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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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rO pure A rebra only. AS EO WhiCM DeS- CartS
hach added bur one sinole Rple (End even chius
is plainty deducible trom ParriortS Principles)
over and abore whacis in CTarriors; and chaL sis,
ehe Mechod ot dissolvins a Biquadrarick lguati
on, Whole 2d Ferm is wancine, into rvo dua-
dracicks, by means oF a CubICK Fquarion ot 2
3. Fiuxions5 2 laree Accoune of irtrich sou
wils hare under chat Word.
And che sereral Operations of Aigebra, Tuch a3
aadirion, Substraction, Mulciplicarion, Division
Txtraction os ROES, Fractions. Equations, XC.
Vou will sind Directions hoir co pertorm under
Ehiole several NVOrcs.
AECFHEB, a sxd Scar OF the Second Magni
Plain LOE, aie Ct AHeL L OC. Pombelland cude in ihe rishe side or Perseus, Wvhiole Longirude
15 99 dez. 7y min. Latirndo 30. 3. Kiphe A(Cen
(IOn 44 dec. LE min.
ALGOI, Or aledusa SFsesd, 2 fX d Star OFilC
chird Magnieude, in che Constellation Perseus
Whole Lonsicude 15 51. 37. LacEHdC 22. 22. and
Declinarion, 39. 39.
ALGORITHM, Comerimes called Locistica
Numeratis, is the Summ oF che Principal Rules ot
Numeral Compuracion; ot Wwhich chey commoni
ly reckon Live, Numeration, addition. Substracti-
on Mulciplication and Division; eo wrhich may
be acded Ftraction of Roots.
ALGORISMI, is the Proctical Operarion inthO
several Parrs oE. Specious Arithmetick Or Algebra;
and lomerimes ché Word is uled for the Practice
ot Common Arichmerick by che Ten Numerat
Figures.
ALTDADA, che Label or Ruler vihich is
moreable on che Centre oF an AArolabe Oua-
drant, C9c. Which carries the SigHE. TE iS (O CaI-
led by che srabian Wrirers oE Machemaricks,
trom whom ve tool and rerain several Arabiete
Terms, as AZimuth, Zenith, Nadir, Almacan-
ter, _c.
ALIEN, 2 Subject bOrn in a Foreign COUHErY
wtio (By oue Common L~W) is noc capable to in.
heric Lands in F.neland cill Nacuralix d by ACtOF
Partiament.
ALLENATION, is (in L. aW) eo matce a chine
anocher Man S, OP TO aITer OF DuT che POssesion
ot Lands or ether thines Erom ore Man eO ano-
cher; and in Poine Cales a Man hach porver in
ot aby ocher, and in POImC nOE.
ALIEDALMES MOSCDEL. Mlares, Preryeoi
des, are Muscles arisins trom che Prerygoide
Bones (the Procels oF che Os Cuneiforme, parrI
trirh a Pservous beginnine, and parcly Rethy
and ending in che Neck ot che lovver sa, and
comards che Inrernal SeacoF che Flead.
ALIEORMES PROCESSIS, are che Promi
nences oF ihe Os Cunciforme, From che FOre POTE;
the same with che eterreoides.
ALIMENT, is iohacever serres eo nourist
supply che Decays o5, and ro recruir an Animat
Or Vegerable Body
ALLMONY, formeriy honihied Nouristiment
Or Maintenance, bur in a Modern LeBal Sence.
it is thac Porrion or Allovance whrich a Married
Noman sues for, upon any occational Separarion
trom her Husband, Wvherein Me is nor charsec
rab. C. in che Spixirual Courr, bur now only in
Chancery.
ALLOOOL FAKL OF 2 Number, is such an
IBa1HdCI. BUE 2n
tis nas nor Harriores Bulinele, nno hepe hinsles
Vieta had done becore him. And chus learine
ehis French Plagiary, L come RCXE eo anocher ot
Our Connery A sebrilts, O. Peu, Wono reviled
and altered a Piece ot sebra hrit pubsisted in
LBB Dutch, A. D. 1659 al Lurich; ard afrer
Trahllared into Englist by MII. Lhomas Brancker
and Frinced . D, 1668, and called, un Mmero
auction to Alcebra: In wtrich . LcM sIrCS US 2
fcaliar Mechod ot hisomntor ap Alrebrare
rrems ot divers Porrs; and Mntoduced the war
Ot keepins a Resister oE che wlnte Procels in rhe
MargIM. IIC Mevs us al(o chere hon 10 judee
Whecher a Problem be Fully decermitee Ot HOL
evhlen is by ehis Rule (25 DT. Wallis intexPretS
him). If the Number ot the Dald, o thines siven
Ei any Question, be (indepenet os each otber,
eer than the thines souxhe, ehe ustro is ho
fullus determined, but is capabi s inumerable An
svers or Solutions.
Duc is the Number of both Dara and Ma HCa D
ih same, then the Question is then delermnea te
cither son bne, or to some cerun tumber of Solu
And irhen che Data are more in NTuivet CHaL
che Ouesita, (0 many as exceed arc alvazs lavet.
Auous, and lometimes, ic may be, alc Comtat
co, or inconsittent wirh orhers, an conlequenl)
rener the chins imposible.
Or. Pell al(0, belides che former Characters
ineroduced ehis MarIC O For Involution, and rhis ud
For Lvolurion, 25 he callS ir; i. e. For Squaring.
Cubing. ecc. ot any Ouancies, and For Exrractine
cy. Fle makes also ehis Marie 10 cand 10L B.
vision, and Registers ihe leveral Sceps ot the
Wrhole Procels by che Numeral Pigures in cheu
order in the lirele Column in themidele; keep.
ins an ACconnE also in Symbols ot the severas
Operations in che Column ioards che Let a
char lo vou may sec hou any Ouancicy or Lqua-
cion inche laree Column rom ards che REIsHC. Mane
 produced. In waich very 500d Meco De il
toS.
the Sguare, Cube, _C. RoOrS oue of any Ouanei hinrselEro do (0, Wirhour rhe ARenE or Licence
Followed by Ward in his lmall Treacise ot A
sebra–
Alsebra is Well enough divided into
.Numerat er Vulgar; Which was chac o
the Ancienes, and served only eo find che Solu.
tion oE Arichmerical Problems virtout any De-
monutattom: Such as those sivett s ) p
tus, _C.
Specious or Nem, called Comerimes Logistica
Speciosa, and otren species alone; wrhieti since wich Flovement OF AdulTerr. This WaS ReCOVC.
Vieta hath been performed by the Letrers oF che
Alphabet. And ehis vay oF Nocarion is very
plealins co the Mind, assistins eo che Imaginaci
On, and eahie eo rhe MemOrY. This alio is no one as will exaAly measure ic withour any Re
ays limired, like che former alcebra to any one
certain kind of Problems, bur serves equally For
che Investisarion and Demonstrarion ot aII Theo
semo; elpectallus it 20 Mhose vuo nonadu
Mectodo ot
ALIOVACC Lane, I Chac Which cannot
Beature anf Lusibet C FaMr. buc thar some Re-
Matetet Wss De seil. Thus 3 is an Aliquoe
parc oF 12, becaule being calien seue cnnes il
wil.