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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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votich reduced backrards to Pounds, Stillingo and, OF che ero Follomins, the LA is MIr. Collins, che
Pence, makes 12l. 185, 10= d.
REDOPLIEAIIVE Proposirions, are luch Wvhere
in the subject is repeated: THuS, Men, 25 Nen
are Rational; HinsS, a5 Kings, are subject to none
but Ooc.
RE- FNTRINO angle, a rerm in Forification
Sec Anele.
RE LNTRY, in Law, signities che retuminz
and recalcins char Possession Which we had lacelr
forsone: AS IF I make a Lease ot L and or Penc
Ment, L do TheresOrC FOreSO ItC POseHion; and il
do condition with che Lessce, Thac For non pay-
ment of rhe R ent ac the DaY, it Mall be la ful FOr
me eo Reenter; chis is as tuch as it l condirionec
otake 2gain the Lands, C9c. into my own Flarids,
and to recorer chePollestion by my oun lact,
withoue che actistance oE Fudse, or ocher Pro.
cels.
REFF, a cerm in Plarigation: Wrhen chere is 
Great Cale ot Wind, ches commonly roll ux pare
ot thic Sail Below, thac by chac means ic may bc-
come the narroeE, and so nor draw Po much Wind.
Anai chis contractine or ratins ux he sail, they
call a Reef Or Reefine the Sail; and when ic is done,
Ther Cay the Sail is Reefed.
AIIO, Woten a FOP-Mast is Spruns, ac they call
It, 2. c. cracke or almost broken in the C ap, chey
cut OH the lorver piece thac was near broken oAt
and ferting the orher parr, non much Morter, in
ihe Step again, cher Call ic a Reest TOP- Mast.
RFEVE, is to pur a Ropechrough a BIOck; and
2o pult a Rope out ot a Block is called Vnreere.
1n8:
qu.
REFLECTION, in general, is che reprels Or
reruen thac happens ro a morins Body, because ob
che meerine of anorher Body, wrhich it cannor pe-
nerrate. Thus che material RayS OF LigHE arC re
Aected rarions From such. Bodies as chey cannoc
Dals chroust.
REFLEOTTON, in MetaphysictS, MIP. Lock de-
2d Di. Clarts.
elic Wrindoir, Wherero placethe Restectins blass
fines ro be, Thar Norice which the Mind rakes ot
its own Operations, and che Manner ot them; by
realon whrereot there come to De Ideas ot those O.
perations in the Onderstandins.
REFL FOTIOH ofthC Rays of LishE. AIT. YsaaC
Nemton, Anding by Fxperimene chat Lighe Was an
Fecerogeneons Body, consistins oF a Nixture ot
differeney retrarisible RarS; and consequentr
concludins no Farther Improvement conld vell be
made in Optical Instrumenes in the Dioptrick way,
he cool Reftections into Considerarion, and relIS us,
chat by chCir help, Optick Instrumenes mighe Be
Beonghe to any dezrec os Perfection, il we could bur
sind a restectins Substance etich vould Polim 25
Finely as Clals, reflect as much Lighe as Clalstrans-
mis, and be formed into a Pacabolical Fi
Bure.
An Experiment oF which he made inthe Kind oE
a Cacoperick Telescope, (Wtrich I hare scen ac
Grestam Collesc) and by Wwhich, cho nor abore
EOFootlon, he conld (he Caith) discetn che Tori
al Sacellites, and the Phales OE Venus. Phil. Frans.
N. 8c
PFELEOTED Ray, OP Ray of Restection, is ThaL
as near che Cielins as vou can conrenienelr, pro.
vided ic be nor lo near a5 hal IhC CBIL OL LI
Tnches oEctie Ciclino, ac leas oF chat Cieline irticte
belones ro the Windoir ic sels; then from chac
Point crair a crue Meridian uxon a plane FTOri-
Zoncally placed against rhe determined Point in chC
cedus Me TeCtShC SAMS Rays to the roP oF 2
Windo, and eothar Meridian, sic an Florizoncal
Dval; buc invere ic P0, thac rhe Axis Or Seyle may
poine donnvard, aud be under elie Florizontal
Planc, accordins ro etie Eleration oF etic Pole,
RLFLEOTINCS, Or Restexive Dyals, are made
Dy L HIle Piece OF LOOKInG- Ma(S-Plate, duly pla
Windon will Badon etie Clals wrten che SuH IS
higt in Summer; luppole withim abou 1001 1a
Whereby che Refection is made uxonche Surtace ot
 reflectins BodY.
erhichi Serle must be placed rruly allo in the Plane
OF the Meridian; chen by etie help oF a. Thread
runming From che Centre alone che scyles find
Where thac Scyle ould cut rhe FlOOr, Ox any ocher
Place, il it vere produced, and drire a Nail into
thar Poine, and fatten allo a Thred chere lons e
nough to be extended ro any parr oE the Ciel
Ceiling, C9c. Where the DYal is drawn. This Clals
2
in5.
Fasten also anoxtier lons Thred ro the Centre ot
the FTorizontal Dyal, Wtrich ler ie it be exrended
Horizontallr, asthe Plane will direct, and exact1)
over every Hour line in order, whils in che meai
time rou extend che Thred which as Fastned 1o
the Nail in che Serle, 1o the Cielins, bur (0 25 il
mar touchi the ocher Horizontal Phred: Then
marke chac Point in rhe Cielins irhich che extended
Thred touchect, ard make more luch MartES
whereby eo draw the LTour-Lines upon the Ciel
ins; and do chis in like manner For the rest of the
TTOurS, FTaIEFTOurS, and Ouarters,
Then take all avay, and place rour Glats Io-
rizontallr; and because jour Gla(S hath some
Thicknels, place it a lirele under the dererminee
Poinx, rhat che Cenere oF che Gtass may De jure in
the imaginaer Axis, wtich goes ro the Nail; FOF
Whereloerer ron place ir, in thac ic will g0 erue.
Bur becaule ic mar be troublelome ro place an
TTorizontal Dyal Fast enough and exactlr, 25 al0
o End che Point arhere che Nail is tobe driren,
will sew vou anocher Herhod, which may bC
more casily practiled.
l First, Dram an FTorixontal Dral uxon che backe
OE Tome Table or Floor, and draw a Meridian
apon he Bay.board oF the Window, by a Fhrec
et perpendicular black Linc, passine chrough the
Point Wvhere rou incend rour Restectins Class Mal
be, and by a Plum b. L ine cranstare it From che B2y.
board 1o che Cieling. Take chenearek distance
betmeen che Glals and che Cielins; wich chis di
Rance come ro the FTorizontal Dral, and set one
end oE ic on chat part of che Axis Wvtere che ocher
vill just couchche Meridian; chac. Poinc in the AXis
mas be called che Glals Poinr; trom Wrhich exect
2 Perpendicular; and wrhere it curs the Meridian;
matie a Point, which will De che Eyuinoctial Point
trom Wrhich also creet a Perpendicular, wrtrich will
De a Fangent; chen ac lome distance on which side
OE the Lquinoctial Poine rou And most conveniene
crect anocher Fansent chere, tuvo Fangents wrill cue
The FTOur-Lines in POimrS, Wtieh may De called the
FTour-Points.
Then tam a CC MCTa. POInES
and the Eguinoctial-Point, and exrend ic trom che
Glassromardche Meridian, and where ic rouchect,
ees
Monta DC 2S ThI 25 CAH West be sround. POr the
Matit Et lte ns alete acc mans Mectiodo.. ) chac is che Siguinoctial. Poine uvon che Cielis 
La1.
First, derermine itie most convenient Poine in