Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 351
now desirous of dheetingyour attention: the subject is termed the Composition of 70 PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT FoECES. Here is a block of wood, ■with two strings, as youruay perceive, affixed to it: do you take hold of one of thesestrings, Louisa; and you, Tom, of the other. That is right.Now place the… … See! said Mr. Seymour, the block obeys neither of thestrings, but picks out for itself a path which is intermediate.Can you tell me, Tom, the exact direction which it takes ? If we consider this table as a parallelogram, I should say,that the block described the diagonal. WeU said, my boy; the…
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