American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 6Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... hyperbola . He sent home a copy of this work to his friend Mr. Collins , who communicated it to the Royal Society , where it met with the commendations of Lord Brounker and Dr. Wallis . He re- printed it at Venice the following year ...
... hyperbola . He sent home a copy of this work to his friend Mr. Collins , who communicated it to the Royal Society , where it met with the commendations of Lord Brounker and Dr. Wallis . He re- printed it at Venice the following year ...
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... hyperbola , to which that great man had started some objections ; in the course of which our author produced some im- provements of his series . But in this dispute it happened , as it generally does on such occasions , that the ...
... hyperbola , to which that great man had started some objections ; in the course of which our author produced some im- provements of his series . But in this dispute it happened , as it generally does on such occasions , that the ...
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... hyperbola , by an infinite converging series ; his method for the transformation of curves ; a geometrical demonstration of Lord Brounker's series for squaring the hyperbola ; his demonstration that the meridian line is analogous to a ...
... hyperbola , by an infinite converging series ; his method for the transformation of curves ; a geometrical demonstration of Lord Brounker's series for squaring the hyperbola ; his demonstration that the meridian line is analogous to a ...
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... HYPERBOLA , in geometry , the sec- tion , GEH , ( Plate VII . Miscel . fig . 5. ) of a cone , ABC , made by a plane , so that the axis , EF , of the section inclines to the op- posite leg of the cone , BC , which , in the parabola , is ...
... HYPERBOLA , in geometry , the sec- tion , GEH , ( Plate VII . Miscel . fig . 5. ) of a cone , ABC , made by a plane , so that the axis , EF , of the section inclines to the op- posite leg of the cone , BC , which , in the parabola , is ...
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... hyperbola , parallel to the tangent , and equal to the segment of the tangent between the asymptotes , and which is bisected in the centre , is called the se- cond diameter of that which is drawn through the point of contact . 12. A ...
... hyperbola , parallel to the tangent , and equal to the segment of the tangent between the asymptotes , and which is bisected in the centre , is called the se- cond diameter of that which is drawn through the point of contact . 12. A ...
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