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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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THC PR F F AC. P.
AS t0 PBysictis and Natural Philosophy, and chole admirable Helpstoche
Understandins oF Nacure, Wrhich Geometry applicd eo Physical Enguiries,
hath ot lace afforded us, and co which indeed we are chiehty indebred to
chac Prodigious Mathemarician Mr. JsaaC Nemton. Phave endearoured
co sire you every where cheMarro and Substance ol ic under Proper
Heads: And underche Permet Ar or Word expressins any parricu.
lar Ouality. L have collected all l could meer ich eo explain ic, and r0
clear up ies Nacure and Propercies; 25 vou will find ac large under luch
Words as Electriciey, Soliditi, Flasticity, Fssuviums, Magnecism, Liebe and
Colours, _c. ASto which las lm Porry Lhad cime torakre no more trom
MIT. Nemtons Fxcellene B00k ot Opticks lacely published; bur whac L
could, Phave inserred, as lhad betore done the Substance ot wvhac he
had published in che Philosophical Transactions, on chac most Noble Sub.
jecc; and which convinces us chac e iere all mistaken in our No-
tions aboue ic belore, lor ane ot proccedins in 2 righe Method o
Enquiry.
The Phaenomena Of che Rain-boW Or tris, are here accounted For trom
the Learned and Ingenious C APC. FTalley, nou Savilian Professor ol Cco.
meery in OxOn.
The ACCOnnE OF Snom I sire you trom Dr. Crem: And one oF Kce
trom che French.
Lhare Collecred ihac lcould meet ich 25 co Sound; buc l Wistr ChRE
Oualicy vere a licele becter considered.
Xou have here a very uII AccounE oF aIl che Phaenomena and Proper-
ries ot che dir and Amosphere, 25 ies Cravity, Sprins or Flasticity, _c. and a
tull Delcription ol, and che Use ot such Instrumenes as have been invenced
coenable usto judge olchem; as che Darometer. Thermemeter, Flygrome-
ter, Xcc. all wrhich is chieAy Erom che Hlonourable Mr. Boyle and the Phi-
losophical Transactions.
The AccOunE OF Springs and Fountains, is trOm CaPE. Falley, and
Dr. Noodward: And trom the Former of chele Learned and lnoc.
nious Genelemen, I hare siren vou a ne Theory oF Tides, Or 2
Solurion oF che Phanomena ot the Fbbing and Flomine of the Sea, which
is very plain, cerrain and incelligible, and buile on HIT. NemtonS
Principles.
In Botany Phare been as larse as lcould be, withoue givine Delerip.
tions of Planrs, wtich is concrary comy Delion: Buc vou hare here
TrOM OUT HIT. Ray, Morison, and Monsieur Tournefort, I beliere, 2 Prer
ex exaet Bocanick Lexicon, which ivas whac ve really wanced betore:
Logecher wich an Accoune of all che several Kinds, and Subalternate Spe-
cies oF Plants, and cheir Specifick Differences; in which l have Colloved
ut. Paio Mechod, hd aepentius 10 me 10 be che bel and mole Ba.
MTal.
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