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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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ment oE A, Or ot the scclatole A B, Wil bc
OF A3, WDC S A A = a BC-I ABC -I - AB
And in che likce manner il n reprelent che Index o
any POver OF A, che W  A, W V
EA AB and E, be all equal: and chonche n
a A = a B - A b, and FhC MOMIENE OF A B
i 
WhereLMew, Thac O) IBe Ooctrine ot
nitely smell TnCTCMEHES OF L
elle mes  ins su Assctens ot TucH
Nemion, Calls Very Properis bY chis Name OF FLuXI.
ons: FOr, as Indeterminate ana raMaBIC CMaTCI
ties, d2Z. ICI as II M CCMCLaCOSOL CMMIIIICdL
e are ro understand rhe Arichmetick oE che Infi
ReMMeHES OF In
minate ex variable Ouantities, Or 25 Tome call chem
rariable Ouancicies. These Infinicely Call Incre
MENES OF Decrements, our Incomparable MIF. IaaC
atet VHeL LISCICS, B) LDCat MOLIOM, alC CONFINU-
ally Increasins or Diministins, he righer Denomi-
nates, Flomine Ouantities: AS DCMB ACM aS are
Pespecttalls augmenced or lessen d by the FluX OF
MoOI a Linc, Sursace, _c. S0 he calls ehe
Celerity Or Velociry oF the Augmentation or Dimi-
HuIO OL These Llomins Ouantities, by che Name
OE Flurions. And because aII Figures may DC COn-
ceired ro be generared by Local Morion; 25 is
nom rels commoniy supposed amons Geometers:
Thelctere us much more Natural ro conceire che
IntinirelY (mall TnCFeMenES Ox Decrements OF the
variable and Flomine Ouantities, under the NTorion
OF Fluxions, chian under thac OF Moments Or Inf-
nicels mall Differences, 25 Leibnits, Niementiit
and che Noble Author oF Analyse des Infiniment
Petirs elule racher to takre them: Tho even chat
ay also is not wichour irs se in many Cales.
LHC LXCeIlenE MP. Nemton suppoles the absciss
et a Curre, or ary orher Rowvins oe variable
Ouantiry cobe unitormir auxmenced, and chere
Core FOruS Fluxion he purs r, orVnier. And che
other Rorvine Ouantiries he denores ulually by che
Letters V, x, y, Z, and expresses cheir Fluxions by
onts repearins che same Letrers W LOITIS OF
Pricks over C FleadS; WHUS, 8, d, 3, Z: Nhich
are the Fluxicts of the former Flovins Malsusties
And chis Mocdu I5 much moro nacural and MCor
Whecetore since  multiplied by A = 1, et
NlomenE Os  muliplied by A, cogecher wict
muliplied By a, will Be che Ploment oC1; char
is, nochins.
Furcher che Moment oE 7, Or A, id
Aud generalliy since  mulcipsied bY Au =
che Momenc or an mulciplied bY A ropechet
wich- mulciplied by n a A  F E, will be no
chins. And consequenelys ee Moment os.-, c
A =  willbe = A n 4 1, 8, E, D.
C AS F. Y
And cince A into A produces A che Momen
OF A = into 2 A  will be a (bY CasC 3.) andchere
Sore che Momene os A will ve 2 A : or2 aA
and generatty, il A ù be put equal 10 B, An Mall
Beequal ro B; and consequenty ma Am  equa
con b BF, andm a A = F equalton bB = 2, 0
n:And cheretore aA is equaliob
i c. Is egual to ihe Momentos A n. 8. F. D.
Vi
EADE N.
vions
leter.
ter chan NiementiiiS, Ox the French one wich che
Disserenctal a Mulciplicd inco rhe Flowins Ouanri
Y, cocenore the Fluxion.
And becaule these Fluxions themlelres are also
Indeterminate, and Variable Ouantiries, and do
concinually Increase or Decreale, Or grou srearer
Ox lesser. Theretore he considers the Velociries
ith which cher do s0 Increase or Diministr, 25
che Fluxions oF che Former Fluxions: And chose
mas be called second Fluxions, and are noced wich
Evo Points orexthem, thus; y, X, Z. And if vou
80 on arain, and consider che perpetual Augimenta-
tion or Diminurion oE these, as their Fluxions al(0
vou mas make chird, Fourch, or fitth Fluxions, (9c.
vohrea will be nored chus, y, x, Z; y, X Z:
i Z: And P0 on ad Infinitum. FEthe FlOWinS
Ouanrity be 2 Surd or a Fraction, hethus exprettes
Eiey A B is che Nomene ot An malriplied by B
cosether Wich the Moment oF B mulriplied into
A thac is m a p = Z -) - n b B, = F. Arid chis
Whether the Indices OF rhe PONerS BC IHECGeES OE
Fractions, Afirmatire or Negatire.
And che same Reason holds in the Products oc
ans Numbers mulciplied by chemselres continually
LHc a Bumels ot che Algorirtm or Arichme-
ablors as you pleale, or ro ad hrixh Porvers as yoû cict ot Fluriono, contins in chele cro Thines.
vill. 8. F.
ons, accordins to our way ot Norarion, may be
chusestablisted; as Lhare betore Meved in 2 800d
meature ac che end ot my Agebra, Paβ. 115.
ils Fluxion: Lex che Surd be V: a=b ies Fluxion
is    Fluxion oF the FractiOM
12y 1d 4:. Sec Dr. Wallis 5 Lat. Fdit.
128. 392.
Wrhoretore rhe Momen DE ary perierated Ouan.