place ; Switzerland in her Euler and Bernouillis ; Italy in her Galileo , and Cavalieri ; Holland in her Huygens ; Scot- land needs not be ashamed to glory in her Mac- laurin ...
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Page 486 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 416 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 540 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 657 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 491 - The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently I wished I long believed, And, disappointed still, was still deceived.
Page 385 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 636 - It is only the effect, which that figure produces upon a mind, whose particular fabric or structure renders it susceptible of such sentiments. In vain would you look for it in the circle, or seek it, either by your senses, or by- mathematical reasonings, in all the properties of that figure.
Page 544 - For the canon law, which the common law follows in this case, deems so highly and with such mysterious reverence of the nuptial tie, that it will not allow it to be unloosed for any cause whatsoever, that arises after the union is made.
Page 435 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 542 - Now these disabilities are of two sorts: first, such as are canonical, and therefore sufficient by the ecclesiastical laws to avoid the marriage in the spiritual court; but these in our law only make the marriage voidable, and not ipso facto void, until sentence of nullity be obtained.