Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects: In Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling, Volume 1 |
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Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics ..., Volume 2 James Ferguson Volledige weergave - 1806 |
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Pagina xxxiii - ... whole in a wooden case very little bigger than a breakfast tea-cup ; but a clumsy neighbour one day looking at my watch, happened to let it fall, and turning hastily about to pick it up, set his foot upon it, and crushed it all to pieces ; which so provoked my father, that he was almost ready to beat the man, and discouraged me so much that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.
Pagina xxxv - I was sent for by other ladies in the country, and began to think myself growing very rich by the money I got for such drawings, out of which I had the pleasure of occasionally supplying the wants of my poor father.
Pagina 10 - The broader the base is, and the nearer the line of direction is to the middle or centre of it, the more firmly does the body stand. On the contrary, the narrower the base, and the nearer the line of direction is to the side of it, the more easily may the body be overthrown...
Pagina 58 - The proportion for the wheel and axle (in which the power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight is raised by a rope, which coils...
Pagina 221 - Set a lighted candle upon the pump, and cover it with a tall receiver. If the receiver holds a gallon, the candle will burn a minute ; and then, after having gradually decayed from the first...
Pagina xxxv - So excited would he become while thus engaged, that he often conceived, he says, that he saw the ecliptic lying like a broad highway across the firmament, and the planets making their way in " paths like the narrow ruts made by cart wheels, sometimes on one side of a plane road, and sometimes on the other, crossing the road at small angles, but never going far from either side of it.
Pagina xxxiii - Cantley, who could very easily have informed me. But happening one day to see a gentleman ride by my father's house (which was close by a public road), I asked him what o'clock it then was : he looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much...
Pagina lii - Dissertation on the phenomena of the harvest moon, with the description of a new orrery, in which there are only four wheels. But having never had a grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press ; and for the same cause, I ought to have the same fears still.
Pagina 316 - ... degree we go north it is evident the pole of the heavens will rise one degree above the horizon ; and when we reach the north pole of the earth, the north pole of the heavens will be on the zenith, or ninety degrees above the horizon. Thus it appears that the latitude of any place is equal to the elevation of the pole above the horizon of...
Pagina 268 - In like manner the rays E which come from the top of the object AB and fall parallel upon the great mirror at F, are thence reflected converging to its focus...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects: In Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling, Volume 1 Volume 1 van Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects: In Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialing. With Notes and an Appendix, Adapted to the Present State of the Arts and Sciences, James Ferguson Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects: In Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling, Robert Patterson |
| Auteurs | James Ferguson, David Brewster |
| Redacteurs | David Brewster, Robert Patterson |
| Editie | 2 |
| Uitgever | published, 1806 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 28 aug 2006 |
| Lengte | 50 pagina's |
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