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... diameter . Beyond this the eye cannot take in the forms of the whirling columns ; these receive another name , but in all essential points they remain the same . When the dimensions are still greater , the diameters measuring 300 miles ...
... diameter . Beyond this the eye cannot take in the forms of the whirling columns ; these receive another name , but in all essential points they remain the same . When the dimensions are still greater , the diameters measuring 300 miles ...
Side 13
... diameter . Piddington was therefore right in comparing cyclones to mere whirling discs . It would however be more correct to regard them as waterspouts reduced to their upper funnel - shaped portion , or deprived of their slightly ...
... diameter . Piddington was therefore right in comparing cyclones to mere whirling discs . It would however be more correct to regard them as waterspouts reduced to their upper funnel - shaped portion , or deprived of their slightly ...
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... diameter , and five metres focal distance , at a cost of 1,2001 . M. Tisserand is head of the Toulouse Observatory . PETERMANN'S Mittheilungen for November contains the fol- lowing papers : -On Soleillet's and Largeau's travels in the ...
... diameter , and five metres focal distance , at a cost of 1,2001 . M. Tisserand is head of the Toulouse Observatory . PETERMANN'S Mittheilungen for November contains the fol- lowing papers : -On Soleillet's and Largeau's travels in the ...
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... diameter , Mr. Benson's has shrunk to only 3 times ! Where all this will end if the malady increases it is hard to say ; perhaps the unfortunate circle will shrink up into its own centre ! Opponents had pointed out " that when the areas ...
... diameter , Mr. Benson's has shrunk to only 3 times ! Where all this will end if the malady increases it is hard to say ; perhaps the unfortunate circle will shrink up into its own centre ! Opponents had pointed out " that when the areas ...
Side 30
... diameters is " mathematically incontestable . " He then goes into an examination of Prop . XIII . , Book V. , of Brewster's Legendre : " The surface of a regular in- scribed polygon and that of a similar polygon circum- scribed , being ...
... diameters is " mathematically incontestable . " He then goes into an examination of Prop . XIII . , Book V. , of Brewster's Legendre : " The surface of a regular in- scribed polygon and that of a similar polygon circum- scribed , being ...
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Side 200 - MORELL, JR— Euclid Simplified in Method and Language. Being a Manual of Geometry. Compiled from the most important French Works, approved by the University of Paris and the Minister of Public Instruction.
Side 211 - Hence the rule has been derived, that the number of beats per second is equal to the difference of the number of vibrations per second of the two sounds.