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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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Lilly Or
eth. POInE Z
vards che
B) Wich means che Man ac Felm, Or Sceert
tnons holo l0 keep che Ship eo her Course.
eroposirion
Paraltesopram ehe Complemenes C and
AIC Cquat. LOr ZF C. F. O = R + M +
nakine up on cach side the erear Triangle
made = by the Diaxonal; oF which Z= R anc
D=X (because che Diaxonal makes ihem 10)
nheretore che remainins Patallesosram CF M
F. D.
COMELEX Terms, in LoBick, are such 25 are
compounded oE cimple ox sppe ones; votiichi chier
This Instrumene, choueh ic be subject eo Acci. Call Incomplex Terms.
denrs, and elvays co Variarion, is yet ot vast use
COMPLEK Or Complicated Discases: Sec Com
in Navisation; as also in surverine, Dialline, and plication.
mans ocher Paris ob h. Mathematicks.
The Learned Dr. Wallis conjectures, That the
COMPLEXOS, a Musele oEcheFleac, servirie
comore ic backards. Ie is allo called Trigemi-
Compass was invenced by an Enelist man, because num, because ic hach plainly a chree. Fold beginnins.
e woid compass is uled in maty paresot Linelanci
EOr a Circle.
COMPASS Dials, are small ores sitced in
and scems ro be compounded ot 3 Muscles; one
hon eo place them righe by curnine che Dial a-
Bour eill the Cock or Seile Aand directly over che
Ncedle, and poine up co the Norchward; buc
COMPASSFS op Proporrion, is an InstrumenEtO
divide Lines and Circles into proporrional Parrs ac
bepinmine is trom the cransverle Processes oF che
Fourth and AEch Vertebrae oF the ThOrAZ: The SC:
cond from the sirst and second ot thole Vertebrae;
Bares for the Pocker, and Bems the PTour oF che
Day by che Direction ot che Necdle; Which hews
ehele can never bevery exact, because ot che Va-
riation ot the Nccdle ir selF.
and the Third trom che Spine et che ,eh Vertebra
oF che Neck: Atcer, in cheir ascene, chey all unite
xopether, and are inserred into the Occiput
Comerimes by one and somerimes by a chreetole
Tendon.
COMPLICATTON os Diseases, is when divers
Distempers scize on the Body at che lame rime,
especially it chey depend one uxon anocher.
COMPOSTIA Or Compound Medicines, are MC
one openins ot che Compasses, and is very much dicines made ux os any dimple Medicines; ascer
uled in redueins or inlarginq ot Maps Or Drauphs.
The French somerimes call a Sector by chis Name
che Compass os Proportion.
COMPERTORIOM 2 Fudiciat Inquest in che
Civil. Lawr, made by Delesares or Commiloners
to find our or relare rhe Pruth ot a Cause.
COMPLEMFNT, OE any Ark oF 2Circle, Or
rain Wacers, Syrurs, Electuaries, Opiares, IrO.
chistis, Oimrmenes, Plasers, (90
COMPOSPTE Order, in Archirecturo, Wtich is
2ls0 called stalick and Roman, becaule it was che
Invention et che ancient Romans, is so called.
because ic is composed ot elie orher tour Orders,
vix. Fuscan, Porick Tonick, and Corinthian; EHF
OE any Ansle, is whac ic wanis oC 2 Guadranr, tirst is composed orls oE phe toniet and Corinchian.
O5 900.
GOIPLEMENT os ebe Course, in Ravigation,
3t rhe Number oF Poines che Course wants of 90
COMPOSITIOH, in Paincins, is used in he
lame sense ich invention or Desien: See Desien.
There is alsoa cerrain Method ot Demonstrariori
Digrees, or eixhe Poines, viz. Ot a Duarter of che in Marhemaricks called by ehis Name oF
Compass.
COMPTEMENT of che Curtain, in Forcificati
CONeOSILION; Wtich is ,he Beverse ot chC
Analyrical Merhod or OF Resolurion: IE Proceeds
on, is char parr ot rhe Curtain Which (beins mane- uxon Principles in themlelres sel evident, on De
inz) is che Demigoree.
finitions, Postulations, and axions, and a previ-
COMELEMENT of ihe Line of Desenco, io the oussy demonstrared series of Proposirions, Aep by
remainder et che Line of Desence atcer you have Rex, rill ir eire rou 2 clear knomle dee oF chephine
ratien away che Ansle oE rhe Flant.
o bc demonttrared. This is whac cher call ctie
Syntherical Merhod, and is uled by Euclid in his
COMDZKIENVTS in a Paralleloeram, are the Flements.
tuo lesset Parallelorrams Cand M, wtict are
made by ocamins qo Riphe Lines II ro eact
GOMPOSITTON os procion, is che Compotici-
on oE ihe several Dircetions or Declivicies oF Mo-
sise or che Fisure, chroush Z Biyen Poinc in rhe cion, wherher equable or unequable.
2d1oxoval.
IE any Poine be sypposed 1o more or Ao (tor
this Speculscion eives in Vlustracian pE ehie D0.
ctrine of Fluxions) recordins eo one and rtre same
Direction; Whecher ir more equably oxnoE, whe
her