# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0069 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0069?run=74 # Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71) # Folio - , page id 806933011:0069 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=69 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000069.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 121 lines, status machine # Lines: 121 recognised, mean confidence 0.88 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Segmene ob d which is greater Fhan a Semi-crrele; by che Flankins. Line and rhe Currain. is Houte; For the Angle a of ihe Ouadrilareral Fi- sure oa db inscribed in a Circle beins Obruse, must nceds be an scute one, since rhie Sun O bocn is buE 2 L5. (by 22, 03. Fuclid.) Fence may be dravn ehis Problem For the BII. lection ot any Angle or Ark oF a Circle; suppose the AnelC CDF, or THC ArK C F FF A= C D C, then araW F, ana chac MalI bit lect ihe Ark CF, OP the Angle CDF: FOF +H AnSlC F F A (= CDF) is double (becaule an Angle ac che Center) 10 FDA an Anste at che Cireum ference. ANGLEFLANKD, by Tome called, the Anele ot ihe Bastion, in Forritication, is tHAE Wrhich is miade by the cvo faces; beins chie uc- most pare ot ehe Baltion most exposed 1o rhe Fi nemies Barteries, and ctieretore by Pome is called the Point of ihe Bastion. ANGLE formine the Plank; is chac rticti consists oF one Flant and one Demi-C7 orge. ANOLE formins ihe Face, in Porritication, is thac wrhich is composed by one Flanke and onc FacC. ANGLE OETNTCIDEHTCE: Sec Incidence. ANOLE os inclination in Opticks: Sec. Icli- nation. ANGLE OF NNCLTHATION ot chie aris oF ehie Farch tothe Axis oF iie Feliprick i5 23. 39 and remains inviolably che same in aII POInES OF che Farchs Annual Orbit MP. Reit in his Examinarion ot Burnet S Theory of the Farth, hath Mevn the erear Wisdom ot God in thus placins the Axis oF the RarthOb. liguely to che Plane oF ehe Feliprick; For by that means aH chose who live berond 450. OF L a ricude, have more ot the sun stleat, cake all Mhe Veat round; and chole who live wichin 45 ANCLE of or at the Center, in Forrificarion, have lels chan il che Farth moved alays in the is char irhich is made by the Concourse ot rvo Equinoctial; p. 69, Csc. And Besides; ris che Lines drain from the Angles ot chie Figure. ANVOLE at the Circumference of a Cirele, is ar Anste made by ans uno Chords nhict meci chere in a Point ANGL F of the Circumserence, in Forrification is the mix d Angle made by che Arch wotich is dravn trom one Gorge to another. ANGLE os ihe Counterscarp, is made by che uo Sides ot che Councerscarx meerins betore che midale ot the Currain ANOLE os the Currain, ox Anele of the Flank is thac which is made by or contained betveen Oblique Polirion chat causes all our diversicies ot Sealons, and difterent Deprees oE Hicac and Cote. ANGLE OE LONOTTODE, is the Angle Which che Circle ot a Scars Longitude makerti wich che Meridian at the Pole oF the Feliprick. ANOLE of the Meridian and Fcliprick, Foud chus; AS Rad. : T, OF che SunS BFCAFERE Declinarion: : (0 is the Co. sine ot his Longitude Or Dittance From Aries ro che C0. langene ol the Angle COugHE. ANGLE of the Meridian mith ehe Torizon, is che Curtain and che Flank in ans Piece ot Forri. chus Found: AS the C0. line oF Cs Declinarion is fication. ther. 10 Rad:: (0 is the C0.- sine oF the Elerarion ot etie squinoctial r0 che sine DE che angle re- quir d. ANGLE of ihe Moat, in Forrisicarion, is rhac wtich is made betore che Currain, where ic is in- xerlected. ANGLE of the Parallaa: dec Paralla. ANOLE of ibe Interval of tuo Places, is the angle made by che Lines directed trom che Eye corhose Places. ANGLF os the Suns Position, is etie anele made by che Incerlection of che Ark of ehe Meri- ocher Bceat Circle cucrins chrouen che Body oF the Suno ANGLE OE REFLFCLION: Sec Reste ction. ANCLE OL RLFLPCHOH: Sec ilso inoii dence– ANCTE OL RETRACTIOH: See Ressa Etion. ANOLE Refracted in Opticls, is che Anp le BC. cueen ehe Ketracted Rax and che Perpendi- Cular. ANGLE AE. FNLKINO, or Re enerant Anele– in Forrisication, is chac which rerires invard 10 5. Aud conlequemtus ihe Anele b made in IHC) NRCLE Mantone inva d is ne auee made For taking E A= tO D F, On ThC CenFeF F make the AFK F A= C F Or D, and che Angle ANBLE os ehe Compliment os he Line of DC fence, is ihe Ansle proceedins trom the Inter section ot che ruo Complemenes one wirh ano ANGLE DTMILITSEIFD, in Porritica hac wilch is made by the MCClH oF che outer Bast TOn mot L0eor dl e face oF chi ANGLE of ehe Fcliprick mith IBC DeCa Circle, or a5 Lome call ic, Parmaciick Lle, chus Lound; as che Pangene l Os distance Dectulation l ihe Consine ol ihe P’arallacticke nele RNGLE OTEVECTION: Sec Fvection. ANOLE oF the Lxterior Ficure, Ox ThC Anele of the Polyeon, is thac which is Formed ac che Point olhe Bastion, by che meering ot HC EWO OUTer. most Sides o: Bales of che Polycon ANOTB of the Interior Figure, in Porcificarion, is thac ertrich is made in the Center ot rhe Bacti- u bs che meerins ot he innecmou s et ilic Pigure ANCLE FLANIEINO, is chac wtich is mad by che mecrine oF the cwo Rasant Lines OF L ine d. lie Mo racee et inc ntnt. Bo. suiacae ruce vlhe. trom Aries is to Read:: (0 is che Tangene _ his dian Linc, Wich an drk oF an Azimuth, Or ane ttlBtt