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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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2. Fhac MorE Rope is caltec d Fendant, Wrtric
Balls.
Kind ot Bouble reles, ueaeato. ole
Double Vesset.
PELLTCLE, a litele SKin. When any SOlU-
rion in Chymicer is in a senele FTeat eraxoratec
10 lons ril 2 chin Stin or Film arise on The tOP
oF che Liquor, ris called an Evaporation toa
Pellicle; and then chere is very licele more Li-
quor sesi char, wvtrac will just serve ro teep itie
Salis in Lusion.
PEEVIS, is the Place aE the BOEOM OF the
Belr, roherein che Blacder and Wonib ate eor
Lained.
Verrex in che lou Ol Conversence, ab ac 6.
Braces alc sccred.
EFEIBMOS, is a Pack ana touc Colont in
PELLICAN, is che Chrmists Term FOF 2
at the otier end hach a Block atet SMIVeF, EC
reere lome runnins Rope IO. THUS CHC LCn
aant oF the Lackle is made fast 1o thetlcact oF thC
Masts; and che Pendanes to the Back Scays are
Fastened eo, and hang donn on the lu
dL
Shromds. AIO aMI the YaEdL-AEIMS, exCePE iC
at ore end is tastened ro che Hlead of ihe Mas
or torhe Vard, Or to the Cler of the Sail, and
ehe
Missen, have ot chete eats, n Willes che
PENDOLOM, i5 a WVeiohe hanging at the
the Pace, freguent in Melancholick MCn.
PFLLEIS, a Bcarins in Feralary. Sec
PFL VIS Aurium. Sec Cochlea.
PEL VIS Cerebri. Sec Choana.
PELVIS Renum, is a Membranons Vessel 0
Orine, and pours ic into the Bladder.
PEMLHIGODEStebris, is a Spoted Fever:
lome laz d Windy, Or a FlatUlCnE FCVeF.
PFNCIL OF Rays in Opricks, is a double Cone
OF RayS Joed rogether at che Base; one of
end ot a Sering, Chain, er Wire, by wtole VI
brations or Swines 10 and Fro, the Parts or Diste-
rences ot Time are Mealured.
The Velociries ot Pendulums in their lorrest
Loue are as che Chords ot che Acks chez Lal
trom or describe.
Thus if the Pendulum FI P BC sec FaII From
the FeiBhE H, its Velocier at P ill be expol.
ded Byche Chord HP. (In the Fieure fol-
lomine.)
Lio Caid chat Ricciolus WaS The sIrs FaE AF
tempredro meature Pime by che Pendulum, and
cherein he as Folloed, tho near aboucthelame
time, by Lansrenus Vendelinas, Mersennus, Rir-
Wrhich hach is Verrex in Pome one Point of the cherus, Xc. (ome of Whieh declare ther Knew
Object, alet e Stalo  P. S for its Bale; and
nochins oF RicciolusS AEempE: Butthe sirsEThat
applied it to a Morement, Cloct, or Warch
WaS Mr. Christopher Fusens, and woho brougheir
al(o t0 à 800d deoree oF Perfection.
The Learned NIr. Iaac Nemion, in his ACC
rare Experimenes on Pendulums, Found tMat che
Macter oF all Bodies is exactsy proporrionable 0
aieie Wcietre
Receptacle in eicher Kidner, wrhich receires ch
rhe orher hath its Base on the lame Glals, buci
Line BCC, LCanu n at Ot Mat LCnCH.
Land, Whes Dens amon surrounded With Na
ter, and is joyned to che Continent only by an
Istmus, or narro Neck oF Land; 25 Africa, the
Sreates Peninsula in the Wortd, is joined 10 asia,
ihe Dimensions ox Places OF thC PartS OF the 0-
cher; irhich is manitestis impostible, and con-
cradictorr r0 ReaIOn.
Sain 25 tar 25 R, the AFI FI K represents the
Rccardacion arisins trom rhe Resittance ot rhc
AI.
PENOMBKA, in AAronomY, is a Fainc Kind (brationS WIII DC as nearty equal as it the Pendu-
oF Stradow, or che urmost edge of the perfect (lum did livins Ia Vacuum. WVherefore it scems
Stradors wtrich haxpens at che Fctipse oE the ro be a Ntistake in thole who admire a ClOck Or
NOon (o rhat ic is verr dissicule eo determine  WVatch For ies Pendulums (winging fat, or takcine
ends.
lomacimee loc Dilimetia sa
iotich 1s q2ooili vatc ee an Honc.
ThuS: B C SC is a PeneH ot Rays, and
LELIAISOLA in GcoBraphY, is a Porrion C
thac ot Mored to brecce, al.
PFHELRATTON of Dimensions, is a Philo-
Cophical mayet expresti, LBac tuo Bodies are
IFche Pendulum P, be ter Fall From the Fleiphe
FI, ana then al sIS recurn chat Wa) come UP a-
THC LHOTEeT ArHS any Pendulum aCLCHIDES, C
equaller iil eH ViOTalIOHS DC LO Ore anOtHeF;
and when che ArkS are exccedino (malI, the Vi
in the Came Place, lo rhat the Parrs of one do c-
very ixhere penetrate into, and adequately sillup
PENDO COMS, Mersennus toundthe lenscti
PENDANES OF a Stip, are oF tvo kinds.
X. LHOsC Ionq CoIOUrS, Or Streamers, CUF
vointins ou conards che end, and chere divided
InEO EVO PatEs, and which, are hung our at che
ETeads ot the Mans, Ox ac the Tard- Arm ends,
3 Feer 6 lreses, and since ris agreed that in OuE
Laricude, Il is just 39 Inches, 2 lenctis.
A Pendulum oF F0 Inches, wantins about one
Tench ot an Inch, vill verr neat svins half Se-
are called Lendauls, alel are used for Me, ane conds, or che 12Och parc OF a Minute oF Time:
ot a Pendulum chac won d swins Secondsto bc