Showing posts with label circular element. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circular element. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2015

The Suggestion That Primitive Eden Was at the Arctic Pole Seems at First Sight the Most Incredible of All Wild and Willful Paradoxes (1885)

William F. Warren, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; A Study of the Prehistoric World (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885), frontispiece.

Friday, August 31, 2012

God Supporting the World (1900)

Paul Caras. The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1900).

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Periodic Spiral of the Elements (1919)

Periodic Spiral of the Elements
Ingo W. D. Hackh. "The Classification of the Chemical Elements." Scientific American Supplement. 87 (March 8, 1919).

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Golden Wheel (1909)

The Golden Wheel
Grand Orient.  A Manual of Cartomancy, Fortune-Telling, and Occult Divination Including the Oracle of Human Destiny, Cagliostro's Mystic Alphabet of the Magi, The Golden Wheel of Fortune, The art of Invoking Spirits in the Crystal, The Various Methods of Divination. (London: William Rider and Son, 1909).

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Cuauhxicalli of Tizoc (1887)

Sacrificial Stone
Randolph L.Geare, “Mexican Antiquities,” The Popular Science Monthly 31 (May 1887): 81.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Windmill (1871)

Windmill
J.B. Primus. "Windmill." The English Mechanic and World of Science. 13 (June 16, 1871).

Sunday, August 26, 2012

In a Given Circle (1871)

In a given circle to inscribe a regular hexagon or figure of six equal sides Let 0 be the centre fig 83
Edward Wyndham Tarn. Practical Geometry for the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor and Mechanic. (London: Lockwood and Company, 1871).

Saturday, August 25, 2012

On the Law of Storms (1879)

on referring to figure p 139 it will be seen that at all places over which the right hand half of the storm passes the wind veers with the sun or from east to south or from left to right of the observer while at all places under the influence of the left hand semicircle of the storm the wind veers in the contrary direction or against the sun and this will be the case in whatever direction the storm may be travelling and in whichever way it may be rotating so that in the storms of the Indian Ocean or in storms of the southern hemisphere although rotating the contrary way to this a veering of the wind from the right to the left of the observer will equally indicate that he is at the left side of the storm and vice versa although in that hemisphere the expressions with the sun and against the sun will have their meaning reversed
James Greenwood. The Sailor's Seabook: A Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation. (London: Crosby, Lockwood, and Company, 1879).

Friday, August 24, 2012

Direct & Retrograde Motion (1844)

Direct & Retrograde Motion
Elijah Hinsdale Burritt. "Direct and Retrograde Motion." The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas. (New York: Huntington and Savage, 1844).

Paddle-Wheel Slip and Path (1891)

John Maxton. The Workman's Manual of Engineering Drawing. 7th ed.  (London: Crosby, Lockwood, and Son, 1891).

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Practical Papers on Harmony (1871)

Practical Papers on Harmony
E.J. Kibblewhite. The English Mechanic and World of Science 13 (March 21, 1874).

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Die Schöne Wulka (1922)

Die Schöne Wulka
Elizabeth Birchenal. Folk-Dances From Old Homelands.  (New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1922). 

Monday, August 20, 2012

The Moon's Phases (1849)

The Moon's Phases
Charles F. Blunt.  The Beauty of the Heavens: A Pictorial Display of the Astronomical Phenomena of the Universe. Exhibited in One Hundred and Four Scenes, Accompanying and Illustrating a Familiar Lecture on Astronomy. From Original Drawings, Paintings. and Observatory Studies 4th Edition.  (London: David Bogue, 1849).

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Alternating Influence Machine (1891)

Improved Wilmhurst Static Electrical Machine
"Improved Wilmhurst Static Electrical Machine." Scientific American. 64. (June 20, 1891).

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Lighthouse Illumination (1881)

Lighthouse Illumination
Thomas Stevenson. Lighthouse Construction and Illumination. (London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1881).

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Sacred Lodge-Arrow Ceremony (1905)

George A. Dorsey. Fieldlandia: The Cheyenne. Anthropological Series 9. (Chicago: Field Colombian Museum, 1905).

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Castle Walk & One-Step (1914)

Castle Walk and One Step: The Pomander
Albert W. Newman. Dances of To-Day: An Expert's Full Directions, With Illustrations and Diagrams, For Learning or Teaching the Tango, Hesitation, One-Step, Boston, Maxixe and All Other Modern Dances. (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1914).

Monday, August 13, 2012

Suitable for Rink Skating (1896)

Suitable for Rink Skating
Norcliffe G. Thompson and F. Laura Cannan. Hand-in-Hand Figure-Skating. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1986).

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Il nostro Sistema Planetario (1897)

Il nostro Sistema Planetario

Almanacco Italiano: Piccola Enciclopedia Popolare Della Vita Practica. (Florence: R. Bemporad & Figlio, 1897).