 Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very...  Animal Intelligence - Pagina 171de George John Romanes - 1892 - 520 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 pagini
...determined precifely the angle required ; and he found, by the moft exact menfuration the fubjed could -JI- admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we afk here, who taught the bee the properties of folids, and to refolve problems of maxima... | |
 | James Anderson - 1793 - 390 pagini
...required j and he found by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the v«ry angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we alk here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of maxima... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 pagini
...angle required. Upon the moft exact menfuration which the fubjecT could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. If a honeycomb were a work of human art, every man of common -fen fe would conclude, without... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 734 pagini
...determined precifely the angle required ; and he found, by the moft- exact menfuration the fubject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey- comb do actually meet. Shall we afk here, who taught the bee the properties of folids, and to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pagini
...compose the bottom ought to meet. The late celebrated mathematician, Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculus, determined precisely the angle required ; and he found,...very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of a cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. The same curious fact was ascertained by a German mathematician... | |
 | 1816 - 764 pagini
...angle required. Upon the moft exaft menfuration which the fubjeft could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet. Shall we alk here, Who taught the bees the properties of folids. and tu refolve problems of maxima... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1816 - 128 pagini
...he heard, and more inform'd he grew. mensuration which the subject could admit, he afterwards found, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb actually do meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bees the properties of solids, and to resolve problems... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 pagini
...determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle, in which the three...the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet. Shall we ask here, who taught the bee the properties of solids, and to resolve problems of maxima... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 pagini
...accordingly been resolved by some mathematicians, particularly by the ingenious Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet." It has been therefore demonstrated, (as far as geometry and mathematics can show it,) thut Bees... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pagini
...London. He has determined precisely the angle required, and he found by the most exact mensuration si the subject would admit, that it is the very angle...the bottom of the cell of a honey-comb do actually meet." It has been therefore demonstrated, (as far as geometry and mathematics can show it,) that Bees... | |
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