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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 3) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... spherical triangle. Hence, if a denotes .7854, d = diam. of the globe, and s = sum of the 3 angles of the triangle; then ... That is, putting n = the number of angles, s —- sum of all the angles, d = diam. of the sphere, « = .78539 kc; s — (n — 2) 180 — = ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - A military dictionary, or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed and published by William Duane, no. 98, Market Street, 1810
    ... exigence and public dis- tress, and invested with absolute au- thority. DIFFERENCE. The sum paid by in officer in the British service, ... the angle con- tained between the object and nadir ; this half is equal to half the sum of the two angles of elevation sought. Then ...
  3. ... the irritant be not sufficiently intense to cause absolute destruction of tissue. Such changes will involve more or less all the tissue- ... the four divisions of the year,—namely, Spring, Sum- 639 SEBACEOUS SECRETION mer, Autumn, and Winter. The change of the seasons is caused by the obliquity ...
  4. ... value of certain parameters would lead only to changes in the absolute visibility of both systems, without radically affecting the ... threshold to a background level 10, 000 times absolute threshold. This ... neurological changes, not by changes of visual purple concentration, and ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - An account of the progress in astronomy in the year 1886 
    Publication: Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1889
    ... but in the main failed to detect the changes suspected. (See Astron. Nadir., 2750-2752.) It is probable that the object ... in some cases very durable, and constantly undergoing changes of aspect and ... are absolute surface markings displaying none of the variations which ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... change of posi- tion. The necessity of this change to the purposes of the lock, and the absolute impossibility of effecting it other- wise than with ... continues the.same, ii is evident that the absolute weight must be increased ... the quantity of change was always proportional to the quantity ofthe oil ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... square of x added to 12 times x. Absolute equation, in astronomy, is the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. The apparent ... all these together, the whole num- ber of changes or combinations in to ... fours, Sec. to tos, will be the sum ofthe geometrical series n-f-n2 -f n3+ ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The principles of psychology 
    Publication: New York : G.P. Putnam and Son, 1869
    ... we know, and can know, of no organic changes. Its own acts, states, constitute the sum of our knowledge concerning it. Nor are we ... maximum and minimum of time, and proceeds, “The sum therefore of what I have ... poles are the absolute and the infinite; the term absolute expressing that ...
  9. ... under sev- eral different views. With regard to change of position, by which it is ascer- tained, it is either absolute or relative. If a body passes from one ...
  10. ... dis- simulation. A natural restlessness led her to change, to neAv fashions, to a con- tinual varying of her diversions. Great sums of money were, by this means, taken from ...
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