 | Benjamin Robins - 1761 - 396 páginas
...written before M. Huygens's Horologium Ofcillatorium was pub* See his elogium by M. de Fontenelle, in the Hiftory of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris for the year 1727. t 10 Dec. 1672. J 24 Oaob. 1676. || View of Si» Ifnac Newton's Philofophy, in the preface.... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1806 - 590 páginas
...fcrews, with levers to raife or let down the bulb ; above which thefe levers were placed. M. CafTmi too, in the Hiftory of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, for 1741, defcribes two forts of pendulums for clocks, compounded of bars of brafs and fteel ; and in which... | |
 | 1812 - 680 páginas
...had paid much attention to Euclid's Elements. An observation cf a similar kind, and about the same time, was made by Mr. Le Sage which is recorded in the History of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris for 1756; and another important correction has been... | |
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... solid figures, in the note on Def. 10. xi. Elem. is curious, from remarking an error, which is so obvious when pointed out, but which had escaped the notice of the many learned and acute geometers, who had paid much attention to Euclid's Elements.... 