Conic Sections Arithmetic Of
Arithmetic Of Sines, Conic Sections, Curves, Dial Ling, Epicycloid, And Other Branches Of Mathematics That Are To Follow The Present Article ; Also The Biographical Ac Counts Of Mathematicians Contained In Our Work. We Shall Now Give A Select Catalogue Of The Principal Works Which Have Been Written On Geometry, ...
Conic Sections If
Conic Sections If A Cone Indefinitely Extended Be Cut By A Plane In Any Manner, The Common Section Of Its Surface And The Plane Will Be A Geometrical Line, Which Will Be A Curve In Every Case In Which The Plane Does Not Pass Through The Ver Tex. The Curves ...
Construction Of Fortified Places
Construction Of Fortified Places. Fortified Place Is In The Form Of A Polygon, More Or Less Regular According To Circumstances. The Sides Of This Polygon May Be Considered As Chords Of The Arches Of A Cir Cle Described About The Place, And On The Relative Length Of These Chords The ...
Constructive Ca Rpentry
Constructive Ca Rpentry. We Enter Upon The Consideration Of This Impor Tant Subject, We Must Lirst Lay Before Our Readers A Few Preliminary Problems Of A Geometrical Nature, Relating To Angles, Tangents, Arcs Of Circles, Elliptic, Parabolic, And Hyperbolic Curves, Circular And Elliptic Polygons, Concentric Ellipses, And Other Subjects Which ...
Contagious Fever
Contagious Fever. This Is Still More Certainly A Produce Of Animals In A State Of Disease, And, Properly, Of Mall Alone, Whatever Analogies To It The Epidemics Of Some Animals May Have. But It Appears Also To Be Generated, Without Previous Fever, Merely By The Close Confinement Of Many Healthy ...
Contracted Feet
Contracted Feet. Were It Not For Fear Of Being Accused Of A Very Serious Omission, We Do Not Think We Should Give Place, Among The Diseases, To The Subject Of The Present Paragraph; It Is Certainly Not Of Itself A Disease, Unless We Can Consider A Tight (human) Shoe As ...
Conyers Middleion
Middle'i'on, Conyers, An Eminent English Di Vine, Was Born At York, In The Year 1683. Iris Lather, The Rev. William Middleton, Rector Of Ilinderwell, Near Whitby, Gave Him A Liberal Education, And At The Age Of Seventeen, He Was Admitted A Pensioner Of Trinity College, Cambridge, And Two Years After ...
Copper
Copper. All The Preparations Of Copper Are Poisonous. The Most Common Are The Acetate, The Sulphate, The Ni Trate, The Muriate, The Ammoniuret, As Chemical Poisons. In Domestic Use, Those Of Ordinary Occurrence Are Solu Tions Of The Metal In Wine Or Vinegar, And Its Combinations With Oily Matters. In ...
Copperplate Printing Press
Printing Press, Copperplate. The Invention Of The Copperplate Printing Press Seems To Have Been Made About The Same Period As The Type Printing Press. In The Bsence Of Authentic Record, Tradition Has Ascribed The Discovery To A Silver-smith, Who, In Order To Save Labour, And Ensure The Accurate And Rapid ...
Corn
Corn. The Seat Of This Disease Is One Of The Heels Of The Sole Of The Foot, Most Commonly The Inner Heel; Because, That Being The One Which Moves The Most In Action, Is More Likely To Strike Against The Heel Of The Shoe, And Be Bruised, Than The Outer ...
Corpus
Corpus, Is A Writ In The English Law, Of Which There Are Various Kinds, For Removing Prison Ers From One Court Into Another, For The More Easy Admi Nistration Of Justice. Such Are The Habeas Corpus Ad Re Spondendont, Sat Isfaciendoin, Prosequendoin, Testificandoni, Deliberanduin, Ec. When A Prisoner Is Removed ...
Corrientes
Corrientes Lies Above Entre Rios, And Remarkable As Is The River Perimiter Of The Latter, That Of The Former Is Not Less So ; Having The Parana On The North And West, And The Uruguay East. At The North-east Angle Of The Province The Two Rivers Approach To Within Thirty ...
Corrosive
Corrosive Sunumate. This Substance, Given In A Dose Of The Eighth Part Of A Grain, Acts As A General Stimulus On The Alimentary Canal And The Secretions. Sometimes There Is A Sense Of Heat And Pain In The Stomach. If The Dose Is Larger, Or Long Continued, It Produces Colics ...
Cos Cos071
Cos. + Cos. 0 71 — .cos N = 2 7t1 2 — 1 . 771 + I I. 2 771 22'. Where Nz Must Be Less Than 71 ; If We Apply These Conside Rations To The Several Series In The Above Sum, Which Re Spectively Multiply 2 -0 ...
Country Of Babylon
Babylon, Country Of, Is Generally Called Babylonia, From The Name Of Its First City Babel ; Or Chaldea, From The Name Of Its Inhabitants, The Chal. Deans Or Chasdim. When Babylon, Instead Of Ni Neveh, Was The Seat Of The Supreme Power, The Words Babylonia And Chaldca Were Equivalent With ...
Crax
Crax, Lin. Fnc. Alector, Cuv. Hocco. Bill Long, Thick, Compressed At The Sides, The Ridge Carinated, Incurved Towards The Tip, The Base Covered With A Simple Cere, Or Gibbous ; Nostrils Lateral, Placed In The Cere, Half Covered, But Open In Front ; Top Of The Head Ornamented With Revoluted ...
Crometer
Crometer. Let Us Now Suppose That The Temperature Of The Two Cast Iron Prismatic Bars Is Kept Unaltered, Which Can Be Tasily Ascertained By Keeping A Thermometer In The Water Of The Troughs In Which Each Is Placed. Let The First Mi Croscope With A Joint In Its Field Be ...
Crotophaga
Crotophaga, Lin. &c. Keel-bill, Or .axr. Bill Smooth Or Furrowed, Curved, Entire, Laterally Com Pressed, Angular On The Margins, Keeled At The Top ; Nos Trils Basal, Lateral, Pervious, And Oval; Tongue Compressed, Pointed At The Tip; Wings Short ; Tail Composed Of Eight Feathers. The Birds Of This Family ...
Crustacea
Crustacea And Insects Have Properly No Brain, But Only A Nervous Cord Full Of Knots Or Ganglia, Called The Spinal Marrow, Though Improperly, As These Ani Mals Have No Spine, And Their Knotty Cord Neither Re Sembles The Spinal Marrow Of Other Animals, Nor Is It Al Ways Situated Along ...
Cryptura
Cryptura, Vicill. Bill Slender, Straight, Depressed, Broader Than Deep, Tip Rounded, Ridge Distinct, Forming A Large Nasal Foss; Nostrils Lateral, Pierced In The Nasal Foss, Near The Middle Of The Bill, Ovate, Expanded, And Open ; Tarsus Long, Frequently With Asperities Behind ; Four Short Toes, The Hinder One Par ...
Cundinama Rca
Cundinama Rca, East From Cauca, And Stretching In A Direction Of Nearly North And South Between 8° 35' N. And 0° 40' S. Comprises The Four Provinces Of Antioquia, Mariquita, Bogota, And Neiva, Or Neyva. With A Su Perficial Extent Of 76,600 Square Miles, And Length Of 650, The Mean ...
Cura
Cura C0a, Buenaire, And Oruba, Are Three Islands Lying Off The Province Of Coro In Colombia, But Belong To The Kingdom Of The Netherlands. Curacoa, The Principal Island, Is Situated At From N. Lat. 12°, To 12° 18', Long. 8° E. From Washington City. Buenaire Lies 60 Miles Easterly, And ...
Currency And Banks
Currency And Banks. The Currency Of The United States Consists Of Gold And Silver Coin, Either Stamped At The Mint Of The United States Or Made A Legal Tender By Act Of Congress; And Bank-notes Convertible On Demand Into Coin. The Amount Of Coin Stamped At The Mint Within The ...
Cuv Carouge Xanthornus
Xanthornus, Cuv. Carouge. Differs From The Preceding Genus Only In The Circum Stance Of The Bill Being Quite Straight. X. Icterus, Cuv. Oriolus Icterus, Lin. &c. Pendu Longirostris, Vicil. Icteric Carouge, Icteric Oriole, Or Large Banana Bird. Fulvous, With Black Head, Throat, Wings, And Tail ; The Wings Marked By ...
Cyprinus
Cyprinus Sciamosseus. So Supposed From The Exami Nation Of The Last Nine Vertebra Only. The Country Of Oeningen Is Another Repository Of Fishes, Supposed To Belong To Fresh Water. They Ore Found At The Issue Of The Rhine From The Lake Of Constance, Near The Village Of Stein, At About ...
Daniel Bernoulli
Bernoulli, Daniel, A Celebrated Mathema Tician And Natural Philosopher, Was The Son Of John Bernoulli, And Was Born At Groningen On The 9th Of February 1700. The Attention Of Young Bernoulli Was Early Directed By His Father To The Study Of Ma Thematics ; But His First Attempts, Though Promising ...
Darby
Darby. Sirene.—the Sirene, An Instrument For Measur Ing The Number Of Vibrations Of The Air, Which Are Re Quired To Produce A Sound, Was Invented By Baron Cagniard De In Tour. It Was Made On The Principle That If, As Is The General Opinion, The Sound Of Instru Ments Is ...
Dargenson
D'argenson." La Sievr Prince De Monaco. When Tyranny Was• At Its Height, The Lettres De Cachet Were Subscribed By The King And Given To The Minister, With Spaces Left For The Names Of Those Who Were So Unhappy As To Incur The Displeasure Of Either : And The Minister, Thus ...