History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... cycloid , in consequence of their importance , and the great celebrity which they acquired . The cycloid is a curve formed by a circle rolling upon a straight line , situated The cycloid . in a plane , while a point in the circumference ...
... cycloid , in consequence of their importance , and the great celebrity which they acquired . The cycloid is a curve formed by a circle rolling upon a straight line , situated The cycloid . in a plane , while a point in the circumference ...
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... cycloid ; but he was at that time unequal to the task . He therefore made no very strenuous efforts to resolve it , but set himself to study the ancients , especially Archimedes ; and , after an interval of six years , the problem being ...
... cycloid ; but he was at that time unequal to the task . He therefore made no very strenuous efforts to resolve it , but set himself to study the ancients , especially Archimedes ; and , after an interval of six years , the problem being ...
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... cycloid , sent the solution to Mersenne , and , at the same time , challenged Ro- berval and Fermat , with whom he was at that time at variance , to resolve the problem . Pierre de Fermat , Counsellor in the Parliament of Toulouse , was ...
... cycloid , sent the solution to Mersenne , and , at the same time , challenged Ro- berval and Fermat , with whom he was at that time at variance , to resolve the problem . Pierre de Fermat , Counsellor in the Parliament of Toulouse , was ...
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... cycloid , about its base , and about its axis , and found that the first was to the cylinder of the same base and height , as 5 to 8 ; and the second , nearly as 11 to 17 . Mersenne having mentioned these particulars to Torricelli , he ...
... cycloid , about its base , and about its axis , and found that the first was to the cylinder of the same base and height , as 5 to 8 ; and the second , nearly as 11 to 17 . Mersenne having mentioned these particulars to Torricelli , he ...
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... cycloid . Slusius , for example , Ricci , Huygens , and Sir Christopher Wren ; the last of whom gave the method of rectifying the cycloidal arch . Commissioners being ap- pointed to examine the two papers sent to M. de Carcavi , that of ...
... cycloid . Slusius , for example , Ricci , Huygens , and Sir Christopher Wren ; the last of whom gave the method of rectifying the cycloidal arch . Commissioners being ap- pointed to examine the two papers sent to M. de Carcavi , that of ...
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