| 单词 | mensuration |
| 例句 | Here Ockeghem, seemingly writing for three confident singers with wide vocal ranges, keeps the texture uniform and varies the mensuration, or rhythmic organization, almost not at all. Classical recordings: early voices in new lights 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Body temperature changes through the menstrual cycle, rising just before ovulation and falling as mensuration begins. Oura adds period prediction and heart rate to its next-gen smart ring 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Some women embrace it as a time to slow down from daily duties and celebrate womanhood and mensuration, and it is this idea that the Red Tent community draws from. In the blood: How 'The Red Tent' became a rallying cry for women 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z From the one, these Ionians probably gained knowledge of certain periodic movements of some of the heavenly bodies; and from the other, a few rules of mensuration, perchance a little crude science. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z It is merely a question of simple mensuration, and no problem of “high mathematics” is involved. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z His internal dimensions have long been a favorite theme of speculation to his friends, but, alas! the problem must ever set at defiance all the ordinary rules of mensuration. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z Comparative mensuration is a very popular process, and a very comforting process, for all, who have made small progress in self-knowledge; and this category comprehends all, but a very small minority. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z In the following year he published also at Padua Geometriae pars universalis, in which he gave a series of rules for the rectification of curves and the mensuration of their solids of revolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In the mensuration of plane figures, which may be boundaries of solid figures, this is particularly true. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z These theorems again lead to formulae in mensuration, if we compare a cylinder with a prism having its base and altitude equal to the base and altitude of the cylinder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z We say The kitchen is a sphere; this we divide, And take, one portion, as may suit our art, Borrowing the principles of mensuration. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z They had not attained to any just mode for the mensuration of the earth; a matter of great moment to astronomy, navigation, and other branches of useful knowledge. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z The highest class in the English is the fifth, and in the vernacular school the sixth, in which mensuration and transliteration from Urdu into Roman characters are taught. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z It is possible to add to the work in pure geometry some work in the mensuration of the curvilinear figures shown in these designs. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The mensuration of the sphere, like that of the circle, the cylinder and the cone, had not been settled in the time of Euclid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The summer of his nineteenth year was spent in the study of mensuration, surveying, etc., at a small sea-port town, a good distance from home. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z Burns, in his seventeenth year, was sent to Kirkoswald to study mensuration and surveying. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z He had acquired some French and Latin, studied mensuration, and acquainted himself with a good deal of poetry and many theological and philosophical books. A Day with the Poet Burns 2011-02-17T03:00:17.640Z This proposition is one of the most important in Book VII, because it is the basis of the mensuration of the cylinder as well as the prism. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z From these results follow again the rules at present given for the mensuration of solids, viz. a pyramid is the third part of a triangular prism having the same base and the same altitude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z If this be merely a device for the purpose of handling index numbers, a convention to aid mensuration, we need not, perhaps, challenge it. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z All these elements of mensuration within the crystal Ha�y thought could be indicated by rational coefficients. Catholic Churchmen in Science "Oh, I don't know that," I told her; "old Mustard is well up in mathematics and mensuration——" "What's mensuration?" Deep Moat Grange His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z From these propositions follow all results relating to the mensuration of volumes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Lord help you!" said my uncle, "he's as innocent of mensuration as an infant. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 You don't want them to learn mensuration and the use of the globes?' Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day All exact relations pertaining to the mensuration of the circle involve the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" This formula is, therefore, a very general one, relating to all the polyhedrons that are commonly met in mensuration. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Akbar likewise caused to be adopted improved instruments of mensuration, and with these he made a new settlement of the lands capable of cultivation within the empire. Rulers of India: Akbar Forest Mensuration: Forest mensuration, the art of measuring the contents and growth of trees and forest stands, is of fundamental importance. The Training of a Forester A professor of the new science of literary mensuration has applied his foot-rule to this mass of print, and publishes the result in "Bentley's Miscellany." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. “The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like,” I find him writing; and in truth what the engineer most properly deals with is that which can be measured, weighed, and numbered. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) For the mensuration of the circle they later used, as did the early Hebrews, the value π = 3. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z And he began to study arithmetic, geometry, geography, history, chemistry, drawing, Latin, French, mensuration, composition, physics, Scripture, and fencing. A Great Man A Frolic The subjects were very numerous and included arithmetic, mensuration, history, geography, and literature. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Mr. Fairbrain has given his own time as president of a lyceum for the use of the working classes, which furnishes the means of instruction in arithmetic, mathematics, drawing, and mensuration, and by lectures. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Quantity is that attribute of things in virtue of which they are susceptible of exact mensuration. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles In this manuscript, which is devoted chiefly to fractions and to a crude algebra, is found some work on mensuration. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z If it were an object of the slightest moment, perhaps liquid measurements would be more successful in ascertaining at least as much of the mensuration of the lower part of the coffer as still remains. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Well, I was saying that my old teacher had taught me a few simple problems in mensuration; and fortunately I still held them in my memory. The Boy Tar Such was the only form in which grants could be distributed, when the country was just occupied, and the science of mensuration and accounts almost unknown. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Now mensurability implies the existence of actual, definite limits, since without them there could be no fixed relation between the given object and the standard of measurement, and, consequently, no possibility of exact mensuration. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This papyrus also contains some treatment of the mensuration of solids, particularly with reference to the capacity of granaries. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z No man would think, for example, of placing a treatise on surveying, on mensuration, on geological stratifications, in any collection of his national literature. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Fortunately in my school arithmetic there were a few hints upon mensuration, and the good master had instructed us in these. The Boy Tar There were banking and equation of payments and all the "roots" and progression and alligation and mensuration. A Little Girl in Old Boston Jo Kettle sat down and pawed about for his mensuration book, which he studied for some time upside down. The Dew of Their Youth Evidently the selection must include the great basal propositions that are needed in mensuration and in later mathematics, together with others that are necessary to prove them. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Enough of mensuration was taught him to enable him to find out, though rather roughly, what was the size of a field, and how much corn would go into a granary of any particular size. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt Geometry, seemingly a clear case of abstract and theoretical science, arose out of the requirements of practical surveying and mensuration among the Egyptians. Human Traits and their Social Significance They have borrowed their foot-rule for the mensuration of the universe, and they apply it indiscriminately. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles I shall have the pleasure of a little interview with Master Joseph Kettle, student of mensuration.” The Dew of Their Youth There are only four leading propositions necessary for the mensuration of the circle and the determination of the value of π. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z I had passed triumphantly through decimals, and was busily employed in mensuration of solids, when one evening I was seized with a giddiness in my head. Jacob Faithful Horace, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Roman antiquities, more algebra, geometry and botany, the second term; while Horace, Homer, geometry, mensuration, and the application of algebra to geometry completed the year. The University of Michigan The next step was taken when Burns resolved to spend his nineteenth summer in Kirkoswald, to learn mensuration and surveying from the schoolmaster there, who was famous as a teacher of these things. Robert Burns It ends with information as to house-rent, letters of credit and exchange, tables of interest, games of chance, mensuration, and weights and measures. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study In the matter of the mensuration of the circle the annexed design has some interest. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z And again: 'To the mensuration of the surface and the solid, the number 10 is of little more use than any other. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 Penn, on the contrary, insisted on finding the fortieth degree by mensuration from the capes of Virginia, the true situation of which had been already ascertained. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Still the mensuration went on till one day, when in the kail-yard behind the teachers house, Burns met a young lass, who set his heart on fire, and put an end to mensuration. Robert Burns Merited gift or wage. mensuration Process of measuring. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States The following table may be of some service in assigning problems in mensuration in connection with the regular polyhedrons, although some of the formulas are too difficult for beginners to prove. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z No. 15 proposes a new system of mensuration; and, therefore, this does not fall within the subjects for consideration by the Conference. International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings Pupils learned to read and write, and received instruction in arithmetic and mensuration. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria So completely, indeed, have these organic dimensions served as the substrata of all mensuration, that it is only by means of them that we can form any estimate of some of the ancient distances. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library They are discovered by mensuration, and they are the objects of mathematical inquiry. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) These three form the foundation of trigonometry and of the mensuration of plane figures. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The mathematics in this school should consist of business arithmetic and mensuration. What the Schools Teach and Might Teach He is said to have turned out good scholars in the three R's, his curriculum being limited to these subjects, with, for an extra fee, mensuration added. The Parish Clerk By this accurate mensuration, the hugeness of the whole is apparent, and far beyond the mould of the largest ships used among us, either for war or cargo. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 But surely beauty is no idea belonging to mensuration; nor has it anything to do with calculation and geometry. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) As to the mensuration of the circle it is well for us to take a broad view before coming down to details. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In practical mensuration—a daily necessity for men who were perpetually allotting lands or marking out camps—the Romans were experts. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul It must be also evident, that a very small operation of an earthquake would be sufficient to render every means of information, in this manner of mensuration, unsatisfactory or precarious. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Partnership settlements involving time, exact interest, the extraction of cube and of square roots, partial payments, and many of the problems in mensuration, might well be omitted from all courses of study in arithmetic. How to Teach I don't see any great use, for my part, in studying geometry, and navigation, and surveying, and mensuration, and the dozen other things that I am expected to learn. Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys The applications of this problem to mensuration are numerous. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Our sensations will undoubtedly be in proportion to such circumstances, or our joy to the appretiation or mensuration of the evil which has been removed. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I He invented a curious monochord, which was not less accurate than his clocks in the mensuration of time. Men of Invention and Industry After leaving the High School, Alexander Nasmyth was taught by his father, first arithmetic and mensuration, next geometry and mathematics, so far as the first three books of Euclid were concerned. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography No pains has been spared, and a good deal of expense incurred in his education; accounts and mensuration, etc., he ought to know, and I believe he does. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 In architecture and in mechanics the cylinder is constantly seen, and the mensuration of the surface and the volume is important. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In every thing, except where mensuration can be applied, they may honestly differ. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 During that time I went twice through the 'Tutor's Assistant,' and a month before I left I was taught mensuration. Men of Invention and Industry I was an excellent penman, and a pretty good mathematician, as well as a complete master of mensuration. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Which of those three devices for the mensuration of time was the most exact in its indications? The Quest If one needs examples in mensuration beyond those given in a first-class textbook, they are easily found. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Indeed it is the method rather than the conclusion that is interesting in such of the subsequent propositions as relate to mensuration. Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes I took up mensuration, then astronomy, working at them slowly, but giving the bulk of my spare time to chemistry. Men of Invention and Industry This is the ultimate foundation in fact which enables us to speak with meaning of the mensuration, in Riemann's sense of the word, of the four-dimensional continuum of space-time. Sidelights on Relativity The type of mensuration, circle in square, on his desk, I use for my first exercise in the laws of Fésole. Mornings in Florence In Egypt geometry seems to have been in early times mere mensuration, confined largely to the priestly caste. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The Past is an unfathomable depth, Beyond the span of thought; 'tis an elapse Which hath no mensuration, but hath been For ever and for ever. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas Our sensations will undoubtedly be in proportion to such circumstances, or our joy to the appreciation or mensuration of the evil which has been removed. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) So clearly is this recognized, that the development of large scale business has led to the evolution of new methods of accountancy, designed to make detailed mensuration possible. Supply and Demand And, indeed, it becomes a question of mere mensuration, that can be settled in a moment. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He studies form, in mensuration, throughout his course in arithmetic, and this, too, is good educational policy. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z That might secure me a little peace from these daily mensurations.' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The subjects of instruction have all been retained in the Curriculum of the London School Board, except, perhaps, "mensuration" and "social economy." Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Ten times, twenty times, at every moment, for the least particle of mortar which she lays, she repeats her mensuration, never being quite certain that her trowel is going just where it should. Bramble-Bees and Others There is yet another cause of errour not always easily surmounted, though more dangerous to the veracity of itinerary narratives, than imperfect mensuration. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland The geometry of very ancient peoples was largely the mensuration of simple areas and solids, such as is taught to children in elementary arithmetic to-day. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z SOCRATES: I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will not be much. Philebus Some art of mensuration is required in order to show us pleasures and pains in their true proportion. Protagoras If they are relied upon as agencies for accurate mathematical results in mensuration and astronomy, there is no reason why they should be deemed unreliable in matters of evidence. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. It is of fundamental importance in most branches of geometry, and the basis of the whole of trigonometry—the special branch of geometry that deals with the practical mensuration of triangles. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought This is a fundamental theorem leading up to the mensuration of the prism. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z But there is also a higher arithmetic, and a higher mensuration, which is exclusively theoretical; and a dialectical science, which is higher still and the truest and purest knowledge. Philebus This leads at once to the corollary that the volume of a rectangular parallelepiped equals the product of its three dimensions, the fundamental law in the mensuration of all solids. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z This is also one of the basal propositions of solid geometry, and it has many applications in practical mensuration. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The mensuration of the volume of the prism, including the rectangular parallelepiped and cube, was known to the ancients. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z These two propositions are fundamental in the mensuration of the prism. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z And the exacter part of all of them is really arithmetic and mensuration. Philebus We find, however, in the papyrus of Ahmes, directions for the measuring of bins, and the Egyptian builders, long before his time, must have known the mensuration of the rectangular parallelepiped. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The first few propositions include those that lead up to the mensuration of the circle. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z |
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