Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656104024
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Excerpt from Knowledge, 1901, Vol. 24: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Literature and Art This assumes that the draught of the ship in the trough of the waves is constant, and equal to the draught, in smooth water, which, however, is not the case. Lieut. Paris may either have overlooked the fact or may have decided to neglect the correction. There are various means of checking these measurements of waves' which were applied when circumstances permitted, and when practice had been attained Lieut. Paris reckoned 'his measurements to be good to about 10 per cent, one tenth part of the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
