# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0274 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0274?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 806933011:0274 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=274 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000274.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 139 lines, status machine # Lines: 139 recognised, mean confidence 0.89 # 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. The Mean Semi-diamerex oF the Farrt, is 29615800 Paris Feer, Or 3933 Miles (OF 5000 Fcet r0 a MIIIC.) Bur the Barth is trigher ac the Equaror, than at the Poles, by 85200 FceF, Ot 27 Miles. So chac che Radius oF che Parch may be caten in a round Number, 25200000000 Fecr. Thie Solid Content ot che Globe ot che whole Farrh, i5 30000000000000000000000 C ubict Fecr. Accordina 10 Mr. Cassini, ehe FarrHS ereatest Distance from theSun, i5 22374, mean Distance 22000, and leas Distance 8022 demi-diameter s ot che Farch. On Supposition charche Suns Parallax bc 32 SC- conds, Wrtich is a Mean between 40 Seconds and 24 Scconds, the Farchs Mean Distance From che Sun, Will be 54000000 OF MileS. Mr. Whiston. NIr. Nemton tates che Farihs Diametes, Pcem trom che sur, t0 be 24 Seconds, and consequent ly che Suns Parallax r0 bC r2 Scconds, Wvhich. a erces with our Accurare AAronOmer MP. Elam- stead, and FTorroxs Obserrations. And rhen che Distance tromche Farch ro the sun, will bemuch SreateF. The Figure oE oux Farch, is most probably char ot an Oblate Spheroid, (vellins out rovards che F. quarorial Paris, and Aacted or contracted rorards the Poles: Sothar the Diameter oF ir at the Pqua- For, is longer chanche Axis by abour 34 Miles, aC- cordins tO Mr. Nemton: For the Polar Diameter or AXiS, is to che Eguarorial, OnC, 25 689 10 692 IE ihe Farih Wete evet a Fluid State, ils RC volution round ies Axis must neceslarils malie it put on such a Figure; becaule near the Lquatorial Parrs must necds be thegrearest Cenritus al Force. and consequenty chere the Fluid voud rise and Civell most. Aid Thac it Mould be (0 non, sCems necessar co keepche Sea in the Equinoetial Regions Erom oversovins che Farch chereabonts. Eixpelmments allo made on Pendulums, which require different lenschsto swins Seconds here, anc ac the Fguatel, doprore chelame chins. And IF wrhat MI. Cassini CaYS IL CBHoCt Transactions, Numb 278. is cerrain trom Experi- ence, viz. Thar the Deorees oF one and the lame Meridian on che Faxth, encreale abOut, S ParE aS rou 50 Souchard, or are lonser rovards the F needs beof such a Fisure; a5 indeed is tharOF fu- The learned Dr. Cresory, in tiis astronomin metrica (d) Physica, Prop. 52. Lib. 3. Mews a Mc- thod to determine the Figure oF the Farrh exactlr and e0 find the Rario ot ine et let Lila Caprain Falley, in his Obserration oF Mereury in the Sum aE Sc. FTelena, : 677. Tells uS, Thac etre Annual Motion oF the Farrh is (0 exccedins surite 25 far to exceed rhat of a Buller Moc our oF a C di- non, andro be atter che Kate ol 3 Chss Wlles and an halt in a Second, which is 210 Miles in a Minure, and 12600 Miles in an LTOur. The Axis oE che Farch is inclined to chat of che Edliprick in an Ansle oE 66 Desrees 30 Mi And cho in one Anual Rerolution its Avis ap. pears to Heep exactls Patallel 10 it setF; vet in many Tears chis Polirion becomes sensibly chansed. Ores. Astron. Ehe Farchi dorte not describe an Orbir rounc the Sun property by her omn Centre, but by che Common C’entre of Gravity of the F arth and the Moon- And chis is the Reason ot the lnequalier ot rhe Farchs Morion. Gres. Astronom. The Farchs Florizontal ParallaX EO an LVC aE the suns surtace, will be 16 Minures, che halt oF the Suns apparene Dinmeter. Our most Accurate AAronomer, Hr. Flamstced, Found che Distance oF che Pole- Star trom chePole. to be greater about the summer Solstice, than ac etie Wincer, By abour 40 Or 45 Seconds; and chis he Caith, he contirmed by repeated Obserrations made For abore leven Lears successirely; as he ac. quains DF. WVallis in a Carin L ercer co him in che Zcar 1698, Wwhich L erter is publistred in che Phird Volume ot Dr. WVallis S Latine Workis. And since chac hehach cold me, Thac he finds a sensible An nual Parallax in ochers oE che Aixed Stars, 25 Wvell quator in any Proportion, then the Farch muct pirer, as appears trom Obserration. nutES. 25 chac; and from chence he concludes (I Think verys justIy) chac che Farch must more Annually round che Sun. ASEochekealon os ite Paralletibm ot ehe F’archs Axis in all paris cE irs Annual Orbir. Sec ihc Nord Parallelism. chan ic is in fune, and consequentls chat irs Peri- hetion is in the Month ot Occember, is plain- Firse, Becaule the Suns Apparent Diameter is then grearer Than ac Midsummer And also because the L’arch mores much svilcer then, by One 25Th ParF, Fan aE Miasummer And trom hence ir is, that there are about eighe Days more in che Summer half Pear trom March 20 September, chan in che Wincer Trom September 10 Mareh. tion luirs ne Chanomn OL NVature, Ede lame must Thatthe Farch is nearer 2o ehe Sun in December MIE. Trhiston in his Lemmata proves verr calilis Thac che Annual Morion belonss 10 the Farch 2 Bou e Su LBF cO the Sun abouc ehe RarTH. Cor whentrom che Moons Orbit, and the Planets Orbits and Periodical Times, ris cerrain, Thac MhG Lawr ot Gravicarion cormards ihe Farch, and 10 Watco Ct. C Sut Lo ene lame; and by consequence, corial Bamtelet. Lnd demonstrales, Lhac the Farchmuse d e e LGate mentioned, viz. all the Perioanat Limes ot Bodies revolring aboul cach ot Thets MMM lame PFOPOrtION 1O One anO- each ot cHet. On Wtrch Hypothesis, this PrOPOT. cher, compared wich cheir sererat Distances trom an Olate Spheroid. IIe Mews allo, Thar che Prolare Spheroidical LiguCOFche Farch, is che Realon boch ot che Re- cestion oF the liquinoctial Poinrs, and also, Thac the Farchs Axis doch rwice erery Tear chanse its Inclination ro che Fetiprick, and a5 olten return Dack 28am to irs former Posirion, astron. Pa5. 77. Lib. T. Pro The Farihs mean Reroluion in respect oF che De He eu MM, and ro be fully acquiesc d in. o lis o Laco the Liyporhesis ot Che Farchs Annual Morion, her Periodical Times exact. ly fuirs, and is s0 between chatof Mars and Venus, asthe Proporrion obserred chrough che wrhole sy- stem; buc on che orher Hypothesis, is Cou onchio thyporhesto, che dut hilo revolres aboncout Fixc Scats, is 23 Eours, 56 Minures. different: For ivhren che Hoon undoubredlr, an