Mathematicall Recreations: Or, A Collection of Many Problemes, Extracted Out of the Ancient and Modern Philisophers, as Secrets and Experiments in Arithmetick, Geometry, Cosmographie, Horologiographie, Astronomie, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Statick, Mechanicks, Chemistry, Water-works, Fire-works, &c. ...

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William Leake, 1653 - 285 pagine
 

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Pagina 59 - ... of the light are not reflected to the eye, as they would be if there were a liquid substance in the glasse, hence they have an assured proofe to conclude that the hollow of the glasse is totally empty.
Pagina 167 - ... at the end of the Ring-finger it is 8 in the morning , or 4 in the evening , at the end of the little finger or firft...
Pagina 266 - Stick, and then tying one end of it, and filling it with the mixt compofitioh •' fomewhat clofe, and then tying the other end. * The Reports are made in their Paper-Cafes,asthc Serpents, but the Paper fomewhat thicker to give the greater report.
Pagina 229 - Combes fa much is the diftance between the two places;; If the diftance of two places be required in a particular Map then with the...
Pagina 110 - Heat the ^Eolipiles being empty, and the aire which is within it will become extreamely rarefied ; then being thus hot throw it into water, and the...
Pagina 146 - Glafle, and ic will caufe admiration to thofe which arc below that know not the caufirjThe fame may be done by placing the Image in a Chamber adjoyning , and fo make it to be feen upon the fide of the Wall.
Pagina 267 - Artificial tity of Towe-, and then tying it up in the form of a Ball as great as an Hafcf-Nut or a little WaiNut, through which there muft be drawn a little Primer to make it take rire.
Pagina 173 - Vritlxiut pmfder? is may be done with aire and Water, only having thrown cold water into the...
Pagina 20 - ... other counters upon the table, retire into another room, and bid him who has the ring take as many counters from the table as you gave him ; he that has the guinea, twice as many, and he that has the shilling, twice as many.

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