 | 1801 - 658 str.
...and was effected by means of the continual bisection of an arc of a circle, which was so exceedingly "troublesome and laborious, that it must have cost...curious a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tomb stone, in Si. Peter's church yard at Leydcn. This last number was not only confirmed, but extended... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 str.
...j4d$criptis, by the same means carried the ratio to 36 places of figures; this v»as thought so extraordii)ary a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter,s church-yard, at Lei/den. These numbers were afterwards confirmed by WilleIrord Suell. Mr. Abraham... | |
 | William Hawney - 1820 - 336 str.
...adscriptis, by the same means carried the ratio to 36 places of figures ; this was thought so extraordinary a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tombstone in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. These numbers were afterwards confirmed by Willebrord Snell. Mr. Abraham Sharp, of Little "Horton,... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1829 - 256 str.
...base of a cone is a circle ; what is its diameter when the circumference is 54 feet ? Ans. 20.3718. extremely troublesome and laborious that it must have...that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peters Church-yard, at Leyden. This last number has since been confirmed and extended to double the... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1833 - 310 str.
...base of a cone is a circle ; what is its diameter when the circumference is 54 feet? Ans. 20.3718. troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him...cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's Church-yard, at Leydcn. This last number has since been confirmed and extended to douUe the number of places, by the... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1835 - 308 str.
...cone is a circle ; what is its diameter when the circumference is 54 feet? Ans. 20.3718. troviblcsornc and laborious that it must have cost him incredible...invention of Fluxions, and the Summation of Infinite Scries, there have been several methods discovered for doing the same tiling with much more case and... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1842 - 318 str.
...base of a cone is a circle ; what is its diameter when the circumference is 54 feet? Ans. 20.3718. troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him...and extended to double the number of places, by the l3te ingenious Mr. Abraham Sharp, of Little Horton, near Bedford, in Yorkshire. But since the invention... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1849 - 388 str.
...degree of exactness, which he extended to thirty-six places of decimals;* and ft was effected by * This is said to have been thought so curious a performance,...tombstone, in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. means of the continual bisection of an arc of a circle. This process was exceedingly troublesome and... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 372 str.
...of exactness, which he extended to thirty-six places of decimals ; * and it was effected by * This is said to have been thought so curious a performance,...tombstone, in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. means of the continual bisection of an arc of a circle. This process was exceedingly troublesome and... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 374 str.
...of exactness, which lie extended to thirty-six places of decimals ; * and it was effected by * This is said to have been thought so curious a performance, that the -iliers were cut on his tombstone, in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. means of the continual bisection... | |
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... troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him incredible pains. It is said to have been thought so curious a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's Church-yard at Leyden. 
