Cavan
Cavan, Comae, Is Situated Midway Between The Irish Sea And The Atlantic Ocean, From The Shores Of Which Its Eastern And Western Extremities Are Each Distant About 14 Mites. Its Boundaries Towards The North Are The Mountains Of Bullynageerah And Shen Russel, And The Waters Of Lough Erne ; The ...
Cavanilles
Cavanilles (levoete Joan), A So. Web Ecclesiastic, Who Devoted Himself With Great Assiduity To The Study Of Botany, And Has Publish Ed Several Important Works, Was Born In 1746 Ebb Valencia. He Received His Best Education Jesuits In That 'university, And He Ever The Urbanity Of Character And Manners Characteristic ...
Cavendish
Cavendish (hmenx) A Great And Justly Ce Lebrated Chemist, Natural And Astro Nomer ; Son Of Lord Charles Cavendish, And Grand Son Of William, Second Duke Of Devonshire; Born The Loth Of October 178i, At Nice, Where His Mother, Lady Anne Grey, Daughter Of Henry, Duke Of Kent, Had Gone, ...
Cesarotti
Cesarotti (melchloa), An Italian Poet, Was Born At Padua, In The Year 1730, Of A Family Of Con Siderable Rank But Small Fortune. He Was Educated At The Academy Of Padua, Where He Early Showed A Strong Inclination For Literary Pursuits, And Made Such Progress In Study, That He Was ...
Ceylon
Ceylon. In The Encyclopedia The Reader Will Find A Description Of This Island And Its More Re Markable Productions; With A Short Summary Of Its History, Down To The Year 1796, When The Narking 'provinces Then In Possession Of The • Dutch, Were Conquered By The Arms Of Britain. We ...
Class 11
Class 11. Distinguished From The Last Class, Only By Baying Separate Anthers. 56. Dipsacea Consist Of Some Of The Lineman Ag. Make, Urn. 48. See Our Remark Under Jussieu's 26th Order. There Is Ample Room For Speculation On The Affinities And Distinctions Between These Dipsacea, The Protege, Ord. 26th, And ...
Class 14 83
Class 14. 83. Sesnperviva Are The Second Section Of Linniens's Arreirleetre, Ord. 13. 84. Sanfraga Are Chiefly The Fourth Section Of The Same. 85. Cacti Consist Merely Of Ribet And Cactus, As Artificial A Combination As Most In The Sexual System Itself. The Former Linnicus Ranks With His Panacea; Ord. ...
Class 6 24
Class 6. 24. Eleeagni Consist Of Unman Calymjgore; Ord. 16, With Various Genera Besides, Referred To Almost As Many Different Orders By Linnteus, So That Here The Two Sys Tems Exhibit But Little Analogy, Nor Is This Oneof Jus Sieu's Best Orders. ...
Class Is 96
Class Is. Sieu, Having Invented A Key, Or A Set Of Distinctive Characters, To His Orders, Has Removed This Objection, We Would Ask, What Becomes Of His Doubtful Genera, Ea Numerous As Those Of Linnaeus ? Or Moreover, How Is Any Student, Using , His System Analytically, To Make Out ...
Copernicus And Tycho
Copernicus And Tycho. On The Revival Of Learning In Europe, Astronomy Was The First Of The Sciences Which Was Regenerated. Such, Indeed, Is The Beauty And Usefulness Of This Branch Of Knowledge, That, In The Thickest •darkness Of The Middle Ages, The Study Of It Was Never Entirely Aban Doned. ...
Ee P 635
Ee. P. 635. A Similar Remark Of The Author Has Al Ready Been Noticed In The Article Bridge, At The End Of The Fifth Section. In The Form In Which It Is Here Ex Pressed, It Becomes Still More Objectionable : For With Whatever Part Of A Circular Abutment A ...
Elements Or Carpentry
Elements Or Carpentry. " Carpentry Is The Art Of Framing Timber For The Purposes Of Architecture, Machinery, And, In Gene Ral, For All Considerable Structures. It Is Not Intended In This Article To Give A Fa Account Of Carpentry As A Mechanical Art, Or To De' Scribe The Various Ways ...
Enumerations
Enumerations. The Number Of The People In The Several Intervals Of Age, Which We Have Stated Above To Be Of So Much Importance, May Be Disposed In Tables Exactly Simi Lar To B Or B, Recommended For The Deaths ; But It Is Not Necessary That The Duration Of Life ...
Explanation
Explanation Or The Plates. Figs. 1. And 2., Plate Xl., Explain The Arrange Ment Of The Utensils And Machinery In A Porter Brewery On The Largest Scale; In Which, However, It Must Be Observed, That The Elevation Fig. 1. Is, In A Feat Degree, Imaginary, As To The Plane Upon ...
Figure And Magnitude Of
Figure And Magnitude Of Tee Eartit. The Progress Made During The Seventeenth Century, In Ascertaining The Magnitude And Figure Of The Earth, Is Particularly Connected With The Establishments Which Ive Have Just Been Considering. Concerning The Figure Of The Earth, No Accurate Information Was Lived From Antiquity, If We Except ...
For Bills Of Mortality
For Bills Of Mortality And Fecundity. It Is Desirable That A Bill Should Be Published For Each Year Separately, To Show How The Rates, Both Of Mortality And Fecundity, Vary With The Circumstances Of The People In Different Years ; And, From These Yearly Bills, Nothing Is More Easy Than ...
From Alhazen To Keplbr
From Alhazen To Ke.plbr. An Interval Of Nearly A Thousand Years Divided Ptolemy From Alhazen, Who, • In The History Of Optical Discovery, Appears As His Immediate Successor. This Ingenious Ara Bian Lived In The Eleventh Century, And His Merit Can Be More Fairly, And Will Be More Highly Appreciated, ...
From Kepler To The
From Kepler To The Commencement Of Newton's Optical Discoveries. The Rainbow Had, From The Earliest Times, Been An Object Of Interest With Those Who Bestow Ed Attention On Optical Appearances, But It Is Much Too Complicated A Phenomenon To Be Easily Explained. In General, However, It Was Understood To Arise ...
Having
Having Considered At Sufficient Length The Strains Of Different Kinds Which Arise From The Form Of The Parts Of A Frame Of Carpentry, And The Direction Of The External Forces Which Act On It, Whether Considered As Impelling Or As Supporting Its Different , We Must Now Proceed To Consider ...
History Op Brewing
History Op Brewing. Nu Notice Is Taken Of Beer Or Ale In The Books Of Moses, From Which It Is Probable That They Were Unknown Till After The Death Of This Legislator. All The Ancient Greek Writers Agree In Assigning The Honour Of The Discovery Of Beer To The Egyptians, ...
Huygens Descartes
Descartes, Huygens, &c. Descartes Flourished About This Period, And Has The Merit Of Being The First Who Under Took To Give An Explanation Of The Celestial Motions, Or Who Formed The Great And Philo Sophic Conception Of Reducing All The Phenomena Of The Universe To The Same Law. The Time ...
Hydrostatics
Hydrostatics. While The Theory Of Motion, As Applied To Solids, Was Thus Extended, In What Related To Fluids, It Was Making Equal Progress. The Laws Which Determine The Weight Of Bodies Im Mersed In Fluids, And Also The Position Of Bodies Floating On Them, Had Been Discovered By Archimedes, And ...
Kepler And Galileo
Kepler And Galileo. Kepler Followed Tycho, And In His Hands Astronomy Underwent A Change Only Second To That 'which It Had Undergone In The Hands Of Copernicus. He Was Born In• 1571. He Early Applied Himself To Study And Observe The Heavens, And Was Soon Distinguished As An Inventor. He ...
Ma Cannon
Cannon, Ma .sax Or Casting. Formerly The Mould For -ousting Eaunoa Was Of Loam, And Uaus$y Leads Of Dry Sand. Loam For Mei* Moulds, Os As Earth Consisting Principally Of Clay. It Is Passed Through Sieves And Then Mixed, Whilst Wet, With Horse Dung, Cow's Hair, Chopped Straw, Sr Tea ...
Marquis Or Beccaria Cesar
Beccaria (cesar Bonesana, Marquis Or), Author Of The Well Known Treatise On Crimes And Pu Nishments, Was Born At Milan In The Year 1735. His Early Studies Were Carried On In The College Of The Jesuits At Parma. He Possessed A Quick Apprehen Sion ; But, Being Naturally Taciturn, And ...
Mathematics 1 Geometry
Mathematics. 1. Geometry. Great Inheritance Of Mathematical Knowledge Which The Ancients Bequeathed To Po Sterity Could Not, On The Revival Of Learning, Be Immediately Taken Possession Of, Nor Could Even Its Existence Be Discovered, But By Degrees. Though The Study Of The Mathematics Had Never Been Entirely Abandoned, It Had ...
Mimi
Mimi That Were Published Tunong The Notes Poem Des Moil, Met With General Approbation. He Received The Approbation Of Those Entice Who Were The Dispensers Of Literary Famb In Paris, And Was In. Troduced At Once Into A Large Circle Of Acquaintance, Where He Was Everywhere Greeted With Acclamation. He ...
N Australasia
Australasia, 'n Modern Geography, The Great Division Of The Earth's Surface. A Systematic Classification In Geography Is As Necessary To Enable Us To Form Dear And Comprehensive Views Of Its Objects, As It Is In Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Or Any Other Depart Ment Of Physical Science, Though Incapable Of I= ...
Natural Classification
Natural Classification Or Plants. Posed According To Their Technical Characters. Motu 'ray, In Compiling The Fourteenth Edition Of That Work, Has Been Inadvertent, Respecting This Essential Part Of Its Plan. Indeed It Is Probable That He Was Not Competent To Judge Of The Affinities Of The New Genera, Introduced From ...