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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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tlou ot them may commodious be ctu
regard beins had co the due placins rhe Figure
et e Lldduet, 25 70u sec in chis
Lxample.
80
26845
10
3004
38C
l.LLCLLCaCOl in beoinelis, 
n Lines,
to be mored In a perpendicular l’olture alone
another, a5 bc; in Wwtich Case che Line ab
Tet ab be r0 be mulriplied bY ad, make
any Anole ac plealure, and then onone ofthe LCBS
let OH a u =EoOnirr; and on the lame Lcs ser
Ot the Anele; dra u b, and parallel 10 ii
chroueh d, draw d c. L CaY d c, Or 6, i5 chC
Product: FOr a u. u d:: a b. b c
AVETIPLICATION oE Decimal Fractions.
Sec Decimal.
NVLTIELICATION OC Fractions. Sec in
Fractions.
MVLTMLTCATION oF Losarithms. Sec
Locarithms, NF 6
NVLTIPLICATTON by Loscrittms. Sec
Logarithms, N 8
NIDLTIPETCÄND, in Arichmerict, is che
Numiber ro be mulsiplied. Sec more in Multi-
plication.
NDETIPLTCATOR, in Arichmerick, is che
Number bx Wrhich rou mulciply, or che Num-
ber mulcipivine
NDLTIPETER, che lame with Mulciplicator.
ANVLTO forriori, Oe 2 Minori ad majus,
iS an ArOUMenE Otren uled BY Ficrleton, and is
Framed Thus: IF it be s0 in a Feottinene partins
new Righc, much more is ic For che Restit-
tion oF an Ancient RigHE, (9C.
NDNIMENTS, anons che LaloVerS, are
caten For such Auchenrick Dceds and Writings.
25 a Man can detend he Firle r0 his L and OF
Fistate by.
NIDRACE, in Law, Sionities a FOII Or Fri
by chis means che Describent a b Wwill L che bute eo be levied for buildino Or repairino oF
Rectanle a d cb; and il ic be dirtace 10gc- Publick W alls; and is due cirher by CranE Or
thex wich the Dirigent, into any Number OF Preleription. IE scems alo 10 bc a Liberty
equal ParES, it Will by is Morion desCrIDE a5 Sranted EO a FOWn bY che KInG, FOr the col
many sirele Rectangles, as the Vnires II the lectins Moner comards che Wallins of the lame
ADRDER, accordins ro our LaW, is a wil-
Tul and selonious tillins ot anocher uxon pre-
pensed Malice, Whether secretly or openly, Lno
lim man or Forcioner lirins under che HinsS
Prorection. And this prepensed Malice is Jivo-
Eold: I. Exprels, When ic may be cvidency
And ehis is che Realon wohy Mulciplication, prored chat chere vas III. Wvill; 2. Implicd,
Wrhen onc sillech anocher (uddentr, havins no-
or such like: For in luch 2 Casc, or when 2
Nan Hillerh a meer Stranger, the LaW presu-
rocation.
NDRDERERS, are small Peices oF Ord-
Since in au Nsulciplication, Onier is ro one nance, cicher ot Brals Or Tron, havine Chambers
Multiplication in Lines mas BE PertoLC B) at cheir Brecches: Ther are mostly used at dea
ac the Bulk heads oF che Fore caAIC, FlaE deck.
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The Proos of Multiplication can only cerrain-
diride che ProductD) Cuer Factor, the duoata;
it ron hare Wroyohe cruly, will be che octier
ap. ThuS,
IF dirided 6) 24, Il Stres 303.
Iy be eRfected by Division, the Common Method Of u d, che Multiplicator (3.) Then seF the
by casting out the Nines beins Falle: For it You Mulciplicand a b (2) Trom a on che other LCs
For Division destroys vonae Mupuation build
TF 8760 be dirided by 365, it sires 24.
Is made by Supposins a Righe Linc, 25 a b,
metricallo ccs.
called che Describent, and B c MHC SIent: FOI
Describent and Dirisent ill produce, Oy beine
mulciplied into one anorher, viz. 2T. LOr wrten
the Line a b hach moved over one part ol a d
ic will, by its 3 parts, have described ile3 lic
ele Rectangles in che Ars Column; Wit id
comes r0 2, it will hare described 3 more, l.
in the Lacine Tonsue, is nlually expresse by
Product.) AS il ab vere mulciplied b) bc
thes Car a b ducta in bc; because the Desch-
means deseribes the ReCtanole. SO Fhat L(ectan-
Sle and Product are all one in GeOmerrY.
the Word Ducta; (and from hence also comes chiins ro desend himselt, a5 soins over a sile.
beni is lead, 25 it Were, ox carried alonq in an meth that he had Nalice against him, or else
CreCt Posture uxon the Dirigent, and by thac he vould noc do ic withour anz manner oF PrO-
Factor, 25 the Ocher is 10 the Product; cheretore (Fhac is Charges made oF BralS OP TTON) pur in