| 单词 | rectilinear |
| 例句 | And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was composed of dazzling blue metal with an almost mirror shine to it, as smooth as water, and nowhere rectilinear or planar, but all flowing contours, as supple as skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The guest house repeated the clean, rectilinear lines of the main house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The pyramid and the rest of the city are oriented on a rectilinear grid 15° 25” from true north, a direction that may have aligned with the cave mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Another untitled shot of hers vividly contrasts rectilinear window-design with the organic branching of a tree on the other side of the glass. ‘The Ghost of Architecture’ haunts Henry Art Gallery 2013-08-15T19:20:58Z The rectilinear structure and its restrained materials palette of pale stone and stucco create a soothing backdrop for the decor, which Sarah conceived. A Modernist Dream House In Southern California 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of a Norman Rockwell scene which is loaded with art references, including Dutch 17th century paintings, the De Stijl movement and Piet Mondrian with his rectilinear compositions and reliance on only primary colors.” For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z It is among the first of what Mr. Turrell calls his “space division constructions”: paintinglike rectilinear cuts in walls that are lighted from without and sometimes within. Art Review: James Turrell Plays With Color at the Guggenheim 2013-06-20T23:01:56Z With its combination of curved and rectilinear lines, the marble lamp has a sculptural presence, whereas the aluminum design’s matte extruded exterior and hollow interior feel more high-tech. Getting a Brighter View During Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Rouse had a rectilinear bluesiness that pushed heartily against Monk’s oblique interpolations and helped to propel the pianist’s solos. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The show sings with the satisfying visual rhyming of the four-square forms of windows, walls and rooms with the rectilinear format of canvas or paper. Art Review: Romantics Shining Clear Light on Daily Existence 2011-04-07T22:30:23Z There are the familiar rectilinear shots and compositions with letters and drawings suddenly filling the screen like courtroom exhibits. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z And the figures become more dynamic, with stiffly rectilinear agrarian laborers giving way to the lurching diagonals of the factory men. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes the asymmetrical pattern subdivides the rectilinear shape of the canvas into subsections of equal sizes — halves, quarters and more. Valerie Jaudon's paintings: The more you look, the more you're pulled into her world 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Private life was to be rationalized through a succession of unornamented, rectilinear spaces, as in Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, a model for which is also on view here. Review: ‘Endless House’ Expands the Definition of Home 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Sarah Crowner, known over the last decade for stitching together cutout shapes of plain or painted canvas to form rectilinear abstract paintings, is sticking to first principles. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Eschewing rectilinear edges, de Kooning commissioned custom windows with acute angles. The Afterlife of Willem de Kooning 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z On the run from these agents of metaphysical threat, they find that the rectilinear world of Manhattan is a mess of crisscrossing wormholes, not subject to the usual laws of time and space. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z Furthering the idea, he added a horizontal “rectilinear” shelf and a grid of aluminum ones. Kitchens by the AD 100 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z But just as striking is the form that SOM created—crystalline, clean-lined, timeless, with angled curtain walls rising from a rectilinear base clad in glass and steel. Eight Daring New Buildings Around the World 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The Unesco-listed building’s glazed facade and “rectilinear volume” inspired a thousand UK factories, not to mention tower blocks and state schools. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Countless rectilinear shapes, silver and gray, rose in an abnormal sky of purplish clouds and freakishly pink light. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z These works represent Ms. Mayer’s response to painting, deconstructing and exploding the rectilinear canvas and using fabric for dynamic and organic ends. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z That enticing intersection of high and low, soft and hard, curvy and rectilinear also appears far more inviting—and more intriguing—than a deadly suite of matching chairs and sofas. The Aesthete: Living Rooms 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Rather than doing the kind of sporty swing dance one might typically associate with boogie-woogie, however, Verbeek performed a more rectilinear box-step, instructing her partner to pivot right while she swiveled left. Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The dreams in which much of the movie takes place are artificial constructs, rational, rectilinear simulacra designed to achieve specific ends. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z It’s the perfect organic foil for the rectilinear cabinets and consoles. Mary McDonald Debuts Her New Line for Chaddock 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z They decided to start afresh, and the result is a house completed in 2012 that is a confection of rectilinear volumes clad in glass, wood, stucco and even tree bark. An architect couple designs a dream house 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z A particularly artful black-and-white photograph reveals a woman’s calf and turned ankle, positioned against a rectilinear wooden desk. What You Didn’t Know About Barkley L. Hendricks 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The Max Rayne Centre, the new facility for the theater’s back-of-house scene shops and production offices, is a rectilinear structure covered with aluminum fins and a steel mesh. The National Theatre in London Has Undergone a $124 Million Refurbishment 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The empty form of the rectilinear chests thus takes on a suggestion of the many mysteries, still unresolved, that are safely contained in our reflexive ordering of the natural world. Ai Weiwei: A retrospective of his works AD: The interiors are primarily rectilinear, but there are some distinctive curves. Ryan Korban Gives AD a Private Tour of Balenciaga's New York Flagship 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z The steel monument forms are roughly human-sized, and while their layout looks strictly rectilinear at first, they actually have a slight spiral form in places, which is more organic than geometric. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The best part of the show is an installation that was done in situ, featuring a presumably finished canvas mounted on a free-standing wall sprayed with rectilinear forms. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Most poetic is the storied Hatch Cottage, a rectilinear structure designed in 1962 by Jack Hall. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “B&B sofas are traditionally quite formal and rectilinear,” Mr. Osgerby said. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The work at Gagosian is a big grid of 30 rectilinear volumes, each measuring 4 by 8 by 4 feet and arranged in three horizontal rows of 10; or, conversely, 10 vertical stacks of three. Donald Judd’s Plain-Spoken Masterpiece 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Lacking rigid infrastructure, these rectilinear elements have a slightly rumpled aspect; they resemble used furniture cushions. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z The hard edge between crisp, rectilinear color-shapes is like the sharpness at the boundary of a black shadow cast by an early afternoon California sun. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Pitt’s bases are less rectilinear, more fluid and luxurious, so there seems to be a nod to both Art Nouveau and Art Deco in his collection. Brad Pitt Creates His Own Furniture Collection 2012-11-07T23:41:43Z In a rectilinear rowhouse yard, he would turn the grid 45 degrees to create a diamond template. Author John Brookes was a rarity: A gardener who focused on design 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The spirit of her 1942 “Oil Composition” is characteristic: she breaks up what there is of a rectilinear grid by pushing a big, pale potato-shaped form straight through its center. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z On the third floor there are more photographs of the spheres and, laid out on rectilinear plinths, two colorful fabric works made by cutting up found textiles and stitching them together. Art Review: ‘Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol,’ at the Jewish Museum 2013-01-31T23:00:41Z Organic objects and shapes are rigorously organized into rectilinear patterns. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z They hewed more to limestone than brick and were less florid and more rectilinear. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z They are brilliantly shot, with rectilinear framings and compositions and some tremendously engaging sight gags. Film review: The Time That Remains 2010-05-27T21:25:00Z The great design challenge in a town garden, even one as generous as this, is to address the dominance of its rectilinear boundaries. The curtain falls on Ireland’s most famous private garden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Tan’s rapacious, rectilinear rabbits, some with wheels for feet, are stuffed so tightly into their uniforms that their ears stick out straight backward like a sprung collar. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z Flat reigns here in both circular and rectilinear wall pieces that date from 2002 to the present. Joyce Robins: ‘Paint and Clay’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Her canvases evolved from rectilinear to shaped; broke into fragments and reunited, but gained various protrusions. Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z A rectilinear side table is composed of a spare cement shell with a luminous silica lining. AMMA Studio Makes Beautiful Furniture from Unconventional Materials 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z They are hard-edged, geometric and abstract, built of rectilinear forms that radiate from their centers, spilling occasionally onto the sides of the canvases. Review: Elaine Lustig Cohen’s Paintings Move Into Philip Johnson’s Glass House 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The house on the left, with rectilinear brickwork, was probably built more recently. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Dubbed Villa Bond for its clean lines and sleek look, this rectilinear two-story Spanish escape sits on nearly ten acres with sweeping views of the island. Capri, Italy : Stunning Villas, Castles, and Modernist Retreats to Rent This Summer 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z Similarly, Ms. Cornaro’s rectilinear steel columns at the south end of the High Line look like restaurant decorations, with their cast-relief surfaces of ropes and bricks. Artworks Along the High Line 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “What they presented to me was a rectilinear pier. I thought, ‘This is stupid. Perspective | Little Island is New York’s latest landing strip for theater, music, art — and ambition 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Ultimately, a more manageable and less expensive plan — the symmetrical and rectilinear form we know today — was adopted. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes it is even a bit of a stretch — for instance, merely the rectilinear box inside of which an assemblage might be constructed. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The brightly lighted curve visually erased the sharp, angled edge that made any rectilinear painting into a figure standing against the wall’s ground. Robert Irwin, pioneer of Light and Space art who designed Getty's Central Garden, dies at 95 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone. Notre-Dame: Renovators rush to complete refit by 2024 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The new structure, which almost doubles the overall exhibition area, is a series of interlinked, rectilinear pavilions cascading down a hill and over a freeway toward the harbor. Perspective | Sydney finally gets the destination museum it deserves 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z And they were arranged along streets that meandered a bit but were fairly conventional in their rectilinear layout. Perspective | Exploring the circular logic of the Foxhall Crescents development 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Here we examine one specific example that involves rectilinear motion. Calculus, Volume 1 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Painting as a rectilinear portal on the world, it seemed at the time, belonged to an age of mere illusionism. Perspective | Sam Gilliam never fought the canvas. He liberated it. 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The quarry was deep and steep-sided with three strictly rectilinear faces: They looked like the towering sides of buildings, as though the mountain had already contained inside itself the idea of a city. When I Went Away From the World 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z I’m looking forward to trying these models out and am tentatively in favor of the rectilinear future they point to in the PC space. Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z-Series targets — you guessed it — Gen-Z 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Volvo is perhaps best known in America for rectilinear sedans and, especially, station wagons. No Longer Boxed In, Volvo Wins Over Buyers With Its Sleeker Look 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It looks clearly altered — the flag appears too rectilinear and the script too flat to be on a moving flag. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Within his rectilinear framework, Mondrian arranged colors — usually red, yellow and blue along with black, white and gray — to construct images that, still today, give off a feeling of astonishing lucidity and “rightness.” Perspective | There’s rhythm in this Piet Mondrian masterpiece. Is there also code? The galleries are composed of two dozen rectilinear spaces — basically, boxes — arranged in clusters and surrounded by interstitial spaces that will also display art. What will LACMA's new building look like inside? Here are the long-awaited gallery plans 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z “What we wanted to do was really go back to the initial concept around ThinkPad, which was really about this perfect black rectilinear box,” says Leonard. Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z-Series targets — you guessed it — Gen-Z 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Williams was born in 1894 and died in 1980 — and his career as a designer spans the graceful, undulating forms of Spanish Revival architecture to the more rectilinear shapes of Modernism at mid-century. Architect Paul Williams' archive, thought lost to fire, is safe. The Getty and USC will acquire it 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Her carefully composed shoulders and arms form a rectilinear box. Review: A Getty show rummages around in Edouard Manet's private shadows 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Starting with a blank slate, Bauer consulted early on with a landscape designer who was also an artist, and noted the main pathway to the house “was very rectilinear,” she says. With an artistic pedigree — and perhaps a bit of an obsession — landscape designer Lisa Bauer creates a layered yard of expertly framed delights 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Architect and master of rectilinear form Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as head in 1930, but two years later the right-wing local government forced it to close. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Boxy rectilinear compartments hold an array of gently rounded, boldly outlined creatures painted in saturated colors, starting at the top with a crimson lion — king of the beasts. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z In some places, I could see the outlines of what were once fields and are now rectilinear lakes. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z An unlit cigarette clasped between two fingers of her other hand extends from an arm laid on a diagonal across the rectilinear table. Review: A Getty show rummages around in Edouard Manet's private shadows 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Textured, matte and rectilinear where Disney is sleek, glossy and calligraphic, the Broad negotiates between the concert hall’s effusiveness and the lineup of introverted boxes along Grand. How Disney Hall has transformed a downtown L.A. neighborhood and the city beyond 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Others are more architectural and rectilinear, like tiny, jagged towers. Joanne Greenbaum’s sculptures find poignancy in imperfection 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Instead, they are purposefully set between two big buildings — rectilinear boxes whose sharp perspective thrusts them out toward a viewer, like spokes on a wheel. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The next decade, Mosher Drew added a boxy auditorium to the south that connected to the museum via a rectilinear portico. Commentary: Critics say a San Diego museum's Postmodern entry should be preserved. But why keep what doesn't work? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Newton was explicit about his debt to ancient philosophy, Democritus in particular, for ideas that arose originally from philosophical motivations, such as the notions of empty space, atomism and natural rectilinear motion. Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The phenomenon is based on a design for Manhattan outlined in “The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811” for a rectilinear grid, or “gridiron” of straight streets and avenues that intersect one another at right angles. Manhattanhenge: What It Is, and How to See It 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z As opposed to the rectilinear tower blocks of the communist era, the library, though it matches them in height, is smooth and chamfered. Libraries that speak loudly 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The boxy rectilinear composition of the women fits right in between them, making the women inseparable from the public setting. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z As the tracking light passes through the gels, rectilinear shapes in bright, vibrant colors are projected below onto an enormous screen and set into motion at the far end of the room. Artist Olafur Eliasson built a 'Reality projector' of smashing beauty 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “A normal rectilinear bookcase under a slanted ceiling will always feel like a visual compromise, whereas this is so clean and self-contained,” said Mr. Thompson, who’s a big fan of built-in accommodations for books. Showing Off Your Books: The Dos and Don’ts 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Set to open later this year, the Sarasota Modern hotel, a crisply rectilinear, retro-looking building with giant windows, is among dozens of examples of the new building boom. A Florida Beach Vacation with Snob Appeal 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The head of the department is Vadim Volkov, a man with a square face and a rectilinear torso, who confessed to the Grands that he has a complicated relationship with Lipetsk. How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Second, the voluptuous softness of the women’s curvilinear shapes is paradoxically arranged into a rectilinear composition, with each woman’s head located at the corner of a visual box. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The population began to creep out into nearby middle-class neighborhoods like Bayside, where the schools were better and the relatively spacious houses sat on quiet streets with tidy, uniformly rectilinear front lawns. What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z With its rectilinear forms and rustic simplicity, it can be thought of as an early manifestation of Modernism. The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z He took the truck through Herndon Homes, before they were knocked down, and rolled daily among the new apartments — clean, brick, rectilinear, blandly handsome — where Techwood Homes used to be. Rolling Stores, Vestige of Old Atlanta, Struggle to Keep Up With Change 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z In one, rectilinear streets divided the frame, but some rooftops also appeared to form, in a fortuitous counterpoint, a spiral—Lagos, self-organizing. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The city’s rectilinear grid above Houston Street allows for better mobility. Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Just Too Crowded 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The ridges were rectilinear and seemed to outline doorways. The Factory of Fakes 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The painting’s background is subtly sewn through with the rectilinear blues and yellows and reds and white of Mondrian’s work, to which the painting’s title playfully alludes. Kerry James Marshall Is Shifting the Color of Art History 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “The idea evolved from making a simple rectilinear bottle and turning it inside out so it still has a square top and bottom—something that played with both geometry and softness.” Step Into Christian Louboutin’s Gorgeous Portugal Abode 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Two hours from Las Vegas, overlooking the Virgin River, the sculpture consists of two deep rectilinear cuts across the top of a convex mesa, or, as Heizer puts it, a two-hundred-and-forty-thousand-ton displacement. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The chip-seal gravel road, a mix of asphalt and crushed limestone, is lined with 80 Italian cypress trees to match the rectilinear style of the home. Driveways That Go the Extra Mile 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z To accomplish the effect, contrast rectilinear pieces such as the boxy Duffley armchair and the Geo-Earth planters with a sinuous show-stopper such as Walter Lamb’s classic chaise. The A-to-Z Guide to Outdoor Furniture 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z With the three gardens Burle Marx created there in 1938, he ruptured completely with the past, massing native plants into textured, amoeba-like shapes that seem to burst from within their rectilinear frames. Landscape Artist Roberto Burle Marx’s Lasting Influence 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In charts of the harbour drawn amid the debate over whether to rebuild or abandon Port Royal, the fluid, uncertain form of the latter contrasts sharply with Kingston’s rigid, rectilinear grid. Story of cities #9: Kingston, Jamaica – a city born of 'wickedness' and disaster 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Manhattan’s iconic rectilinear street grid has been called “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” The History Behind Manhattan's Street Grid 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z At first glance, the five rectilinear islands that bob off the south shore of Jamaica Bay look like an art installation cooked up in a studio in Williamsburg or Bushwick. Pilot Program Aims to Save Jamaica Bay’s Shrinking Marshes 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The calming lines of the rectilinear tower contrast with “the ragged skyline of the city” which “resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis”. Why JG Ballard’s High-Rise takes dystopian science fiction to a new level 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z They are part of a forties-New York efflorescence, the blinking, stable, dynamic, and yet still rectilinear energy—an image of energy that breaks with the usual organic forms of ecstatic spirals and gyres. When Gentrification Is Good 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The midsection bulges out from a rectilinear frame in twisting, tubular shapes, like the intestines of a sci-fi monster. Symphonies and Sing-Alongs 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Canon is also introducing a new 11-24mm f/4 L lens, which it says is the widest-angle rectilinear zoom lens in the world. Canon's 50-megapixel EOS 5DS is the highest-resolution DSLR ever 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Initial renderings envisioned a barlike addition placed at an angle atop the rectilinear steel-and-glass structure, to be occupied by commercial or residential tenants whose rent payments would in theory subsidize the renovation of the library. Plans for renovation of D.C.’s MLK Library are scaled back amid financial, preservation concerns 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z But for many of the club members, the core attraction remains the chance to leave the city’s rectilinear street grid to engage with the water. Summer Shorelines: In Water They Wouldn’t Dare Drink, Paddlers Find a Home 2013-08-29T15:55:52Z The typewriter's mechanism of levers beneath each key also dictated that the letters be staggered diagonally across the keyboard, rather than arranged in a rectilinear grid, to prevent the levers from running into one another. Will the Kalq keyboard finally spell the end for qwerty? 2013-04-25T12:32:39Z When a geometer wishes to understand the form of a curve, he first resolves it into small rectilinear elements. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z This we can only do by conceiving them as originally moving through intelligible space in rectilinear paths and with uniform velocities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z In 1779, Matthew Wasborough, an engineer of Bristol, obtained a patent, as others, indeed, had before him, for converting a rectilinear into a continuous circular motion. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z This power of the eye rests upon two things, namely, the rectilinear propagation of the disturbance by which it is effected, and upon its sensitiveness. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z So far the relative motion is practically rectilinear. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z As soon as we have grasped the fact of the rectilinear propagation of light, the regular course of our thoughts stumbles at the phenomena of refraction and diffraction. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Quite soon you will begin to find that everything is too rectilinear. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z On the other hand, the sea seemed to arch its back, constantly rising, devouring with its blue rectilinear jaws a portion of the sky at each turn in the climb. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Once the old skin has passed over the thick mid-body, the snake often crawls forward using rectilinear locomotion until the skin is completely shed. Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) 2011-12-17T03:00:17.963Z In the horse the same arch, less prominent externally, is prolonged by a rectilinear crest on the superior maxillary bone, where it is continued in forming the zygomatic or maxillary spine. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z At the same time, her motions were not awkward; she managed her rectilinear body with a surprising ease and pliancy. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And a rectilinear process has no right to get into a circle! Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z From the study of the rectilinear figures suggested by such a simple pattern the properties of the equilateral triangle may be inferred. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Similarly for the nose, of which three main varieties are recognised, according as the line of the back is concave, rectilinear, or convex. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z Its descending portion, as a whole, has a rectilinear form, and does not form a curve such as we indicated in the case of the horse. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Some 2000 years previously one Antipho, probably the well-known opponent of Socrates, has regarded a circle in like manner as the limiting form of a many-sided inscribed rectilinear figure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Whenever a small set of abstractions is picked out, as the source and cause of the rest of a movement, such a process of rectilinear causation is implied. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z When the lines containing the angle are straight, the angle is called rectilinear. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z We don’t do a lot of very standard 20-story rectilinear buildings. | The 30-Minute Interview: Thomas Z. Scarangello 2011-09-17T08:00:26Z The superior border, which is convex or rectilinear, is thin, and is separated from the posterior border by an obtuse angle. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The hyperbolic paraboloid is also covered by two systems of rectilinear generators as a method like that used in � 34 establishes without difficulty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Who can decide between rectilinear and curvilinear geometry?—between the theory of straight lines and the theory of curved lines? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Yet instead of designing a rectilinear structure, Mr. Ma decided to create something that was a bit softer and more livable. Square Feet: Toronto Suburb Leans Toward the Curvaceous 2011-07-19T20:10:25Z The figure is not oblong, as most Roman works of the kind were, but irregularly rectilinear. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z From the day 200 years ago when the street grid was imposed on Manhattan, New York was destined to be a rectilinear city. Curves of the City 2011-05-01T02:09:24Z To describe a rectilineal figure which shall be similar to one given rectilinear figure, and equal to another given rectilineal figure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Every free body continues in the state in which it may be, whether of rest or of rectilinear uniform motion, until compelled to deviate from that state by impressed forces. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z After this period of stormy ornament came a calm in the eighteenth century, façades became rectilinear, and there was a general subsidence of obvious effort. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z This fact will show that geographers can no longer mark the limit of vegetation by a rectilinear zone, but must accommodate such line to climatological and local conditions. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z The rectilinear shape may be one problem, said Bruce Hannah, a professor of industrial design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and a writer on accessible, or universal, design. With kids and coffee tables, it's trip, fall, ouch 2010-12-30T20:12:19Z The pair’s buildings include the acclaimed New Museum in New York, a sculptural stack of rectilinear boxes on the Bowery, which was completed in 2007. Sanaa of Japan Wins Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010-03-29T04:50:00Z The use of a rack on the piston-rod, working into a sector on the end of the beam, thus securing a perfect rectilinear motion of the rod. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z Though she said nothing of a garden, I imagined a very strait-laced one with rectilinear, timidly-flowering walks, the sort of garden that is not cherished with love. Woman Crystals, it is said, affect regular geometric forms, salient angles, and rectilinear edges, while living beings have rounded forms without any geometric regularity. The Mechanism of Life In studying many chains of mountains, we find that the strike or line of outcrop of continuous sets of strata, and the general direction of the chain, may be far from rectilinear. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology All to make room for new buildings more suitable to tenants with sensitive noses and rectilinear tastes. Fragments of an Autobiography It is fitted with the No. 0 Ball Bearing shutter, speed 1/50 of a second, with cable release, as described on page 6, and offers the choice of rapid rectilinear or meniscus achromatic lens. Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 It had not the methodical precision and rectilinear propriety of the elderly gentleman. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Every physical laboratory may thus produce its own spectroscopic gratings, rectilinear, circular, or of any desired form. The Mechanism of Life Rectilinear figures cannot be divided into triangles and quadrilaterals because there are rectilinear figures which have more than four sides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" They all tend rectilinearly towards a centre, because of the sphereicity with which they have been irradiated into space. Eureka: A Prose Poem The camera is furnished with either meniscus achromatic or rapid rectilinear lens. Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 Many substances, indeed, actually appear to have a rectilinear diameter, and the value of a appears approximatively to be the same. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Of rectilinear forms, lozenges, guilloches, zigzags, and checkers are best known. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 Thus: "A triangle is a three-sided rectilinear figure" is Verbal or Analytic; "Triangles have three angles together equal to two right angles," or "Triangles are studied in schools," is Real or Synthetic. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This rectilinear arrangement of the western chain, only a little less conspicuous in the eastern, is very suggestive of a line of fracture in the crust beneath. Volcanoes: Past and Present Also supplied with rapid rectilinear lens if desired. Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 For associating substances the diameter is not rectilinear. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" They give information regarding the position and rectilinear movements of the head, as the canals do of rotary head movements. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Another question to which he devoted much attention was that of obtaining rectilinear motion by linkage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" In the forms of knowledge we find again much less diversity than in the fifth gift,—the rectilinear solids and consequent absence of oblique angles limiting us in the construction of geometrical forms. Froebel's Gifts In the rectilinear beds the stocks glinted like bright, wavy silk, and the scent of the box-hedges was warm and bitter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 These group around the type of experiment which shows a modification of the natural uniform rectilinear motion of any object by some hidden force, most often a concealed magnetic field. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College The long rectilinear mound seemed shaggy with gorse and thorn, that rose against the sides, and intertwisted their prickly branches atop. Leading Articles on Various Subjects The models are of two kinds:—rectilinear and curvilinear. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science Although the gifts, from third to ninth, illustrate straight lines, angles, and rectilinear figures, yet the occupations present many facilities for keeping the curve before the eye of the child. Froebel's Gifts The largest of these is apparently the occasion of a slight deviation from its otherwise rectilinear course. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture The only touch of comfort in its rectilinear shape was a cushion laid upon its seat. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel On the power of icebergs to make rectilinear uniformly-directed grooves across a submarine undulatory surface. Life of Charles Darwin With these marine plants we occasionally find large rectilinear stems, resolved into a true coal, but retaining no organic character by which to distinguish them. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The outlines of all geometrical plane figures both rectilinear and curvilinear may be illustrated with the point as well as straight and curved lines and angles of every degree. Froebel's Gifts However that may have been, the image must have been very imperfect from the day that the rectilinear trace came into general use. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 I will, however, suppose that the original boundary is everywhere rectilinear. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc A powerful disturbing influence might greatly alter the velocity of the star; it might deflect the star from its rectilinear course; it might even force the star to move around a closed orbit. The Story of the Heavens It has, however, proportionally a stouter stem than Lycopodium; its leaves, when seen in profile, seem more rectilinear and thin; and none of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed This time they took a course rectilinear Southward, and landed in Norfolk, Virginia. Nothing to Say A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear' His elementary motions were continuous circular, alternating circular, continuous rectilinear, and alternating rectilinear. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt It is clear then that, after every cutting, the boundary is still rectilinear. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The actual path is, indeed, more complicated than a simple rectilinear movement. The Story of the Heavens P. 41, ANEMONE, 'Sea-anemone' amended to Animal Flowers; ANGLE, invalid links: 'curvilinear' and 'rectilinear'. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I have never seen a nose with a broad back, whether arched or rectilinear, that did not belong to an extraordinary man. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science This device, employed by Hachette to show conversion of continuous rectilinear motion into alternating circular motion, appeared in one publication after another throughout the 19th century. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt The concavity of the two lower lines towards the horizontal base-line shows that the surface-velocity of the corresponding waves increases rapidly with the distance, far more so than would be possible with rectilinear motion. A Study of Recent Earthquakes A stone similarly cast into empty space would pursue a course absolutely rectilinear. The Story of the Heavens By linear, or perhaps, more correctly, rectilinear incision. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Englishmen have the shortest and best-arched foreheads—that is to say, they are arched only upwards, and, towards the eyebrows, either gently recline or are rectilinear. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The rows of gables that occur so often are not quite planed away into rectilinear dulness yet, as you may see along the Rue des Faux, or even Eau de Robec here and there. The Story of Rouen In mechanics the parallelogram of forces is quackery, and is dangerous; for nothing is at rest, or in uniform, or in rectilinear motion, in the universe. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I We have seen how the appendages declined to invisibility once every fifteen years, and then gradually reappeared in the form, at first, of rectilinear arms projecting outwards from the planet. The Story of the Heavens I take it to be impossible that a floating mass of ice should travel onward in one rectilinear direction, turning neither to the right nor to the left, for such a distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The more curved and cornerless the outline, the more tender and flexible the character; and the more rectilinear, the more pertinacious and severe the character. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Rectigrade: larvae which, having sixteen feet, walk with a rectilinear body. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology "Humanism," he says, "conceiving the more 'true' as the more 'satisfactory,' has sincerely to renounce rectilinear arguments and ancient ideals of rigour and finality." Personality in Literature Mercury and Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, unmistakably show that, as they are not moving in rectilinear paths, they must be exposed to some force. The Story of the Heavens It has been ascertained that most of the great storms that sweep with devastating fury over the land and sea are not, as was supposed, rectilinear in their motion, but circular. The Ocean and its Wonders This road passes through a hill-country, and what it gains in the picturesque it loses in that rectilinear directness most grateful to the traveler with a sensitive stomach. The Bibliotaph and Other People Raoul had by this time set Hercules’s head for the clump of timber which he had taken as his guide, and now kept on in a track almost rectilinear. The Rifle Rangers Beyond the bridges extended the winding ways of the English garden, which in those days had quite thrown into the background the earlier taste for stony, wall-like, rectilinear alleys. A Hungarian Nabob Admitting, then, the rectilinear path of the body, the next question which arises relates to the velocity with which that movement is performed. The Story of the Heavens They are separate, disconnected, fragmentary; whereas the lines drawn by the hard materials set in the glacier, whether light and fine or strong and deep, are continuous, often unbroken for long distances, and rectilinear. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 For the attraction of gravitation is always in right lines; but there is no rectilinear motion in the heavens; all celestial motions are curvilinear. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Two momental areas lying in the same moment can cut each other in a momental segment which is not necessarily rectilinear. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 These lines are either rectilinear, undulated, or zigzag; sometimes passing over the forehead transversely, or vertically; sometimes in the same direction, or obliquely over the whole visage, or upon the breast, arms, &c. Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk That influence, whatever it may be, constantly deflects the earth from the rectilinear path which it tends to pursue, and constrains it to trace out an ellipse instead of a straight line. The Story of the Heavens The bed of Glen Spean, through its whole extent from east to west, is marked, as I have said, by glacial action, in rectilinear scratches and furrows. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 The rectilinear lines which are stretched in front of the webs of many Epeirids are useful in taking and sending on to the spider the shock which tells of an approaching enemy. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The two types of straight routes will be called rectilinear routes and stations. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The rectilinear motion of g is 5 mm. for a variation of one meter in level. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 The lens used for this purpose must be capable of giving a perfectly sharp picture right up to the edges, and must be of the class called rectilinear, i.e., giving straight lines. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 The two distinct types of lenses are the "rapid rectilinear" and the "anastigmatic," which names refer to their optical properties in distributing the light. Outdoor Sports and Games It admitted them to a rectilinear place of white doors and distempered walls. The Judge Assuming that our forecasts of rectilinear motion are correct, these rects occupy the straight lines in timeless space which are traversed. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 One is where the houses are erected on the rectilinear, the other is where they are built on the circular plan. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens As a rule the schemes were rectilinear, more rarely they were carried out in curves. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders At the foot of the stalls, a narrow rectilinear filleting of the same material had bounded the whole. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Thus Euclid makes a famous assumption—the 'parallel-postulate'—which amounts to the assertion that if three of the angles of a rectilinear quadrilateral are right angles, the fourth will be a right angle. Recent Developments in European Thought By wedging up the ring of a gimbal the motion of the pendulum is changed from universal to rectilinear. Things To Make There is in that country a rectilinear continuity of mountains, and a parallelism among the ridges, no where else to be observed, at least not in such a great degree. Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) Following the analogy, it would seem that the next step should be to employ two branches with only one pin; but the rectilinear hypocycloid of Fig. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 The next driver was a long rectilinear figure with extremely sloping shoulders and a back as flat as a board. The Bishop and Other Stories On this theory the evolution of religion was, if we may so describe it, linear or rectilinear: the process consisted in a series of successive stages. Recent Developments in European Thought The use of two little wedges will then convert the apparatus in a moment from semirectilinear to purely rectilinear. Things To Make There its rectilinear movement changed to a circular one of extreme velocity, and it has been drawn round the moon in an elliptical orbit, and has become her satellite. The Moon-Voyage It could gyrate in a spiral, or spin on its axis in a rectilinear path like a rifled bullet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Why were all the great forests pierced by those long rectilinear alleys which appear in old prints, and are mentioned in old books? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831 If this instance be taken as typical of the process of evolution in general, then the course of evolution is not, so to speak, linear or rectilinear, but—to use M. Bergson's word—'dispersive'. Recent Developments in European Thought The figures obtained by this simple modification are the results of compounded rectilinear and circular movements. Things To Make An immovable cube, it plunges its rectilinear planes apeak into the numberless serpentine curves of the sea. The Man Who Laughs The Colonel then retired into a sort of ambuscade—at least he mingled with a small clump of three Scotch firs, and stood amongst them so rectilinear he might have passed for the fourth stump. A Perilous Secret In the draw-head mechanism, the pins move, while in contact with the fibres, in a rectilinear or straight path. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth He follows back to the piston of the engine and finds the motor there,—satisfied that he has discovered in the transference of rectilinear to rotatory motion the reason for the progress of the boat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 The outlines on the contrary, on the north, north-west, and western shores, are most commonly uniform, rectilinear, the summits flat, and diversified only by occasional detached and conical peaks, none of which are very lofty. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 So Mr. Asche, being rectilinear, was on the square; just as Mr. Hogan, being soft and round, was slippery and hard to hold. By Advice of Counsel The absorption spectrum observed through a crystal varies with the direction of the rectilinear luminous vibration which propagates itself in this crystal. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 And he would look across the double mountain of the island of Capri, black in the distance, closing the gulf like a promontory, and the coast of Sorrento as rectilinear as a wall. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel In the Bois de Boulogne, in spite of military devastation, the curious eye may still distinguish, in the rectilinear disposition of the trees, the traces of this extraordinary achievement. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass. The Devil's Dictionary The rectilinear movement has thus become changed into a circular motion of extreme velocity, and it is now pursuing an elliptical orbit round the moon, of which it has become a true satellite. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon A beam of light reflected from a metallic surface, or from glass surfaces under certain peculiar conditions, acquires properties still more complex, its vibrations being no longer rectilinear, but circular, or elliptical. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q The twice-born look down upon the rectilinear consciousness of life of the once-born as being "mere morality," and not properly religion. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The rectilinear motion of the piston-rod was thus converted into rotary motion. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Thenardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign of the cross, the seminary. Les Misérables Beginning with the fundamental division of figures into curvilinear and rectilinear, this dictum decides, that, in general, a curved outline is more beautiful than a right-lined figure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The boat skirted the northern shores of the lake at about three miles’ distance, following a rectilinear direction, so that the wooded heights sloping gradually to the west were distinctly visible. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Over this species of collector, which maybe rectilinear or wound around a cylinder, let us pass two brushes fixed to an insulating piece that may be moved by hand. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Their strong peculiarity, however, the one that has been preserved in spite of all the changes that centuries have brought, was the rectilinear and geometrical manner in which they were laid out. Two Summers in Guyenne I am to the great majority of men what the circle is to rectilinear figures; I am everywhere at home, because I have no particular and nominative self. Amiel's Journal Our second deduction relates principally to rectilinear figures; it is, that symmetry is in general, and particularly in rectilinear figures, more beautiful than irregularity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The student was a dogmatic reasoner, dry, rectilinear, never swerving from his point of view; he spoke but little, but when he did speak, it was in a sententious manner. The Quest The condenso-purifier consists of three perforated diaphragms, placed one over the other in rectilinear cast-iron boxes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Our line of march, about six hundred rectilinear geographical miles, had been nearly due west from Zanzibar. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile It was a flat and grimy abode of mere commerce, a rectilinear Glasgow; and to an Edinburgh man, or rather boy, no comparison could appear more damaging. America To-day, Observations and Reflections But these combined patterns are on the whole the same, instead of rectilinear figures. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes My means of doing this depended on two of the best-established peculiarities of this strange force: its rectilinear direction and its conductibility. Across the Zodiac Another law was his principle of inertia that any body, in so far as it is able, continues its state either of rest or in uniform, rectilinear motion. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III For instance, the term quadrilateral, or four-sided rectilinear figure, is correctly divided into square, oblong, rhombus, rhomboid and trapezium. Deductive Logic In this position, being subjected to great pressure, they scoop out long rectilinear furrows or grooves parallel to each other on the subjacent solid rock. The Antiquity of Man The form above this is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms; its diameters are not rectilinear, but variously circular, and have a spherical surface for center; therefore it is called the perpetual-circular. Representative Men In this way he arrived at a space-structure which possesses neither the three-dimensionality nor the rectilinear character of so-called Euclidean space - a space-picture which, though mathematically consistent, is incomprehensible by the human mind. Man or Matter As apogeotropism acts more and more energetically, ellipses or loops cease to be formed, and the course becomes at first strongly, and then less and less zigzag, and finally rectilinear. The Power of Movement in Plants The direction of this second part of the motion must be referred entirely to necessity, which directly interferes with the purpose of him who designed the rectilinear direction. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Thus the idea of an equilateral triangle of an inch perpendicular may serve us in talking of a figure, of a rectilinear figure, of a regular figure, of a triangle, and of an equilateral triangle. A Treatise of Human Nature Down below there, rectilinear, scientifically paralleled and squared, the Yard disclosed itself. The Pit Here things happen as in a first-class reed, for the helical curve in no way affects the method of structure employed for a rectilinear series of cells. Bramble-Bees and Others Two other radicles of the cabbage travelled downwards in almost rectilinear courses. The Power of Movement in Plants Marcia's eyes flashed, and her face burnt with an angry heat, the enhanced beauty which this warmth might have brought being killed by the rectilinear sternness of countenance that came therewith. The Well-Beloved Now a triangle is divided into no circumference, but two diameters cut a circle into four triangles; therefore a rectilinear figure is before a circular, and has more of the nature of an element. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies "On the Power of Icebergs to make rectilinear, uniformly-directed grooves across a Submarine Undulatory Surface." More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 For both construction as well as for destruction, his rectilinear method is the quickest and most vigorous. The French Revolution - Volume 2 The zigzag movement to either side is likewise gradually lessened, so that finally the course becomes rectilinear. The Power of Movement in Plants In those straight, rectilinear avenues the king, with his cane in his hand, groups around him his entire retinue. The Ancient Regime Or is a right line in Nature prior to circumference; or is circumference but an accident of rectilinear? Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies On the power of Icebergs to make rectilinear, uniformly-directed Grooves across a Submarine Undulatory Surface. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Paganel descanted in the most inopportune manner about the direction of atmospheric currents, making interesting comparisons, between tornadoes, cyclones, and rectilinear tempests. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant The manner in which a circumnutating movement—that is, one consisting of a succession of irregular ellipses or loops—is gradually converted into a rectilinear course towards the light, has been already explained. The Power of Movement in Plants To bring them within its rectilinear limits they require to be reduced and made over; the Macbeth of Shakespeare becomes that of Ducis, and the Mahomet of the Koran that of Voltaire. The Ancient Regime And Plato himself shows that a rectilinear is in the first place, and a circular is only consequential and accidental. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies It would become merged in this spiral if the number of radii were infinite, for this would reduce the length of the rectilinear elements indefinitely and change this polygonal line into a curve. The Life of the Spider Place a rectilinear piece of this conductor in a horizontal position over an ordinary magnetic needle so that it is parallel to it. A History of Science — Volume 3 When the difference in the light on the two sides was somewhat greater, the ellipses were drawn out into a strongly-marked zigzag line, and when much greater the course became rectilinear. The Power of Movement in Plants That the moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit. A History of Science — Volume 2 For when he says the earth consists of cubes, each of which is contained with rectilinear superficies, he says the earth is spherical and round. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The endless scroll leads to rectilinear progression; the perpetually varied begets uniformity. The Life of the Spider Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles. Timaeus The leaflets, therefore, begin to descend in the afternoon by zigzag lines, but as soon as the descent becomes rapid their whole energy is expended in thus moving, and their course becomes rectilinear. The Power of Movement in Plants Newton constructed such a diagram, and, measuring the amount of the moon's departure from a tangential rectilinear course in one minute, determined this to be, by his calculation, thirteen feet. A History of Science — Volume 2 The white, rectilinear ribbon of roadway was spotted with approaching groups that on the horizon line looked like a file of ants. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse It then took the food in its fingers, and, with lowered or rectilinear eyebrows, scratched, smelt, and examined it,— an expression of reflection being thus exhibited. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals It seemed to Newton possible that it might extend as far as the moon, and be the force that deflects her from a rectilinear path, and makes her revolve in her orbit round the earth. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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