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 9Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... perpendicular , and is used for a line or plane that intersects another perpendicularly . NORROY , that is North Roy , Northern King , in heraldry , the title of the third of the three kings arms , or provincial heralds . His ...
... perpendicular , and is used for a line or plane that intersects another perpendicularly . NORROY , that is North Roy , Northern King , in heraldry , the title of the third of the three kings arms , or provincial heralds . His ...
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... perpendicular well or pit , used formerly for experiments on the fall of bodies ; being also a kind of long telescopical tube , through which the stars are seen at mid - day . Tycho Brahe's Observatory was in the little island Ween , or ...
... perpendicular well or pit , used formerly for experiments on the fall of bodies ; being also a kind of long telescopical tube , through which the stars are seen at mid - day . Tycho Brahe's Observatory was in the little island Ween , or ...
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... perpendicular , or nearly perpendicular , to the horizon ; then adjust the level by the pinion of the declination semicircle ; re- verse the level , and if it be wrong , cor- rect half the error by a small steel screw that lies under ...
... perpendicular , or nearly perpendicular , to the horizon ; then adjust the level by the pinion of the declination semicircle ; re- verse the level , and if it be wrong , cor- rect half the error by a small steel screw that lies under ...
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... perpendicular height of one of them , and then doubling the pro- duct . OCTANDRIA in botany , the eighth class in Linnæus's system , consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers , which are furnished with eight stamina or male organs ...
... perpendicular height of one of them , and then doubling the pro- duct . OCTANDRIA in botany , the eighth class in Linnæus's system , consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers , which are furnished with eight stamina or male organs ...
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... be- tween the incident ray A C and a perpen- dicular to the reflecting surface in the point of reflection , as the angle AC D. The angle of reflection , is that contained between the said perpendicular DC , and the reflected ray OPTICS .
... be- tween the incident ray A C and a perpen- dicular to the reflecting surface in the point of reflection , as the angle AC D. The angle of reflection , is that contained between the said perpendicular DC , and the reflected ray OPTICS .
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