The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 63Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1787 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... given of late , even among profeffed philofophers , to ftudies of a lefs abstract kind , has too frequently diverted the purfuits of mathema ticians into paths lefs fuited to their talents , from the defire of a vain and fleeting ...
... given of late , even among profeffed philofophers , to ftudies of a lefs abstract kind , has too frequently diverted the purfuits of mathema ticians into paths lefs fuited to their talents , from the defire of a vain and fleeting ...
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... given in all cafes ; from which also the famous differential feries is here deduced , and thereby fhewn to be of the fame degree of convergency with it . One excellence of this method is , that the flower a given feries converges or ...
... given in all cafes ; from which also the famous differential feries is here deduced , and thereby fhewn to be of the fame degree of convergency with it . One excellence of this method is , that the flower a given feries converges or ...
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... given , very happily fupplies this long defideratum in the fummation of feries . By means of it the given feries is trans- formed into another equivalent one , having this happy qua- lity , namely , that it converges always fo much the ...
... given , very happily fupplies this long defideratum in the fummation of feries . By means of it the given feries is trans- formed into another equivalent one , having this happy qua- lity , namely , that it converges always fo much the ...
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... given . It does not appear that Newton ever attempted one , or if he did , failing of fuccefs , he has left no traces of it , but fatisfied himself with conclu- fions from induction . Since his time , fome few demonstrations have been given ...
... given . It does not appear that Newton ever attempted one , or if he did , failing of fuccefs , he has left no traces of it , but fatisfied himself with conclu- fions from induction . Since his time , fome few demonstrations have been given ...
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... given as the most import- ant , and extends through upwards of one hundred and feventy pages . It is intitled New Experiments in Artillery ; for determining the Force of fired Gunpowder , the initial Velocity of Cannon Balls , the ...
... given as the most import- ant , and extends through upwards of one hundred and feventy pages . It is intitled New Experiments in Artillery ; for determining the Force of fired Gunpowder , the initial Velocity of Cannon Balls , the ...
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