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GRAPTIOIDES, is a Process like the Pen FOF a ] draw them donn cowards che FarIH. See Cilbert
Table B0ok, about che Basis oF the Brain ic inclines and Rircher de Maenete.
backvaed.
GRAPNEL, i5 2 Kind OEAnCHOE FOF BOAES OK
Gallies co ride by, ther differ from ocher Anchors
in chac chey have Four Flukes and no Snack, tho
chereare some with chree Flukes, wich wwhich chez
use ro sncep For Flalats, or Imall Cables: In Men
oF War al(O chese Grapnels, Ox ac least a lighter
Hind oEthem, are used EO BC FhEONN intO an FinC.
mies Ship, in order ro carch hold ot lome ot hec
Orarings, Rails, Cunvales, (9c. this is done in
ordex roboarding ot her.
GRATINOS in a Stip, are (mall Ledges ot
Taed Plank Framed one into another lite a Letrice
or Prilon-grace, lyins on che Vpper-Deck berween
ehe Mlain-mast and L’ore. mast, serving For a DC
tence in a close Fighe; and also for ihe Coolness
Liehr, and Concrirance oF che Ships Company.
There is allo another Grating in the Hlead oF 
Ship, Where che Necessary-FTouse Rands.
GRAVE- ACCENT, in Grammar, Mews Wwter
che Voice, is 10 be depiessd, and is exprels d ilius
GRLAVEDO, the Pame with CoryZA.
GRAVEL L ED. ASHIES, are the Lees OF WVin
dried and bume co AMtes: S0 chac chey ate a vin
ot Calcined TarFAE.
GRAVINO oF a Ship, is bringins her sirst a
ground and then burnins oR (wich Rceds, BroOri
C3c.) al che Filch and Foulnels that sicks r0 her
Dides wirhout-Board, in ordexro pay her anew.
CRAVITAS Aceleratrix. Sec Vi, cencri
peta.
GRAVTEY, oras it may Be called, ehe Vis Cen
Tripeca, i5 Thac Oualiey by wrhich all IIeave B0
dies rend coards the Centre ot the Parrh, acce
leracins cheir Morion as cher come nearer romards
in and ehis Admirable and Oniversal Law ot
Tacure, is ehac which (generally speakins) Keepe
all Bodies in chose Places and Scarions, wohich chey
are desixtied For.
AbOuEche Cause OF this preat and Cacholick AF
Eection ol Macrer, rhere have been various dem
timents.
I. A oce Wn iave alI Farthy Bodies, by an
cural Inclination ro rend rorards che Centre of chi
Farth, as to cheir proper Place, Sub Concavd Lunae
Bur ic hath been proved over and over, thac chero
is no luct chins a5 Positive or absolute Cravitys 0
Levitu.
2. Copernicus asserrs Graviey 10 be an HIIItale
Principle in all Ehe ParIS OF Mlatrer When they are
by any meansseparared from their WVholes, EO re.
duce chemselres chicher again che nearest way, o
in Righe Lines. Buc chis is not to asion any PhyR
cal Cause oF chis grear FHect, but oniy c0 Cay B0.
dies descend, because cher are heary, or because
eher descend.
They also chat explain Graviey by Universat At.
traction, do onts sire us anocher Word, i no I
dea ot che Cause ot Craviry.
et, Or Conastone, conchuans senus ou Mastie
4. Des Carres supposes che Parricles oF his Cele
Aial Macter, by beins restected trom the Surtace
oE the Farth, and consequency ascendine up again
Fromchence ro drive down inro rheir PlacestheL er
restrial Bodies wtich chey sind above them, Sect.
20, 21, 22, 23. OF his Principia Philosoph
Buc Eis very difficule eo conccire, and, L chink.
implies a kind of Contradiction, chat Bodies Moule
be forced donnvards, by a concinual impulse o
Orher Macrer cendins upvards, and actins upon all
Pares unitormly and equally
The Ingenious Mathematician MIP. K eill OF Balict
Collere, Oxon, hath also susficiently overchromnchis
Aypochelis in che Prelace c0 his Inrroductio ad P y-
sicam.
5. Vossius and some orters, will necds have eI
Divenal Nlorion OF chie Farth round iES ANIS, 1O bC
the Cause oF the Delcent or Feavy Bodies
Whereas ris demonstrable From ExperinienE, ane
the Doctrine oF the LaWS OF Mocion, THaE MHC
Reverse oF Grariey ould chence ensue. FOr 2I
Bodies morine Circularty de alvays endeavour ro
receede ab Axe Morus: And allloose Bodies wonle
then be cast of trom the Farrh in a PangenE EO LHC
Parallet ot Lacieude oF any Place.
Will have che Presture ot the AEmOIphere LO OCCA
hion Grarier, or che Delcem Ot Licabs Bodies
Buc ris plain, by Experimenes made in vacuo, Lhac
the Aemosphere, likce aIl ocher Flulus, aotn hinder
the Descent oF Hleary Bodies, racher chan further
them or cause chem: For a Feather in Vacuo vill
descend as fast a5 a Bullet or Sione in che opeu
Air.
vour oEchis Fluid to derrude all Larchly Bodies
rom it, may by chac and lome orner Propees
make all Bodies more rowards ine Cee ot he
Farch. And he Cairh, He Can prOve BY HNIAHY LX
Perimenes, Thacchere is luch a bluid. BuE CAIS
Opinion appears ro be delcettre o e lane AC-
connechat ie Cartesian is; Wliich lec.
Fralley, owns Grarier to be an Efect unsolvable by
ans Philosophical Hypochelis, and Modestiy anid
Relisiousty resolves it inco che immediare Will Ot
our AIL. vise Creator; Wrho by appointins chis LaW
chrouphour all. che Marerial Worid, Keeps all B0-
dies in their proper flaces and stattons; Winei
wirhouc ic ould soon fall ro pieces and be urteris
destrored, Philosoph. Fransact. L. 197.
Absolute Gravity, 15 the whole soret b) WMlen any
cical Fduria, Crhieti lay hoid on  o, atia) Bodx cends donnwacas; buc che Relative ot Vul
821.
6. Ochers, mistakine he Fssect For che Cause-
J. The Learned Dr. Hook, in his Micographia
P. 22. Scems co chink char by suppolins our Clobe
OE Farch, Air and Wracer environ d round wich a
Fluid, verr Subeil and Fecerogenous ro them all;
and wtich cah Freely perrade che Potes, Hor  
Sla(s, bur eren ot the closest Mecals. The endea-
8. The Learred Machematieian, Capt. Ldmuna
3. Cassendus and Repler, and many orhers, de
sine Craviry eo be a Morion impressed on aIl Bo-
dies, by a cerrain Magnerick Atrraction oF che
Larch or Ibbe, towhich any Body descends.
Thele will hare the Farth eo bC one Great Mag
NIT. Nemton, Book 2. Prop. 19. Corol. 5. Obserres
Contines ot any Lluid, there is a cwstold Gravity
The one True and Absolute, the otter Apparent anc
ulsar and Comparative.
very vell, chac oF all Bodies considered wichin che