Miscellanea Curi
Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
作者：Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 [Editor]; Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757 [Contributor]; Garden, George, 1649-1733 [Contributor]; Havers, Clopton, -1702 [Contributor]; Mead, Richard, 1673-1754 [Contributor]; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 [Contributor]; Royal Society (Great Britain) [Contributor]; Wallis, John, 1616-1703 [Contributor]
体例：题 章数：38
字数：500,515 来源：Project Gutenberg
章节目录
共 38 题- CONTAINING A COLLECTION
- Of some of the Principal
- IN NATURE,
- BEING THE
- VOL. I.
- LONDON:
- TO THE READER.
- A TABLE OF THE
- APPENDIX.
- MISCELLANEA CURIOSA.
- A TABLE OF VARIATIONS.
- And _Claudian lib 2. De Raptu Proserpinæ._
- 2. That in serene good settled Weather, the _Mercury_ is generally high.
- 5. That in calm frosty Weather the _Mercury_ generally stands high.
- 2. And that Heterogeneal, whose Rays are unequally refrangible.
- 3. _Sonum transire ab extremo ad extremum_ & _non per Medium_.
- FIG. V. TAB. III.
- But after all, even the _clearest Water_
- In order to whose Determination, let the
- That is (in our present Case)
- And so the Aggregate will be
- 45. In an Horizontal or Oblique Projection, having taken
- And in the room of δ substituting
- If of _Water_, whose Refraction is as 4 to 3, the Theorem will stand thus
- For ρ the Rule is
- But for _p_ will be
- APPENDIX.
- For Example, Let the Root of this Equation of the Fifth Power be required
- 5_y_ + 20_y_³ + 16_y_⁵ = 4
- The Root of it will be equal to
- Let an Equation be propos'd
- PART I.
- L. G :: 1. _s_. Hence, L = G/_s_.
- C. G :: 1. C. Then C = G/_e_. Hence,
- PART II.
- And after him _Manilius_[42]
- A COROLLARY.
- End of Project Gutenberg's Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1, by Edmond Halley