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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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Mr. Anderions Table of the Names, Diameters, Chases, Requisite.
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der, COrMParatIVO FOrCeS, and GFCaTCA RanGCS, 10 Fie MICIS S LDa
tion, of Pen several Peices of Canon, Fxperimentally and ub  cols
demonstratedo
Names of the Pieces
A FaICC
A
2 A Falcone
POM.
LenBth 1Diamet I Requi.
OF the
Chase
OF thc
BOrC.
TitC
POI
O
Grea- Compa
VC
2
RarSC
eet
Inches.
1B.
 et ala
3.
9 AWVie CaO
10 A Carmon ROY a
The Sirenoth and Serriceablenels oF a Piece) And his Schollar Torricellius, in his 2d Bo0K
ot Ordnance, consilts rery much in the Thick-
nels oF the Metal, especially abour is Chamber
and Brecch, and chis is called ius Fortification.
And ot chis chere are chree deprees boch for
Cannons and Culrerinss.
P. Such as are ordinarilys Forritied, are called
Lecitimate Pieces.
2. Those wohose Forrisicacion is lettened, are
Called Bastard Pieces.
3. There are Lome that are doubly Forrited,
wrtrich are called Double. Forritied or Excraordi-
nary Pieces.
The Forrisication oF a Cun is reckoned From
the Thicknels oF the Metal ac the Touch.hole, ad
ehe Frunnions and ac the Muzale, in Proporrion
cothe Diamerer of the BOrC.
The Doublyfortified Pieces, are a tull Diame-
De Moru Projectorum, brings the FTorizontal Kan
ses cothe Table oE Sines, and che greares Alri
cudes ro che Vetled Sines: Thac i5, he prores
That all Ranses on the Plane of the Trorizon, are
in Proporrion to one another, as the Sines of the
Double aneles os the Flevation os their Lines es
Direction. And forthe Time of the Continuance
oE any Shoc abore che FTorizon, he Mews in
Prop. 18. Book 2. Thacas Radius is to the grea-
rest Duration (i. e. When che Elerarion ot che
Piece is gr deorces, or When it Rands Perpendi-
Cular) : : S0 is the Sine oF any ortier Elevarion
oE rhe Cun, coche Time oF the Ranse oF chat
SHOE.
Aftex cis, one Robert Anderson, Dy Frade 2
Nearer, bur peculiarty stiltul boch in the Appli-
carion ot Mathematicks co chis Nlatter, anet also
cex of che Bore in Thichnels ar the Touch. hole, prodisious Industrious and Accurare inmatine
 oFic at che Trunnions, ac 2, ac their MurZIC.
The Lessened Cannons have but = Or ZZ OF che
Trials ich boch Cruns and Morrars, wrhich hae
procured to be cast and ficted ac his oun charse
Diamerer oF cheir Bore, in chicknels ac the This Man, I CaY, in the Year2674. publimed a
Touch. hole, 2 ac che Frunnions, and = s ac che Book of the Cenuine D se and Fffects of the Cun
MuzEle.
cogether ich Tables of the Alcicudes of Proje
All the Double fortifred Culverings, and all les- ctions abore the Forizon, dtc. Calculared by
Per Pieces of char kind, have a Diameter and )
ac the Touchhole =S. ac che Trumnions, and E=
ac che Muzule: Andche Ordinarr P’orrihied Cul
verines are every ar as your Double Forritied
Cannon: And che Lessened Culverings are as
che Ordinarr Cannons, in, aIl respects.
Mr. Screet; in which, in 50 Propositions he
eWS.
I. Flonr Crom any Shot oF L Breat Cun o
any Plece, homsoerer made, ro tnd che greatest
Random ot chat Peice: And also ro strike any
The Ordinary Fortifred Cannons hare 3 ac the Place uxon cicher Ascents or Delcenes wichin ehie
Touchhole, s’arthe Trunnions, and Jac the Reach oF the Peice.
Mu22lC.
2. Ile Mervs che Relarions oF all Cuns OF hC
The Famous Calileus as che sirst, wrho pro- Tame sind amons chemselres; and chence che
ved the Line of a Bullet to be in che Curre of a Dimensions and Requisite Ponder ot any Peice
Parabola (Abstractins from the Line os impulse
and the Resistance of the Medium, 25 L judsc) 25
witha Ranse ansiverable ro any Degree beins
siren: FIe sires Rules ro find che Requisire
rou mas sind in his Fourth Dialosue; Wrhere al Powder ot any orher Piece, and ro Arikee any
lo he sires a Table of FTorizontal Rases. Discorsi Place ac demand wirhin Reach, its Dimensi
Dimostrazioni Machematiche, P. 280, 281.
ons beins allo siren.
3. tle
3
6G
3387
3298
6 AL
A Culrerin
8 A Demi-C