Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, Viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical : Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits, and to Induce Them to Make Further Scrutiny Into These (and the Like) Sublime Sciences, and to Divert Them from Following Such Vices, to which Youth (in this Age) are So Much Inclin'dRichard Baldwin and John Dunton, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and at the Raven in the Poultrey, 1694 - 408 páginas |
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Página iii
... against a Wall , and ftretch his Fingers abroad , he would shoot through the spaces without touch- ing the Boys Hand , or any Finger of it . And it is reported of Domitian the Emperor , That at two fhoots he fhould fix his Shafts in the ...
... against a Wall , and ftretch his Fingers abroad , he would shoot through the spaces without touch- ing the Boys Hand , or any Finger of it . And it is reported of Domitian the Emperor , That at two fhoots he fhould fix his Shafts in the ...
Página iv
... against the Hetrufcans , the Ro- mans brake it down behind him ; wherewith , in his Armour , he caft himself into the River , and ( notwithstanding a shower of Darts and Arrows were sent after him ) fwam with fafety in- to the City ...
... against the Hetrufcans , the Ro- mans brake it down behind him ; wherewith , in his Armour , he caft himself into the River , and ( notwithstanding a shower of Darts and Arrows were sent after him ) fwam with fafety in- to the City ...
Página vii
... against it an- Swered . 8 The Strongest Arguments ( by way of Objection ) the Maintainers of the Ptolomean Syftem bring against the Copernican Syftem : With the An- fwers the Copernicans give unto them . Of the Eclipses of the Sun and ...
... against it an- Swered . 8 The Strongest Arguments ( by way of Objection ) the Maintainers of the Ptolomean Syftem bring against the Copernican Syftem : With the An- fwers the Copernicans give unto them . Of the Eclipses of the Sun and ...
Página x
... against the Rolls , Mathematical Inftrument maker . Mr. John Thornton , near Goodman's Tard in the Minories ; Hydographer . Mr. Henhaw , near the Hermitage - Bridge in St. Katherines . Numerical RECREATIONS . CHAP . I. Of Digit ...
... against the Rolls , Mathematical Inftrument maker . Mr. John Thornton , near Goodman's Tard in the Minories ; Hydographer . Mr. Henhaw , near the Hermitage - Bridge in St. Katherines . Numerical RECREATIONS . CHAP . I. Of Digit ...
Página 29
... against VI in the Table , is 720 , and fo many Changes may be made up- on Six Bel's ; 5040 upon Seven , & c . II . Of Voices . If it were required to know how many Conforts Ten Voices will make , each man keeping his own Note , but ...
... against VI in the Table , is 720 , and fo many Changes may be made up- on Six Bel's ; 5040 upon Seven , & c . II . Of Voices . If it were required to know how many Conforts Ten Voices will make , each man keeping his own Note , but ...
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Página 24 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 11 - God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 10 - ... since the same weight which in its fall does turn the wheel, is, by the turning of the wheel, carried up again. Or, if the water, falling upon one wheel, would not be forcible enough for this effect, why then there might be two, or three, or more, according as the length and elevation of the instrument will admit ; by which means the weight of it may be so multiplied in the fall that it shall be...
Página 11 - But on the other side, if all the water falling upon one wheel, would be able to turn it round, then half of it would serve with two wheels ; and the rest may be so disposed of in the fall, as to serve unto some other useful delightful ends. When I first thought of this invention, I could...
Página 9 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor. Or, 2.
Página 27 - ... equal to the square root of the numerator divided by the square root of the denominator.
Página 31 - ... so that every day the planet that rules the day comes forth, the rest being hid within the frames, till they come out...
Página 60 - B, from B to C, from C to D, from D to E, and from E to A ; and measure the distances AB, BC, CD, DE, and EA.
Página 11 - H, shall consequently give a circular motion to the whole screw : or if this alone should be too weak for the turning of it, then the same water which falls from the wheel H, being received into the other vessel F, may from thence again descend on the wheel I ; by which means the force of it will be doubled *. And...
Página ii - I'll- give you leave to punish me. Thus as soon may the same meat please all palats, as the same sport suit with all dispositions.