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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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FTAORTANT, cho Term in FTeralder proxer ro (ro be singly insensible. For unlels cher are exceed
Blazon Fistres wrhen chey are born in any Fiscur-ins fine and subril, cher canno penetrare readit
cheon in an Frect or Perpendicular Posture, a5 il into the Pores ot Conrisuous Bodies, and (0 walu
etiey evere pucting up cheir Fleads aborerhe Water or buen chem.
eo breath.
FIAWSER, (OF Halser) is a RopC consistins OF AS co the Operation OE Fleat uxon our Senles,
three Scrands, being a kind of a licele Cable, Pex
vins For many Vses on board a Strip, a5 co Fasten
tho RetulE oF wtich we otcen call Ileat; it is usu.
ally estimated by irs Relation co the OrganS OF OUT
ehre Main and Fore Mrouds, to arp a Ship orer a Feclins; For e dont elteem aur Body roveHo
BaF, (9C
FTAWVSES OF a Strix are ervo round Foles under
her Flead or Beak, Thro wrhich che Cables pass
wvten e is at an Anchor. They Cay a Strip hach
a Bola Tramse, Wrhen che HIolesare hish above Wa-
Fer. A Fresto PTamse, is Wheri chere is a suspicion
that the Cables are frecred in the HToles. To Freske
the FTamse, is 10 lay new pieces upon che C’able in
the Hlavole. They caIl ic, Burnins in the Tramse
when che Cable endures an exeiaordinari Aress
Clearins the Tanse; is unewistins che Cables, wrhict
by realon oF the Ships windins, are intans led one
wich anocher.
TTEAD- ANOLES. SeC Aneles.
FIEAD- LINES (in a Strip) are the ROpeS OF al
Sails which are next ro che Vards, and by which
He Sails are made Fastro the Vards.
TIEADSAILS, are chose Sails in a Ship wrhictr
belons co chebore mast and Bolcsprir, because chez
Boven che FPead oF che Shrip, and do make it Fall ot
andkeep out ot the Wind; chese in quarrer Winds
are che chict drawins Sails.
HIEAD. SEA is Wwhen a ereaL NVave or Billon O
etie Sea comes riehe a head oF a Stip as Meis in hei
Courle.
HIEART. Sec an Anacomical Descriprion OF il
under che WVord Cor.
FIEAL, one oF che tour Primary Oualiries, and
Teems ro contilt only, or ac least chiesty, in theloca
Mocion oF the (malI Parts oF a Body Mcchanically
modified by cerrain Conditions, oF Wrhich the Prin
cipal is the rehemene and rarious Agitations ot
chose small Insensible ParIs.
In wtich Description it appears chere arethele
chree Condirions necestary e0 produce Heat.
I. FHaEthe snalt Parrs be vehemenely and ra.
vidir agicared, or mored in a much greater degrec
Than is necellary ro produce che Qualier we cal
Eluidits.
Corpulcles thus rehementty agicated, be also very
various; fome morins up, some donn, lome ic
che RigheFland, ochersro che Letr, (5c. And hence
cho Air and Wacer arc ve tind often very vehe
menely mored, as in Tempests and Cataracts, yet
there is no reason eo expect chac cher ould grou
hor upon this Morion; Decause the Vehemener be.
Jones corhe Progressire Morion of che Whole Body
and norwichtandins chac, vet the Parrs ic consicts
ot, may noc any chins near be (o much quickned
in their Morions made accordins ro ocher rarious
Dererminarions, 25 to grow senlibly hoc; bue ir
Bodies verr hoc or entindled, the rapid Morion o
the insensible Parrs seems cohave all manner oF Di
rections, and to be darred round in 2 kind oF Burn-
ins Sphere, au manner ot Way5.
brisk enough co enerease or surpa(s that OF che Par-
ticles ofthe Organ: LO It IE DC mOre LaHB HI In
Body ro be Cold; but if ic be moro violent in che
Object chan in the SCMEICHE We laY, he BO) 1S
Luabltso
Grea F LaMIC.
becochac, ad ee se e ene Suns sulle il als
Other time.
untels the Motion oF its Imall Parrs be violem et
the Object chan in ihe Sehelem, lue pronounceche
hOE; as ar osse may Fixperimene by purtinq his
Flana When Cold into arm Wacer; For chan che
WVacer will appear arm eo him, Wereas AIda HIS
Fand been hor, l nould have felr cold
The Intensenels oF Fleat (aS al(O OF LigHE) al
WayS IS as The Density oF the RayS, Or Parricles ob
Fire wohich occasion ic, and chat Densier is a5 che
Distance trom che Radiarins LMnprocally. Sec
The Learned and Curions Dr. Stare, in Philes.
Transact. N. 213. hach publistred sereral stranoe Fx-
Perimenes about che Production oF Flame and Fire
Trom che bare Mixture oF crvo Liquors actually cold
ertrich uvo Liquors are a Vegecable Oil (che
kinds oF which, proper Por this purpose, he chere
sires vou in a Table) and a Compound Spi
ric oF Nirre; utrich Spirit is made by Distillation
(in 2 RetOTE) OF equal Parts OF Salc Petre and Oil
oF Vicriol, in a Sand Furnace, with a great Fire.
And one ching is very remarkable 25 10 His LWO
Liquors, thac tho Cumpordes cannor be made by
frino, co sire any Fixplosion in che exhrausted Re-
ceiver, vec these did (0 in a verr rapia Manel,
blovins up he Reccires, aHe STCaKHIIS O 
The Learned and Ingenious Captain Falley
hach a Dilcourle in Philosoph. Transact. N. 203. 2.
bouE the PFOPOrtiOnaL FLCAE OE che Sun in allLari-
rudes, and oF a Mechod For collectine che lame:
Where he Bews, Thac che Simple Action oF the
Sun i5 a5all Ocher Tmpulses OE STrOKeS; more or lese
Torcible, accordins ro the Sines of the Angle oF
Incidence, or ro the Perpendicular ler Fall on che
Plam, Wvhence the Verrical Ray (BCiB CHaL OL MhC
Su on the Florizoncal Surtace ot che Parch, will
grearest LLeat) beins pur For Radius, che force of che
2. That che Determinations oF che Insentiose
3.Fis requisire also ro che Production ot Fleat
This Beins allowed for true, it will chen Follon-
Thac rhe rime of the continuance of che Suns Mi-
nins, beins caken for a Balis, and the Sines of che
Suns Alcicudes crected chercon as Perpendiculars,
and a Curre dravn chrouph che Extremicies ot
those Perpendiculars, ehe Area comprehended, Mali
be proportionate ro the Collection oF the Hear of
allThe BeamS OF the Sun in thac space oF time.
Fence ic Will follow, Thac under che Pole the
Collection of aIl the FPCac OF a Propical DaY, is
proportionare ro a Rectansle oF the Sinc of 23 DC-
srees and a halt into 24 FTours, or the Circumte.
rence oF a Cirele; Thatis, the Sine oF 23 Degrees
and a halt, beino nearty = OF Radius; 25 = 2 intO
Lhac che thus variousy and rehemenely agitared 12 LTours. Or the Polar Fleat is equal to chac ol
Pacictee, be alo l smalt, ao Beneratis spentiae. l ete Sun concomine 1 z tlouto abore Due Honioise
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