Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 360
ter off in a straight fine from the center. You are not quite correct, said Mr. Seymour; thewater does not fly off in a right line from the center, but in * A more striking but fearful exemplification of this principle has beenlately exhibited in London under the name of the Cbntkipuqal Railway,in… … MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST. 79 a right liiie in tlie direction in which it was moving at theinstant of its release ; the line which a body will always de-scribe under such circumstances, is called a tangent^ becauseit totiches the circumference of the circle, and forms a rightangle with a Une drawn…
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