The lost solar system of the ancients discovered (1856)
Wilson, John, writer in astronomy · London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts · leaf 113
The apex of the pyramid or obelisk is placed in the centreof the planet or sun towards which the body falls. Fig. 47. Let 10 be the side of the central or angularsquare of a rectangular hyperbolic area. Then axis will =102 = 100, and ordinate of extreme axis, or asymptote, will= unity. The… … jj of IflO Fig. 47. This hyperbolic area has 2 asymptotes, one of which isdivided into 1, \, ^, ±, J-, -^ of 100 ; the other is divided into1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 units.The ordinates corresponding to these distances from thecentre will be J-fo, J-fa, ±%±, &c. to…
Building -- History · Pyramids -- Curiosa and miscellany · Sepulchral monuments
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