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The french and Protestant companion, or a journey into Europe, Asia, and Africa; the rarities thereof; The Solution of the most Curious, Delightful, and Hardest Questions, both Temporal and Spiritual, with the Defence of the Protestant Religion, and the Death of Popery: The whole in English and French, Illustrated with several Copper Plates. For the Use of the Young Princesses. By Michael Malard, a French Minister, the Author of the True French Grammar.
Malard, Michel, 1676-Date: [1719]- Books
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A fair and rational vindication of the right of infants to the ordinance of baptism: being the substance of several discourses from Acts ii.39. Containing, I. The Scripture Ground, on which the Right of Infants to Baptism is founded. II. The Evidence by which it is supported. And, III. A Solution of the most material Objections. By David Bostwick, A. M. Late Minister of the Presbyterian Church, in the City of New-York.
Bostwick, David, 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays; viz. I. On the state of population in Manchester, and other adjacent places. II. On the proportional Mortality of the Small Pox and Measles, in the several Periods of Life, and different Seasons of the Year; together with its comparative Fatality to Males and Females. III. On the different Quantities of Rain which fall, at different Heights, over the same Spot of Ground. IV. On the Solution of Stones of the Urinary and of the Gall Bladder, by Water impregnated with Fixed Air. V. On the Nature and Composition of Urinary Calculi. VI. On the Internal Regulation of Hospitals. Vii. On the Influence of Fixed Air on the Colours and Vegetation of Plants. Viii. On the Action of different Manures. IX. On the Properties of different Absorbents. X. Miscellaneous Observations, Cases, and Inquiries. By Thomas Percival, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries in London. To which is added an appendix; containing a letter to the author from Dr. Saunders, on the Solution of Human Calculi; with other Papers.
Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Ions in solution / by R.W. Gurney.
Gurney, Ronald W. (Ronald Wilfrid)Date: 1936- Books
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A mathematical miscellany, in four parts. I. An essay towards the probable solution of the forty-five surprizing paradoxes in Gordon's Geography. II. Fifty-Five new and amazing paradoxes, some in Verse, some in Prose, with their Solutions. III. An algebraical solution to the Hundred Arithmetical and Geometrical problem s, left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick, and Alexander's Algebra: In the Solution of which, the Young Algebraist will find such a Variety of Examples, performed after so concise and plain a Method, as will enable him to comprehend the most abstruse Parts of that sublime Science. IV. Miscellaneous rules about forming Aenigmas, Questions, the Doctrine of Eclipses, of Pendulums, the Equation of Time, concerning Easter, &c. By a lover of the mathematicks.
Fuller, Samuel, -approximately 1736.Date: 1751- Books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium, for the year of our Lord, 1762. Containing, (besides what is annual and usual) Perpetual Tables for Old and New Style. A New Method of determining the Longitude from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. An Account of the late Transit of Venus over the Sun. With the Dimensions of the Solar System. The most universal, easy, and methodical Solution of the Keplerian Problem. New Improvements in Astronomy and Navigation. The fourteenth number published. By the author of the Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer. With a scale of rectification for estimating the true altitude of the column of mercurcy (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also The Theory and Construction of the Compound Barometer; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an appendix. Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The analyst: or, an introduction to the mathematics. Containing, I. The doctrine of vulgar and decimal fractions, wherein the Fundamental Principles are fully and clearly explained in all their Cases. II. The extraction of roots, according to the Newtonian Method, much preferable to that now taught in Schools. III. The first principles of algebra demonstrated in a very short and easy Method, illustrated with variety of Instances, in the Application thereof to the Solution of Problems. For the Use of Schools as well as of Private Gentlemen.
Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer. With a Scale of Rectification For estimating the True Altitude of the Column of Mercury (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also the theory and construction of the compound barometer ; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an Appendix, Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Mathematical exercises: Containing, I. The Principles of the Orthographick Projection of the Sphere; with the Application thereof to the Solution of some Problems in Astronomy, and the Demonstration of certain Theorems of great Use in Spherical Trigonometry. II. The Principles of the Stereographick Projection, and the Application thereof to the Describing of the Representations of the Circles, &c. of the Sphere on the Planes of different Great Circles. III. Sixteen new Problems, to be answered in the Second Number. By John Turner. No. I.
Turner, John, 1717-Date: M.DCC.L. [1750][-53?]- Books
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Apeiresia: or, the whole doctrine of decimal arithmetick, consisting of finite and infinite fractions. And Chiefly, A new Way of working the Two Orders of Infinites, suitable to their Natures; so that by two Places of either (equal to Ten Thousand) every Operation will turn out a just Solution, without so much as one Figure or Cypher, more or less than the Truth, and is thereby the same with a Finite or adequate Fraction. Compil'd, with all possible Plainness and Brevity, by Gabriel Nisbet.
Nisbet, Gabriel.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Digital Images
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Vials of drug solution
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A compendious system of natural philosophy. With notes, containing the mathematical demonstrations, and some occasional remarks. Part II. Continued. Consisting of five Dissertations. I. Of the Barometer. II. Of the Cause and Origin of the Winds. III. Of the Ascent of Vapours, and their Resolution into Rain, Hail, Snow, &c. IV. Of the Causes of Thunder and Lightning, with a Solution of the Phaenomena of the Aurora Borealis. V. A New Theory of Fermentation. By J. Rowning, M. A. Rector of Anderby in Lincolnshire, and late Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge.
Rowning, J. (John), 1701?-1771.Date: [1745]- Books
A treatise on the theory of solution including the phenomena of electrolysis / by William Cecil Dampier Whetham.
Dampier, William Cecil Dampier, Sir, 1867-1952.Date: 1902- Books
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708- Books
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The young trigonometer's new guide; containing The Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, deduced from the Principles of the Sphere in a Method entirely new; with the Analogies for solving all Cases, and Varieties of Triangles in every Way hitherto invented; with their Application to Practice. Together with The Principles of Fluxionary Trigonometry fully explained and exemplified in many useful Problems. also The Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained, and applied to the Delineation and Solution of Spherical Triangles, and the Construction of Maps and Dials. Illustrated by four copper-plates. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1772?]- Books
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The history of Israel Jobson, the wandering Jew. Giving a description of his pedigree, Travels in this lower World, and his Assumption thro' the Starry Regions, conducted by a Guardian Angel, exhibiting in a curious Manner the Shapes, Lives, and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Moon and Planets; touching upon the great and memorable Comet in 1758, and interwoven all along with the Solution of the Phaenomena of the true Solar System, and Principles of Natural Philosophy, concording with the latest Discoveries of the most able Astronomers. Translated from the original Chinese by M. W.
Date: 1757- Books
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An easy and compendious introduction to arithmetic and algebra. In two Parts. The First contains Arithmetic, vulgar and decimal; With Variety of Examples to explain each Rule: And the Method of squaring Dimensions, called Cross Multiplication; Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots; with their Application to Use. The Second Part Algebra; Being an easy Introduction to that admirable Way of Reasoning; with the Solution to upwards of One Hundred and Twenty Numerical and Geometrical Questions. The whole Delivered in a plain and familiar Manner; being a very useful Companion for all Students in Arithmetic and Algebra. By Richard Carr.
Carr, Richard (Arithmetician)Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The young arithmetician and algebraist's companion. In two parts. The first contains arithmetic, vulgar and decimal; With Variety of Examples to explain each Rule: And the Method of squaring Dimensions, called Cross Multiplication; Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots; with their Application to Use. The second part algebra; Being an easy Introduction to that admirable Way of Reasoning; with the Solution to upwards of One Hundred and Twenty Numerical and Geometrical Questions. The Whole Being rendered in a plain and familiar Manner; and is a very useful Companion for all Students in Arithmetic and Algebra. By Richard Carr.
Carr, Richard (Arithmetician)Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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An essay on the nature and superior use of globes, in conveying the first principles of geography and astronomy to the minds of youth; also a candid examination of the construction and use of planispheres, wherein The Erroneous Nature, and many bad Consequences, attending the Use of the Vulgar Projection are pointed out: and the nature and use of the globular projection, With many New Improvements, Illustrated by a Solution of Several Problems, Explaining the general Principles of Geography and Astronomy, by Way of Introduction to the more ready Use of the Globes. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Digital Images
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Oral rehydration solution demonstration, Lesotho
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The arithmetician's guide. In two parts. Part I. Containing practical arithmetic, thro' all its several denominations; in Examples wrought at large, and in a plain and easy Manner exhibited, and the Work of Fractions, both Vulgar and Decimal, compleated. Part II. Containing the principles of algebra, in a more plain and intelligible a Manner, than any heretofore extant. Illustrated in the Numerical and Literal Solution of many Examples, both in Simple and Quadratic Equations. Wherein every Process, both by Figures and Letters, are from Rules, so plain, easy, and clear, that Persons of a mean Understanding may comprehend them. By Tho. Crosby, Teacher of the Mathematics, upon Horsely-Down, in Southwark.
Crosby, Thomas, 1665-1768.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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The scripture doctrine, history and laws, relating to oaths and vows, leagues and covenants, set forth in a full and clear light. With an introduction, occasioned by one of the fundamental propositions in Mr. Whiston's Scripture politics; and concluding with a summary Dissertation upon the same important Subject. A Work long wanted, and much desired, in order to the Solution of such Doubts and Scruples, as are apt to arise in the Minds of sober and serious Persons, concerning the solemn Nature and Obligation of those sacred Oaths, which all of us are, or may be, required to take on various Occasions, according to our respective Offices or Employments.
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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The new British dispensatory. Containing the preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. With notes, Pointing out, in a concise manner, the methods of distinguishing the Goodness of most Articles in the Materia Medica. To which are added, The Genuine Recipes for several celebrated Medicines, which have hitherto been kept as valuable Secrets in the Hands of some eminent Practitioners: Particularly Chittick's Drops for the Stone. Goulard's Extract and Vegeto-Mineral Water. Keyser's Pills. Plunket's Powder for Cancers. Daran's Bougies. Plenck's Solution, &c. for Venereal Complaints. And many Others. With a Posological Table, for regulating the Doses of different Medicines; and a copious Index.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]