# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0377 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0377?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 806933011:0377 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=377 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000377.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 124 lines, status machine # Lines: 124 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. Bring che Solstirial Colure corhebrals MMerrala and chere tix che Cilobe; chen Will che Pole oF chc Eeliprick De just under 23 Degrees 30 Minures, 2c counced from che Pole abore che North Poine ol che FTorizon, and upon che lame Meridian; chere Screw che Ouadranc oF Alcicude, and chen bring ic graduared Fdse ro che Scar altigned, and chere Cay ic, s0 will he Scar cur its proper Laritude Or ehe duadrant, reckoned trom the Fcliprick; and che Ouadrant will cur che Feliprick in the Scar Consitude, or ies Distance From che first Poine ot Aries. Index W e e Flour oF che NiglE. And thus Itas e Libus et che Lhsht be knonn bY a Scais Auch OFHS Anuca Liom aS Alcirude. Examples Maythe roch, che Sun being in elie Tirs DeGICC Ot Gemini, I cale the Altitude oE Lucida Lyra Which L End eo be sr Desrees, Ox I And ies Azimutt. 10 berro Degrees ro rtie Norchrard os the PaC ehen bringins che Ouadrant oF AIitude, tO CUF thac Scar in SL Degices oE Alcirude, I Snd the LTOur. Index points at Eleven a Clock ar MiehE; as ir vould allo hare donc, hact che Scar been brousl roche Arimuch, on che GlobC. EROBL EM XVII PR O BL F M XIII. rB find the Fongirude and Laritude of any Star. LR OBP E M XIV. 20 find Ic L at stats L, Sn b Star roche Fast or W est parr oF the Florizon, Orro ehe Brazen Meridian, and che Index will her ac cordingly che Time oFche StarS Rising, Settins, 0 Culminatins, or oE irs beins on che Meridian. Thus May che roch, Arcturus vill be on thcMC ridion, at about = OF an FTour aFter 10 ac Wiet Cor Leonis will be Sectins abour onc in che Morn in8, and che tist Scar in rhe LPead ot Aries ill B Risins abouc an Llour atter. To sind che Distance berneen avy cro Scars. HE ihe Scars lie borhi under che Tame Meridiari brino chem co the Brazen Meridian, and che De. sices berueen ehem chere reckoned are their rrue Diltance. Thus Capella, or the Star in the Lese Stioulder ot Auriea, and Rigel, wrtich is in OrionS Letr Thioh, are nearty unto che ame Neridian; ane beins boch bronghe toche Brazen Meridian OF che Clobe, cheir Distance chere wilt be tound 10 be34 Deorces. PE chey are bort in che Equinoctial, or trave Borh the Came Declinarion, (i. c.) are boch in che Pairie Parallet, etien brins chem one atrer anorher ro rhe Brazen Meridian, and the Deorees of the Liquino ctial incercepted berween chem; when chus brouslr OtheMeridian severally, are cheir Distance. TE the ScarSare neither under ttie Pame Meridi an nOx Parallet, then cither lay che Ouadrant ot Altiiude From one to chie orher, (it it will reachs and char ill Mew che Distance becween chem in Degrees: Or else cakce che Distance wirh Compas ses, and apply chac ro che Equinoctial; Or 20 ehc Merician. Wthich Mertiod oE Proccedins also will Mevo the Distance oF any civo Places on the Terrestrial Olobe in Degrees; and by Multiplication bY 70 rou will hare ic in Miles. Wheretore eo And ho Par any Place on the Globe is trom anorher, you necd onty cake che Dittance berreen chem on che Globe wich a pair ot Compasses; and applrinq che Compasses ro the EguaTOF, at the beginnine ol Aries, Or acthe tiest Meridian, rou will chere finc che Dexrees; Wtiich mulcip 1Y bY 30, and chac will tuum ic inco Miles. Thus the Distance Berween London and Zamaiea beins on theOlobe 69 Dcorees; L mulciply chatbe h0, andit sires me 1830 Miles; and (0 Far is Ja- maica distane directly tromi London, or in an Ark oE a Great Cirele. Culminatins (i. C) beins on the Meridian. Rectise iBe blobe, a our-Maci au BIB CHC PR OBLFM XV T0 at any Time assisned, what Scars are or Setrine; what are on the Meridian; and ho hich they are above the Ftorizon; end on nhat A. Zimuth or Point of the Compass they are; by whict means the reat Stars in the Ieaven may casilys noon by cheir proper Names, and rishely distin. Suished from another Rectisce ehe Globe, and fit the Ouadrant of Alti sude, aa tet Wne Cilobe, by ihe meansof che Com PaIS, due Worth and Souch; then turn rhe Globe and FTour-Indes Wothe ITour of che Nighe astigned (0 will the llobe chus fixd, represent che tace Or appearance et the Hleavens For chac Time. Wrheseby ron mayreadily sec whar Scars are ir dian5 Wwtrich are core North, or wotich 10 the South, (3C. And che Ouadrant oF Alcitude beine laid over any parricular Scar, Wvill Mew ies Altitude and Azimuth, and on whac Poinc of che Compals ic is; Whereby any Scar may casily be Hnown; espe- cially il vou have a Ouadrane, or any such Instru mene, eo take che AIitude ot any real Star, Cup. poseao be nnocin by cc code, Woscc nethet Orneas che lLOzon, wrhrar are on of nearrHe Meri ic agrec wich thac Scar which is its Representarire e drac in ils Biven Aluude; Tor Then ihe HOU l BOL.Od Aas id ihc LoWee Carcilasinouo moreable pare ot ehie Nosc GLOSSCCOMIOM, is a Chrrurscons instru- ment for broken Limbs, (o called from the Strape oF a Merchanes licle Castrer irhich was formerty carried upon the Back. Blanchard. OL.OL LLS, Is the Chink ot etie Largnx wotict 15 Corered by che Fpiclorris CLDTEL, are Tix Muscles irtiich more ctie burocts, oneach tde ilec on che GlobC, OF HOT. P ROBE F M XVI. Siven the Suns Place, and any Stars atitude, sind ehe Hour os ehe Nisht. Rectisie the Globe, atid fit ehe Ouadrant; thet move the Globe ro and Fro, till che Ouadrane cur GLDTACS