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... axis in a lunar month , and has the same side always opposed to the earth . They have also noticed the difference of her apparent magnitude on the horizon and on the meridian . ancient treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra , ' written in 11.
... axis in a lunar month , and has the same side always opposed to the earth . They have also noticed the difference of her apparent magnitude on the horizon and on the meridian . ancient treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra , ' written in 11.
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... side was wanting , to write the literal character with zero for its coefficient . The following is an example of a simple equation : - One person has 300 of known species and six horses . like price ; but he owes a debt of 100 of known ...
... side was wanting , to write the literal character with zero for its coefficient . The following is an example of a simple equation : - One person has 300 of known species and six horses . like price ; but he owes a debt of 100 of known ...
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... side a number equal to the original coefficient of the first power of the unknown quantity . " He also gives an example in which fractions are avoided by the appli- cation of the rule.2 Brahmegupta has given this rule , and another ...
... side a number equal to the original coefficient of the first power of the unknown quantity . " He also gives an example in which fractions are avoided by the appli- cation of the rule.2 Brahmegupta has given this rule , and another ...
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... side is counterpoised by a corresponding change in the other . " : - The author's preface to his work contains the following passage : - " The learned , in times which have passed away , and among nations which have ceased to exist ...
... side is counterpoised by a corresponding change in the other . " : - The author's preface to his work contains the following passage : - " The learned , in times which have passed away , and among nations which have ceased to exist ...
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... side ; so that one side is made complete ( or wholly positive ) by the removal of one thing ; and the equality is restored by adding one thing to the four things on the other side . The word Mokabalah is a noun of action , from a verb ...
... side ; so that one side is made complete ( or wholly positive ) by the removal of one thing ; and the equality is restored by adding one thing to the four things on the other side . The word Mokabalah is a noun of action , from a verb ...
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Page 29 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page iv - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 30 - We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.
Page 32 - Théorie des fonctions analytiques, contenant les principes du calcul différentiel, dégagés de toute considération d'infiniment petits ou d'évanouissans, de limites ou de fluxions, et réduits à l'analyse algébrique des quantités finies; par JL Lagnuige.
Page 32 - Les plus grandes âmes sont capables des plus grands vices aussi bien que des plus grandes vertus ; et ceux qui ne marchent que fort lentement peuvent avancer beaucoup davantage , s'ils suivent toujours le droit chemin, que ne font ceux qui courent et qui s'en éloignent.
Page 6 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 5 - To make an estimate, what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power. And by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances from the sun, he found, that if any power like gravity held them in their courses, its strength must decrease in the duplicate proportion of the increase of distance.
Page 59 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.