"Logarithm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scarcely a man in this class who has not heard of how Professor P222D29333Male accidentally stumbled upon the scientific fact that the effect of gravity is reversed upon any body which vibrates perpendicularly to the plane of the ecliptic with a frequency which is an even multiple of the logarithm of 2 of the Naperian base 'e.' At once, special vibrating cars were constructed which carried mankind to all planets. That discovery of Professor P222D29333Male did nothing less than open up seven new territories to our inhabitants; namely: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...
— John Jones's Dollar • Harry Stephen Keeler
... experiments. The following rule expresses the results obtained by Mr. Southern:—To the given temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit add 51.3 degrees; from the logarithm of the sum, subtract the logarithm of 135.767, which is 2.1327940; multiply the remainder by 5.13, and to the natural number answering to the sum, add the constant fraction .1, which will give the elastic force in inches of mercury. If the elastic force be known, ...
— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne
... the same purpose as that for which the watchmaker employs tools. If, before writing down his observation on a star, the astronomer has to separate from it all the errors resulting from atmospheric and optical laws, it is manifest that the refraction-tables, and logarithm-books, and formulae, which he successively uses, serve him much as retorts, and filters, and cupels serve the assayer who wishes to separate the pure gold ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer
... residual analyses are recorded in the lower left-hand corner: first the weight of the water absorbed from 10 liters of air passing through the meter; to the logarithm of this is added the logarithm of volume I; the result is the logarithm of the total weight of water-vapor in the ventilating air-current. To convert this into liters the logarithmic factor 09462[26] is added to the logarithm of the weight of water and (a) ...
— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict
... published when Newton was eighty-four years old! The moral of the above is, that a gentleman who prefers instructing William Herschel to learning how to spell, may find a proper niche in a proper place, for warning to others. It seems that gravitation is not truth, but only the logarithm of it. ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan |
