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University College, 1895
 

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Page xxxiii - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page xxxiii - BAC is cut off from the given circle ABC containing an angle equal to the given angle D : Which was to be done. PROP. XXXV. THEOR. If two straight lines within a circle cut one another, the rectangle contained by the segments of one of them is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the other.
Page iv - Fuisse apud eos et Herculem memorant, primumque omnium virorum fortium ituri in proelia canunt.
Page 51 - Acoustics. Sensation and external cause of Sound. Mode of its transmission. Nature of wave-motion in general. Application of the wave-theory to Sound. Elements of a musical sound. Loudness and extent of vibration. Pitch and rapidity of vibration. Measures of absolute, and of relative, pitch. Resonance. Analysis of compound sounds. Helmholtz's theory of musical quality. Motion of sounding...
Page xx - J'ai du bien, je suis jeune, et sors d'une maison Qui se peut dire noble avec quelque raison; Et je crois, par le rang que me donne ma race, Qu'il est fort peu d'emplois dont je ne sois en passe.
Page xli - Find the geometrical focus of a pencil of rays after direct refraction at a spherical surface.
Page xx - Je suis assez adroit ; j'ai bon air, bonne mine, Les dents belles surtout, et la taille fort fine. Quanta se mettre bien, je crois, sans me flatter, Qu'on serait mal venu de me le disputer. Je me vois dans l'estime autant qu'on y puisse être, Fort aimé du beau sexe, et bien auprès du maître. Je crois qu'avec cela, mon cher marquis, je croi Qu'on peut par tout pays être content de soi.
Page xxxiii - If a straight line drawn through the centre of a circle bisect a straight line in it which does not pass through the centre, it shall cut it at right angles : and if it cut it at right angles, it shall bisect it.
Page 51 - Loudness and extent of vibration. Pitch and rapidity of vibration. Measures of absolute, and of relative, pitch. Resonance. Analysis of compound sounds. Helmholtz's theory of musical quality. Motion of sounding strings. The pianoforte and other stringed instruments. Motion of sounding air-columns.
Page 13 - Royal charter, whereby the degrees which it confers are declared entitled to "rank, precedence, and consideration" throughout the British Empire " as fully as if the said degrees had been conferred by any university of the United Kingdom." It was apparently contemplated by Parliament (vide section 19 of the Act last quoted) that the New Zealand University and the Otago University should be amalgamated ; but the negotiations for this purpose having failed the two institutions remained for some time...

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