The Romance of Mathematics: Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with Some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic ; Equations to Brain Waves ; Social Forces ; and the Laws of Political Motion |
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Page 109 - after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle, renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her longabused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds
Page 79 - It appears from considerations which are detailed in works on physical astronomy, that two particles of matter placed at any sensible distance apart attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of their distance.
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Page 22 - a cone is a solid figure described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides containing the right angle, which remains fixed. The fixed side is called the axis of the cone.
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