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The gatehouse at Hever Castle contains a frightening collection of torture instruments, including axes used for beheading prisoners.

The gatehouse at Hever Castle contains a frightening collection of torture instruments, including axes used for beheading prisoners.

The gatehouse at Hever Castle contains a frightening collection of torture instruments, including axes used for beheading prisoners.

A number of villagers were hacked to death with axes and machetes by the guerrillas.

A number of villagers were hacked to death with axes and machetes by the guerrillas.

In the Catadioptric lenses the light emerges at right angles from its entering direction, being reflected from a surface cut at an angle of 45 degrees to the axes of the curved surfaces.

It will, however, be evident that if any object-glass is but made achromatic, with its lenses truly worked and cemented, so that their axes coincide, it may with certainty be connected with another possessing the same requisites and of suitable focus, so that the combination shall be free from spherical error also in the centre of its field.

There will not be a work on astronomy published in Europe or the United States this year, or hereafter, that will not state that "Mercury and Venus revolve on their axes in the same time that they revolve around the sun," which is another way of saying that "they have no axial rotation, always presenting the same face to the sun," and an inaccurate way of presenting the truth.

At nine days after sunrise the craters are exactly alike in size and shape, both now being elliptical, with their major axes lying in a nearly N.

It is curious that these four outer planets, that resemble each other so strikingly in many of their conditions-in their vast size, high albedo, low density, and vaporous envelopes, that show, in their spectra, not merely the lines of reflected sunlight, but also special lines due to their own atmospheres (the chief of these being common to all the four planets)-should yet, in the inclination of their axes to the plane of their orbits, display every possible variety.

The axes of Saturn and Neptune have a mean inclination, but it would appear that the rotation of Neptune is in the reverse direction to that of planets in general, so that the true inclination is usually taken as being the complement of the observed angle, as[Pg 142] if the axis were turned right over.

Now we find that in sound and perfect eyes, when the axes of both are directed to one point, an object placed in that point is seen single; and in this case, the two pictures which show the object single, are painted on the centres of the retinas.

Other objects at the same distance from the eyes, as that to which their axes are directed, do also appear single: and in this case, it is evident to those who understand the principles of optics, that the pictures of an object to which the eyes are not directed, but which is at the same distance as that to which they are directed, fall both on the same side of the centre, that is, both to the right, or both to the left, and both at the same distance from the centre.

An object which is much nearer, or much more distant from the eyes, than that to which their axes are directed, appears double.

Cheselden's young man had never seen at all before he was couched, and the other three had never been accustomed to direct the axes of both eyes to the same point.

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