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For luppole (a5 in the Figure) 2 Cplirider, Flc-) For erer il ic be hepr trom che Air. SonC HlK
misphere, drid an Inverced CMe, to have che lame chem of Copper, buc chole are noc 10 800d as
Base and Aldiclde, and ro De cur by Intinire Planes chele.
all Parallet eo ehe Balc, Ot Wtich d e is one.
Tis
plain, ehe Square oF kh; Wwill every Wrhere be equat
coche Square oF KC (che Radius oF che Sphere) che
Square Bc == e h Square; and consequentty since
Circles are ro one anortier as the Squares of cheis
Radii, all che Circles oF the Flemilphere will BC
equal eo all Thole oF ihe Cplinder, deductinschence
allchose ofthe Cone: WVheretore che Cylinder, de
ductins che Cone, is equal ro che Flemisphere:
buc ris known, ihe Conc is one chird ot che Cy.
linder, and consequenty the Sphere must DC EVO
chirds oF ic.
Z
INDOCTION, is commonty ratcen For the si
rins Possention ro an Incumbent oF his Church, b3
leadins him into ic, and deliverins him cheleys
by che Commistary or Bimhops Depury, and by t
ririoins onC bF chC BellS.
INDORANTIA. See Sclerotica.
LLADOSIOM. See AmnioS.
INEDIA, is abstaimins Trom Meac, wotien one
Cats lets eltan formerty
WNELFABLE. NVMBERS, che Tame vich Surd
Numbers.
INEOVIALTEY oF Natural DayS. Tho et
cun is sapPosed rulsarly, l meature our Time c.
qually, vel he 15 very tar trom doins (0: And a3
He bealctm Ermin, an 2
Ehos ls allo somerimes callea
An Escurcheon of Pretence; Which
s born ertien a Man Marries ar
Flcirels: For then he bearS her
Coat OF A_nS On an In escutcheon.
Oe Fscutcheon of Pretence, in rhe
Caustick ) lhe Salto oF Spieic oF Nirre.
TNFIMOS VENTER. Sec Abdomen
TNEINTTE, is chac which hach no Bounds,
TermS, nox Limits.
INEIMTTE ODANTIEY. Os ihe sererat Spe-
cies of Intinice Ouanciey, and of the Proportions
they bear one to the other, the Learned Mathema-
tician Capt. Flaller, in Philoloph. Fransactions,
XV. 195, sives the follonine Account.
Thar all Magnimudes Intinitely Great, Or Such 25
exceed any astienable Ouanturr, are equal amone
themselves, though it be vulsarty receired tor
Maxim, is noc ver lo common a5 ir is erroneous:
andche reason ot the Mistake scems to be, Thac
che Mind oF Man comins ro conremplate the Px-
centioris oF What exceeds the bounds ot its C apa-
ciry; and of which the verr Idea docs include a
Negation oF Limits; it comes i0 paIS, that We
acquielce generally, and ix sustices 10 lay, suctia
Ouanciey is infinite.
But it we come more nearly eo examine this
Norion, We hall sind, charthere are really besides
Infinite Loneth, and Infinite area, no lels chanchree
several Porrs oF Infinire Solidity: AII OF which are
Ouantitates sui generis, havins no more Relation or
Proporrion the one ro che other, chan a L ine 10 a
PIanE, Ox a Plane ro a Solid, or a Pinite ro an In-
sinite; buc chac amons chemlelres cach oF chese
Species oF infinites, are in siren Proporrions, is
chac which is to be made plain.
Bur Arst, Infinire Lensth, OF a Line insinicety
lone, is to be considered cicher as beginnins acn
Poine, and Cointinitely excended one way, or elle
boch asstrom che Pame Poine; in Wrhich case the
cheorie, Whichis a begintins infnity, is che onc
hals oF che whole, which is che Sum of che begin-
nins and ceasins infinity, or ot infinity a parte ante,
and a parce post, wtich is analogous ro Piternier in
time ox duracion, in which chere is alvars asmuchr
10 Follon as is past FrOM anY POINE OF MOmene Ot
Fime: Nor dorh che Addition or Subduction ot
Anire Lensch or Space ocime alter che case cirher
in Intinies er Frerniey, since boch che ore and hc
Orher Carinor be any pasr ot che itiole.
AS EO Infinire SurfacE OF. Drea, any RighE Line
insinire ly extended borh ars on an infinite Plane,
does diride thac infinite Plane into equal ParES, chC
orie to the righe and the ochex tothe lete oF chelaid
Line; buc it trom any Point, in Tuch a Plane ENO
Righr Lines De infinitely extended, s0 as to make
an Ansle, ehie Intinire Arca, intercepred bermeem
those Infinire Righe Lines, is ro the Wvhole Infinire
Plane, as che Arch of a Circle, on che Poine ot
Concourse oF rhose Lines as a Cenere, intercepred
the Circle; or a5 the Deorces oP the Ansle to rhS
360 Descees ot che Circle.
is impo 1OI a Sod Llock, OF MOremenE, 1O
teex rinte en che Sun; l0bne thac is crusy suct
vill meature Lime lalen ore truls, arid 80 ex
acter than any Sun- Dial.
Tne ulual RcaIOH, and otie 800d one it 15, 0
the Inegualier ot Nacural Days, vou have under
ihe Nolu Lquation os lime: But che cruch is
ehere iS aHO aHeL, ae EHaC is, Thac ehe MOri
on oF ThC LAFEH HICH, LO itS AXis, iS nOE ex-
actlys Equable or Regular, but is fometime sit.
ter and lometimes ROdveT.
INERCEFICAC Bocdies or Parricles, are suet
es are Aussimtr and unactive.
NESCOTHTEON, in HCralas, senites al
born Wichin it 2s an Ordinary, chus.
che Lscurcheon, concainine; ot che Field, and i
escurcheon Cules
midele oF his on COat.
INFERNAL SFONIE, Or Perverual C austrck,
a Chymical Operarion. Whereby Silver is rendrec
 Li tate alct
Dissolve in a Viol any Ouantiey ot Silver in
chrice irs Weishe oF Spirir of Nirre, and rhen in 2 berween the laid Lines, is co rhe Circumference ot
Sand heac evaporare ? OF che Moisture. TheRe
mainder pur inro a eood larse Gorman Crucible,
Wwhrich place over a eentle Fire, let the Matrer a
lone, and heaving rill ac last ic sintes quierly ro che
Boccom: Then encreasine che Fire a livele cvist
ruen inco an Oil; and as loon as von perceire ic
e0 be (0, ie must immediarely be poured into an include, on an Infinite Plane, a quarrer pare ot che
Tren.Mold purposely made for ic, hacis a licele oil’d
ana greasd, wtere ic ill presenely congulare and
hrarclen. AITeF EIS TaKeN OUE, IE MIII DC ACFIMH
LCL LcIDLC
Lvo Lishic Lines meerins at a Kiphr Ansle, do
Whole Intinice Area oF such a Plane.
But it lo berwvo parallet lntimice Linesbe luppO.
ict Wvell Kopc; is a eseat causticho adtee o hude sied claion ou tuch an tnhirice Ptaim, He dca in
rescerreo