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Foud ihe Sun, really deviaces FroM That Larallet
um, Whileh ic seems ro Kecp wvich ic sele an che
Eime Ot one Annual Rerolution: By this ABCEFZ
rion it delcribes a Conical Superticies; and 
Farths Lgulator morins round the Sun, coserte
Writh he Fdechs AXis, che Incerlections oF the Cele.
stial Equator ich ehe Peliprick, will run back, Ox
more in Antecedentra, 25 Wwill all Orher Points O1
the Fcliprick, (25 vell as chose Rguinoctial Ones.)
he Sion lauris, ec.
ceiver.
Rario in boh Fisures.
For Aappose rhere was siren any chree Numbers or
Ouantiries Ceomecricallr proportional, a5 A, B, anc
C, and chac it vere required eo sind d FourrH D
proporrional torhem.
Since it is chat A: B:: C: D, ThCrCFOrE AD
=BC, and contegueneir D = BC
A5 chac is, che
Fourrh Term is equal toche Ouorient oE Sccond.
mulciplied bs che Third Term, dirided bY che
Fust:
Crchus in Numbers.
Suppose siven 12, 4, aud 9; required a Fourrt
Noi 25 12 : 4: : 9: .
BuE 12 Q = 4 X 9 = 36.
Theretore C=
Sides by 12.
12 C: 3. by diridines vorta
CiOROLL ARF.
And trom hence tis plain, Thax if any cvo Fri
argles, Parallelosrams, Prilms, Parallelopipeds
Prramids, Cones, Or Cylinders, hare their Bases
and Alcicudes Reciprocally proportional, those eve
Fisures or Solids are equal to one another; and
vice versa, it ther are equal, their Bases and AIri-
tudes are Reciprocally proporrionable.
RECTEROCAL Proportion, is Whien in fOu
Numbers, the Fourrh is lesser than the Second, by
(0 much as the Third is grearer than the First, and
vice versa; on which is founded che Inverse or In-
direct Rule of Threc, THUS.
4 : 20: : 8:
Scethe Corollary atter Reciprocal Fisures.
There is great ule made oE this Reciprocat Pro-
portion, BY NIr. Tsaac Nemron, and OtherS, in their
Demonstrarions oF che Lams of Motion, _c. and
indeed wirhour a clear knowledge ot il, they can-
not be undersood.
RECENTATIONos a Plain, is che Ouantier oF
Ocorees wrhich any Plain, on wetich a Dyal is sup
Posedro be drann, lies or falls backmards tromthe
eruls uprisht or verrical Plaim
RECLIMINO, in Dyatlins, che Plane thatleans
trom ron iohen vou stand betoreir, is said ro be a
Reclinine Plane
RECLIHMC Declining Dyals. See Declinins
Rectinine Dyals
RECOOHTSANCE, in LaW, i5 as a Bond OE
Obligation of Record, cestitrine the Recoenisor FO
ove to che Recornisce a cerrain Sum of Moner, and
is acknomledged in Pome Courr of Record, Ox bC.
fore some Judge, Master oF the Chancerr, Ox Ju-
Rice ot Peace; and those char be meer Recoeni-
Sances, are nor Scaled bur Fnrolled, and Pxecurion
by Forcechereot, is oF all he RecognisorS oods Or
Chatrels, (exCepE DrauehE Beacts and Implemens
Ot Llusbander) and the Noreer ot his Lands.
RECOGHTSEE, is hre ro whom one is bound in
2 Recognisance.
RELOOHETIONE cdnullanda per vim C duri-
tiem facta, ls a Wric ro che justices oF che Com
And therefore the Signs OP Fix d Scars chat make
the 12 Zodiacal Conlellations, will appear 
move torward,  in Consequentia; a5 les o
scem to hare aosse by che Ouanciey oF a wslole
Sisn; For erhich Rcason, rou sind the Picture o
the Ram Painted on our Globes at the beginnins oF Propoiional.
DF. Gregory in his Fxcellent Astronomia Physica
C9 Geometrica PFOP. LZIV. Tib. F. Makesthe PrO.
lace Spherordical Fisure of ihe FarH, 10 be che
Primarr Occaston ot ihis Recession ot the Equi
noctial Points; and Wichal sews chat the Parcts
Axis in evers Annual Rerolurion round che Sun
vice changes les Inclination to the Rcliprick, and
25 otten recutns again to irs former Pohrion.
REOIDINOS Morbus, a Relapse, is wotien che
Norbitick MatteF, Thac WaS lefe in che Arst Di
Semper, Desins to Work and termenie again.
RFCIPTEHTS, Or Reccivers, are those Vestels
utrich in Vistillarion, are Luced co the Beak, Ot
Nose oF AlemBick, RCTOTE, (00. to receire itic
Matrer Wtich ls raised or Forced over the FTelm by
thie Fire. THac Clals also Wtich is extrausted 
Rir BY NII. BoyLS Rir-Pump, and Wvichin wvhich ans
Animal, OxcMHer Bodies, are included ro make P.X
Periments upo is by him ulually called che H
RECIPKOCAE Figures in Geometrr, are suct
as have the Anecedents and COnseGUCHES OF LI
tere A: B::
Thac is, 25 much longer a5 che Side A in che
Tirst Rectanele, is then B:: (0 much deeper is the
Side C in the second Rectangle, than the Side D
in ihe first; and consequendr che Lensth ot one is
compensared by che Depth of the ocher; and ali0
as the Side A is Z longer than che Side C, (0 che
Side B is one Ath longer chan D. Wheretore che
Rectanoles mustnecds bc equat
And Fhis is che Foundation oFrhe Catholick Theo-
rem; Lhac the Rectansle of the Extreams must al
vays be equat tothat of the Means: And consequent-
Is che Aealon ot che Aule es Threc, or Colden Kule, Imon Bench, Eoc che lendins ot a Record iouchine