A Popular Guide to the Terms of Art and Science

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J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1879 - 227 pages
"The object of this little work is to enable a non-professional or non-scientific person readily to accomplish two things - to find the technical terms used in the arts and sciences by merely knowing the popular words relating thereto, and to translate into popular language technical terms which he may meet with but not understand."--Page 3
 

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Page 30 - Among merchants it is a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. BILL OF ENTRY. — A written account of goods entered at the Custom-house, whether imported or intended for exportation. BILL OF EXCHANGE. — A written order or request from one person to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein named.
Page 65 - Colures are two great circles, imagined to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world : one...
Page 132 - It is perfectly defined, as an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their negative colors, on a white surface placed on the focus of the glass within a darkened chamber.
Page 225 - In three parts. By Rev. JOHN NEELY. Fourth edition, carefully revised. 16mo. Boards. 15 cents. f Turner on Punctuation. A Hand-Book of Punctuation, containing the More Important Rules, and an Exposition of the Principles upon which they depend. By JOSEPH A. TURNER, MD New, revised edition. i6mo.
Page 56 - DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.
Page 77 - A preclusion in law which prevents a man from alleging or denying a fact in consequence of his own previous act, allegation, or denial of a contrary tenor.

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