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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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MATTER, Or Body, is an impenerrable,
visible, and passire substance, excendins inte
Lenorh, Breaach, and Thickne(s. This, wher
consider d in che General, remains the lame in
all the varions Morions, Configurations, anc
Chanses oS Natural Bodies, beins capable 0
purrins on allimanner of Forms, and ot morine
accordins to. all manner oF Directions and DC
grees OE Velocier.
The Onamiti OF Matter in anY BodY, is its
Mealiro, arisine trom the joine Consideration o)
the Maenieude and Density ot thar BodY: A5 il
any Body berrice as denso as another, and rate
up evice thespace, twill De Tour rimes 25 sFCac.
Phis Ouanties os Matrer is best discorerable by
TVcishe, co arhich tis alvars proportionable;
25 the PxCellenc AIT. Y. Nemion, bY most accu
rate Obserrations on Pendulums, Tound rrue by
Experience.
Dr. Woodmardi in his Fissay comards a Narurat
Arst Crearion dirided inco several Rantes, Sets,
OHLHI. LheFigure ot
al Hesene Slcere ot a Coat, is
10 cassed by the Hcralds, anc
lS born in many Genelemens
scorcheons; as in theFart L
Hluntinsdond, in ihole ot ile
Coniers, ec.
NIAZILLA Superior, ihe Epper Ta bOnC:
This constitures che interior and lateral Parrs oF
ihe Orbir ot the Fire, and comprehends alsothe
Bones oF che Nostrils, Palare, and Opper Rou
Ot Tceth. IE hach, accordins ro Diemerbrock.
Tivelre Bones Belonsins 10 it, dix on cach
Side. The First is called che Os fusale, and is
OE a Triangular Form, and policed arthe fixter
nal Angle ot the ErC. The Sccond is called
the Foramen laerymale, and is a chin pelucid
mall BonC, placed in che Incernal Ansle oF thc
originally and rcally verr different; beins at IIS
Fre, and sires a Passase ro thar Lignor which
makces che Pears. Tis near this Foramen that
the Abscesse, Wrhich the Creeks call SEgilops, anc
ive Fistula lachrimalis, usually happens. The
Thira is 2 chin pellucid Bone, placed Berwvcen
Or Kinds oE Corvuscles: Fhac aII che Corpuscles che civo former, and ichin the Orbic oF che
avhich arc oF the lame Rind Or Set, asrec in
every chins, and are most exactly litce unto one
Ere, and wrhich is continued wich che funsous
Bones oF the Nostrils. The Fourrh is a large
anocher in aIl respects. Buc thole that are of Bone, constituring the grearest parr of rhe Chcck
different Kinds, difter trom one another every
ar, a5 vell in Matrer Or Substance, in Specificke
Gravity, in Pardness, in Flexibiliey, and in sere
eal Ochex ays, as in Bignes and Figure. And
happen all che Variecies ol che Bodies Formed
Out oF them ;. and all cheir Difterences in Co-
and Palare, and receivins into it the pPeK
Tecth by their proxer Caverns: Ic hath an emi-
ment Conspicuous Foramen, or Hole, placed
undex the Orbir oF the Fre, and cransmictins
and Combinations Ol these Corpulcles rogether,
10 chic Face a Branch ot rhe Third Pair oE
Nerres. Ic hath also another Foramen ac the
hinder pare oF the Dentes incisorii; and TteH
there 5o up cvo Foraminas, ich 2 Bony PaF-
Tour and ourrard Appearance, in Fast, in cition becween them, one cocach Nostril. The
Smell, in FPardness, in Specisick Grarier, and  Fitch is a chin, hard, small, oblons Bonc, ap-
in all orher Respects.
MALTER in Dccd, and Malter os Record,
are Terms in Law, wrhich arc Caid 10 difter
thus: Macrer in Deed Ecems to benochine else
bur a Fruch e0 be proved, cho not by any Re-
cord; and Matter of Recora is that vrhich may
be proved by some Record. For Example: II
a Man be sucd ro ani Fxisent, during the Time
he as in che RingS Wars; chis is Matter in
proachins eo a square Fisure; and chis, wich
irs Parrner on the other side, constirres che
Bridse, or procuberant Bone oF the Nole. Tne
Sixth Bone forms, wich its Fellor, the Bony
Part oF the Palare, or R0OF oF the Mouth. Fal-
lopius, Columbus, and some ochers, add to these
aThirreench Bone, which cher call Vomer, and
place ic beteen the Palare and Os spheroides:
Oced, and nOc Matrer of Record: And therefore
hre thac will alledse chis For himselt, must
and will hare ic likre a kind of septum, t0 divide
the Lower Parrs oF che Nosrils. And Vesalius
reckons the ruo ossa sponsiosa amons these Bones
come betore the scire facias, betore Execurion oF the Superior Maxilla.
be ararded against him; For atter thac, nochins
vill serre but Matter of Record; thar is, lome
Firror in the Process appearins upon Record.
NIATES on Board a Ship, are a kind oF broad
Thick ClOutS, ore out of Spun Varn, Sinnet,
Or Thrums; and are used ro preserre che Main
and Forerards From galling against the MastS aF
the Tres, and ac the Cunnel of che LOOF; al50
ther serre 10 keep the Cler ot the sail from
vallins chere; a5 also 10 lare the Clews oF the
MAXIELA Inserior, is che Lorver Or MOv2-
ble sar: This concains all the Lover Fecch.
Ic hach eo Processes on cach side; ot Whict,
che Foremost is chiin and larse, and ends in 2
Vind of Poine, to wrhich the Tendon ol the Pem-
Porat Muscle is sirmly senic, and chis is called
Corona: The ocher is obtuse, and lies more Back-
ards, and is join dby a C artilase roche NVeck;
and ies Parr, by Whichit adheres, ther call Con-
dylus.. Trhach Four Foraminas desisned tO trAHI-
Fore lail from doine (0 at che Beak-head and mit the atorelaid Proceses.
BolFIpTIE.
MLOHCES, inC Jun Kipenels OF any
Fruic; and by AnalosY, che Arrival OF an)
thins eo ies just Derree ot Pertection.
MATDRATIOH, is che Action O Grovine
Ripe, Or elie Pendeney oF any Fruirs corarc
MLAXIMIS and Minimis. The Machemati
cians call thar Method wrherebr a Problem 15
relolved, wrhich requires che sreatest Or leaA
Ouancier atrainable in chat Cale, Methodus de
Maximis C5 Minimis.
nam S Cetale  s Bictohare Mathematique
he Marquis dPospitat tiis Analyse des Enfint
Mere
Macurier oe Rixenets.
O IS Sec Hon. Faber, at  Fnd oF his Sy-
nopsis ometrica, Wrhere rou ate a Great Va
Lces et obeis oc this kind. See al(o 02a