Sentence examples for mathematical instruments from inspiring English sources

Later, Fox confided in the writer, saying that Healy had pawned old mathematical instruments he had lent to him.

Concepts and results from Greco-Islamic spherical trigonometry, astronomical tables, and mathematical instruments thus found their way into Sanskrit jyotisa.

A clockmaker by trade, Rittenhouse built mathematical instruments and, it is believed, the first telescope in the United States.

Returning to Glasgow, he opened a shop in 1757 at the university and made mathematical instruments (e.g., quadrants, compasses, scales).

Keuffel & Esser was known for its slide rules and other mathematical instruments, and requested that the architectural firm De Lemos & Cordes design its 1893 headquarters with images of a compass, triangle, pliers and mallet in the frieze.

Commissioned in the late 15th century by the Duke of Urbino, it is fitted with trompe l'oeil furniture and cupboards whose open doors reveal objects that tell the patron's life story: items like armor, books, and musical and mathematical instruments.

It is shown that the suggested method provides a powerful mathematical instrument for solving nonlinear equations in the science of mathematics, physics and engineering.

The heaviest sufferers among the manufacturers are the GURLEYS, mathematical instrument makers, and SHELDON & GREENE, stove founders.

Integraph, mathematical instrument for plotting the integral of a graphically defined function.

Smeaton learned mathematical instrument making in London, where his scientific papers led to his election to the Royal Society in 1753.

Planimeter, mathematical instrument for directly measuring the area bounded by an irregular curve, and hence the value of a definite integral.