Insect artizans and their work . nothing ofMaraldis measurements. Konig employed the in-finitesimal calculus, and found that the greatangles of the rhombs should be 1090 26 and thesmall angles 700 34. Here was a surprising agree-ment between theory and practice ! There for a time the matter -rested, and thenMaclaurin, the Scots mathematician, took a turnat the problem propounded to Konig by result he arrived at agreed precisely with themeasurements of Maraldi; and it was then endea-voured to discover how Konig had made the mis-take. It was found that the book of logarithmshe had us
Insect artizans and their work . nothing ofMaraldis measurements. Konig employed the in-finitesimal calculus, and found that the greatangles of the rhombs should be 1090 26 and thesmall angles 700 34. Here was a surprising agree-ment between theory and practice ! There for a time the matter -rested, and thenMaclaurin, the Scots mathematician, took a turnat the problem propounded to Konig by result he arrived at agreed precisely with themeasurements of Maraldi; and it was then endea-voured to discover how Konig had made the mis-take. It was found that the book of logarithmshe had used as the basis for his calculations con-tained an error which accounted for that differenceof 2 in his results. So the bees led to the cor-rection of the book of logarithms, whose errormight have led in other directions to lamentableresults. The comb is not built upwards from the basebut downwards from the roof. A small quantityof wax is deposited by one bee, to which others addin succession until sufficient is amassed for the.
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