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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1813 Excerpt: ... Cyrene, the permanent appendage of Egypt, xi. 60. Cyrus, tomb of, vii. 496--the age of, a line of demarcation between known and unknown history, xi. 40. Cystic Oxyde, a new species of urinary calculusi xvii. 156--analy-sis of, by Dr Wollaston, 165, 166. Czartoryska, princess, her collection of curiosities, x. 441. D' Abreu, M. J. M., his translation of the Principes Mathematiques of M. Da Cunha, xx. 425--account of the author, ib--remarks on the present work, 426--sketch of its contents, ib. Da Cunha, Principes Mathematiques, xx. 425--doctrine of parallel lines, 427--properties of the circle, 428--doctrine of proportion, 429--arithmetic of powers, 430--roots of equations, 431--method of fluxions, 432--trigonometry, conic sections, &c. ib. Dactyl, in what places of a tragic senarius admissible, xix. 67. Daemon of superstition, sketch of, from Lucretius, x. 223--how ren-dered, by Mr Good, 224. Dagonet, Sir, in Arthur's Show, Mr Douce on that personage, xii, 455. Dahomi, in Africa, cruelty of its king, v. 226. Dairy-Farms, American, vii. 38. Dolby, Mr Isaac, his account of the trigonometrical survey of Eng-land and Wales, v. 372. Dalecarlia, adventure of Gustavus Vasa in, related by Mr Ker Porter, xiv. 184. Z)'Alemliert; striking portrait of his character, by Marmontel, vii 369--Dutens's account of his character, viii. 355--an improve-ment in the integral calculus made by, xi. 251--mechanical prin-ciple discovered by him concerning the motion of bodies, 253--his solution of the problem of the precession of equinoxes, "272--his opinion on a principle in the doctrine of impossible quantities not to be clearly ascertained, xii. 316--a remark of Voltaire on, xiv. 120--private character of, xv. 465--his letter to M. D'Ar-gens, refusing the presidency of the Berlin ...
