The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A million of facts [The book of facts, by Samuel L. Knapp, William C. Redfield, and othersC.C. Childs, 1850 |
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... fall towards the earth . The standard of weights is the cubick inch of distilled water , weigh- ing 252.458 troy grains ; the troy pound 5760 grains , or 22.8157 inc . The same standard of 7000 troy grains makes the pound avoirdupois ...
... fall towards the earth . The standard of weights is the cubick inch of distilled water , weigh- ing 252.458 troy grains ; the troy pound 5760 grains , or 22.8157 inc . The same standard of 7000 troy grains makes the pound avoirdupois ...
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... fall of a body , the revolutions of the moon round the earth , or the earth round the sun . The tropical year is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 51.6 seconds ; but the sidereal year , or return to the same star is 365 days 6 h . 9 m . 11 ...
... fall of a body , the revolutions of the moon round the earth , or the earth round the sun . The tropical year is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 51.6 seconds ; but the sidereal year , or return to the same star is 365 days 6 h . 9 m . 11 ...
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... fall back 24,890 miles , or in space 50.3 " , with refer- ence to the stars . Every other body like the earth turns once on its axis by going round a central body , and this therefore is the sole cause of the equinoxial points . The ...
... fall back 24,890 miles , or in space 50.3 " , with refer- ence to the stars . Every other body like the earth turns once on its axis by going round a central body , and this therefore is the sole cause of the equinoxial points . The ...
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... falls at the equa- tor in a second of time 16.045258 feet ; in the lat . of 45 ° per Sabine 16.08645 ; at London , 51 ... fall of a body in a second is 3.14162 , X half the length of a pendulum which vibrates sec- onds . CHRONOMETERS ...
... falls at the equa- tor in a second of time 16.045258 feet ; in the lat . of 45 ° per Sabine 16.08645 ; at London , 51 ... fall of a body in a second is 3.14162 , X half the length of a pendulum which vibrates sec- onds . CHRONOMETERS ...
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... falls back one in every succeeding year , and two when 366 days , or in leap - year . To find the Golden Number , or year of the Lunar Cycle , add one to the date and divide by 19 , then the quotient is the number of cycles since Christ ...
... falls back one in every succeeding year , and two when 366 days , or in leap - year . To find the Golden Number , or year of the Lunar Cycle , add one to the date and divide by 19 , then the quotient is the number of cycles since Christ ...
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Page 97 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 162 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 257 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 282 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 97 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 30 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 312 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 282 - For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
Page 284 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 154 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.