Richard Edgeworth - Practical Education, Volume II

Darwin. V. Botanic Garden.

V. Gray's Memoria Technica, and the Critic.

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And so on from Gray's Memoria Technica to the end of the chapter.

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V. A strange instance quoted by Mr. Stewart, "On the Human Mind," page 152.

NOTE.

The word calculate is derived from the Latin calculus, a pebble.

This method is recommended in the Cours de Math, par Camus, p. 38.

Plutarch. – Life of Dion.

V. Rivuletta, a little story written entirely by her in 1786.

When this question was sometime afterwards repeated to S – , he observed, that the feather would throw down the castle, if its swiftness were so great as to make up for its want of weight.

Were it thought necessary to make these experiments perfectly accurate, a segment of a pulley, the radius of which is half the length of the scale-beam, should be attached to the end of the beam; upon which the cord may apply itself, and the pulley (P 3) should be raised or lowered, to bring the rope horizontally from the man's shoulder when in the attitude of drawing.

The word power is here used in a popular sense, to denote the strength or efficacy that is employed to produce an effect by means of any engine.

In all these experiments with the skeleton-pulley, somebody must keep it in its proper direction; as from its structure, which is contrived for illustration, not for practical use, it cannot retain its proper situation without assistance.

In a loom this secondary lever is called a lamb , by mistake, for lam ; from lamina , a slip of wood.