The British Palladium Volume 14; Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Year ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...which we cannot comply, as being unfit for the public Eye. For though all Compositions have but their several Degrees of Utility and Elegance, yet, as a Pilot, (having had seme Experience in Navigation, ) we would not run oar Correspondents ashore upon Low-Water Mark j nor yet upon the Rocks and Quicksands of the Shallows. Those Pretenders to mathematical Judgement and Criticism, endeavouring to make themselves considerable by finding Fault with superior Judgement, or celebrated Mathematician s Works, as not se fit for School-Boys and Learners as they could have performed them, should (like Newton's Critics) first study them, and learn to urd rstand those Works, before they assume superior Judgement. Otherwise, Watch-joinen, illiterate Pedants, Charity-ScbooUTtachers, KA tbe Work'rs in Brass and Steel, and those who cannot spell and write English, may, with equal Propriety, assume to be Critics in Literature and Science. ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN LAST YEAR'S PALLADIUM. it Question 375, answered by Mr. Thomas Robinson, of Biddich; Correcting the wrong Data, Shares; when each third Share would be 48 full and 96 empty, =-y----f, nd--, from above, agreeably to Caps. Wtoi'i Method. 3...-, N. B. Those Correspondents, who gave Variety of.Answers to the forei going Question, by different full, half full, arid enjpty CTaiki, .sithagintgg they had made a neiv Discovery, ), will find that each of their Answers, bring reduced to full and empty Calks, Will niake jtilt the fcOtie NUrhber of full and empty Calks, svfk. 35, ) as concisely given by Capt. Williams1, whose is the ihort aDd proper Way of answering these Questions, when they are possible.., Palladium Author, Th- Question win answered 'by Mr. W. Per, Chaisont, Mr. 7. H. of levies, Mt, Alexander Rm/e, (one solv...