Popular Science Monthly, Volum 68McClure, Phillips and Company, 1906 |
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Side 15
... less than ten miles away as the crow flies , but requires a journey of seventeen miles along a railroad with steep grades and sharp curves . The only white man living on the reservation is the permanent undersecretary for native affairs ...
... less than ten miles away as the crow flies , but requires a journey of seventeen miles along a railroad with steep grades and sharp curves . The only white man living on the reservation is the permanent undersecretary for native affairs ...
Side 22
... less than two right angles , these straight lines , being continually produced , shall at length meet on that side on which are the angles which are less than two right angles . Modern objections to these axioms are to the effect that ...
... less than two right angles , these straight lines , being continually produced , shall at length meet on that side on which are the angles which are less than two right angles . Modern objections to these axioms are to the effect that ...
Side 23
... less evident and less fundamental . natural first attempt was to construct a proof for the axiom so as to give it place as a theorem . Many so - called demonstrations have been offered even up to the present day , but none that have ...
... less evident and less fundamental . natural first attempt was to construct a proof for the axiom so as to give it place as a theorem . Many so - called demonstrations have been offered even up to the present day , but none that have ...
Side 26
... less useful than a simple example . In the academic year 1890-1 Professor C. Segre gave a course of lectures at the University of Turin in which he studied the analytic geometry of n dimensions . A point of n - dimensional space he ...
... less useful than a simple example . In the academic year 1890-1 Professor C. Segre gave a course of lectures at the University of Turin in which he studied the analytic geometry of n dimensions . A point of n - dimensional space he ...
Side 42
... less than one per cent . of the annual gold production , which has increased from $ 1,866,645 in 1895 to $ 9,300,000 in 1904 , and is far from having reached its maximum . Nor does the gold production tell the whole story ; the value of ...
... less than one per cent . of the annual gold production , which has increased from $ 1,866,645 in 1895 to $ 9,300,000 in 1904 , and is far from having reached its maximum . Nor does the gold production tell the whole story ; the value of ...
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Side 418 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Side 302 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Side 373 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves ; And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Side 22 - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Side 478 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Side 40 - A CLEVER man builds a city, A clever woman lays one low; With all her qualifications, that clever woman Is but an ill-omened bird. A woman with a long tongue Is a flight of Steps leading to calamity; For disorder does not come from heaven, But is brought about by women. * Among those who cannot be trained or taught Are women and eunuchs.
Side 22 - Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another.
Side 419 - ... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart: were the entirest strangers: nay. in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their governors had fallen out: and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Side 419 - is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for.
Side 21 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16.