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Bodies can chere more bur very Rowly, is nearty
asche Velocier ot che moving Body: Buc in a Hc.
dium Eree trom all such Rigor, 25 che Squares o
ehe Velociries, NeBt. Princip. P. 245. FOr bY thc
Action ot a Cviscer Body, there is conimunicaree
torhie Pame Onanriey oF ehe Medium, aGTCAFEF MO.
tion, in proporrion eo thac grearer Svitenels Or Ve
locier; and cheretore in an equal rime, (by realor
OE che greacer Ouanciry oF che Medium beins mo
ved) che Morion ill De communicared in a dupli
cate Racio: Bur che Rehistence must alvays be 
ehe Morion communicared, because Action and RC
actionare equally contrary.
EJe Found also the chinqro be erue by Experi
menr, in a Pendulum of 10 Fcet in Lensch; That
cheResistence asainst a Globe or Ball moving (vise
Iy in oux Air, is nearty in a duplicate Ratio of irs
Velocitr: But it it more Slorver, a licele greate
chan in FhaL prOPOrtION, P. 339
FIc tound also by makins a L eaden Bullet lvins
45 a Pendulum in a Vessel oF WVateF, thar the RC
Filtence oF Water in proporrion 1o AIT i6 2553.
Dr. Wallis hach an entire Dilcourse on this Sub
ject in Phil. Trans. N 186, where he premiles 25a
Lemma, Thac supposins all ocher thines equal, che
Relistence of Bodies is alays proxorrionable re
che Velocier; since in a double dégree ot Velocirs
chere is evice as much Air to bemored in che lam
time, (9c.
ASEO H aHerem HCMMCe WICH BodiesO
differene Figures will sind in passins chrough an
Nedium, NIP. IS. Nemton PrOVeS, Prop. 34. Theor
That it a Globe and exlinder wich equal Di2
meters be mored according ro the Direction ol the
Axis oF the Cxtinder, thac che GlobeS Rehistenc
Wvil be buchals oFche CyliNaCIS.
And in ne folloins Scholium, se heus wha
kind of Fisure rerolrins round an Axis, will gene.
tare a Solid chac Mall more in any Medium with
the least Resistence; and sires a hint of the DSe
atrer Subtraction, by drawins donnchenext Square
Ox Cube, (5c. and vrririns ic atrer che laid Remain-
det.
RESOLOTTON (in MathemarickS) is 2 MC.
thod oE Invention, Whereby che Frurh or Falshood
oF a Proposrion, or its Potibilier or Impossibilier is
discoverd, in an Order contrarr ro chac oE Synthesis
Or Composirion: For in chis Analyrical Method
the Proxosicion is propoled as alreadr knovn, gran
ced, or donc; and then the Consequencies thence
deducible are Fxamined, till ac lalt vou come co
Come known Truch or Falhood, or Imporibilier.
Whereos chac which as proposed is a neceltar
Consequence, and from chence justlr conclude the
Fruch or Impossibilier ot che Propolicion: Which
it crue, mar rhen be Demonstrated in a Synthericat
Mechod. This Mechod oF Relolurion consistsmore
in ehe Judsment, Penecration and Rcadiness of che
Finguirer oe Arrist, chan in any Parricular Rules:
Tho ThOsC OF AIGebTa are OF necessarr DSC, and 2
500d Freature ot Geometer in his Flead vill bc oF
Srear Adrancase co him in all manner of Inrestisa-
rionS.
RESORT, OF Restort, is a L au Nord, proper-
I used in a Wrirot Tait OE Cousenaze, as Descent i5
in the WVrit of RIgBI.
RESPFC TV compuri vice comitis habendo, i5 2
IVric for the respiring oF a SheritS ACCOUME, uxon
just occasion directed eo the Freaturer and Barons
Ot the Exchequer.
RESPIRATTON, araeuroi, includes boch In-and
Expitation, and is an alcernate Dilatation and Con-
craction of che Chest, Whereby che Air is taten in
by che Wind- pipe For che accension oE, the Blood,
and by and by is driven our asain vich other Va-
Porous FMuriums. The cause oF Respiration docs
nOt Seem rO consist in rhe Dilatation and Contra
ction oF the Thorax, a5 is commonir choushc, buE
in che Conrraction oE che Lunic, Which corersthe
uxper Parr oF che Oesophagus and che Wind-Pipe, a5
Far a5 its clolest Recesses. Blanchard.
Thereare mans Opinions abour che TIses OF Re-
spirarion: Some chink che chiet, il noc che sole
Desion otic, is eo cool and cemper the Heat oF the
Blood, and che FICarE.
Ochers will hare che Substance of che AIr FO seE
by Respirarion into che Vessels oF che Lungs co che
letr Venrricle ot the Ilcarr; noc only thereby t0
cool che Blo0d, but allo help generare aerial Spirits.
This was che Opinion ot Hippoerates, Aristorle, and
Calen.
Orhers catie, with more Probabilier, Respiration
to serre For che Ventilation oF che BI00d in chc
Lungs, in irs passase chrough chem, whereby ris
disburthened of many Excrementirious Sceams and
Supertuous Scrolicies, which are carried oH by rhe
Breath in Expirarion; (o thac the Blo0d may be
adrancaseous depurated, by whac is carried oA
by che Lmunctory of cheLunss.
In che Philos. Frans. NT 65, ThereIS a VerY PreHtY
Accoune oF che Cause and Nanner OF Respiration,
by che Famous Laur. Bellini.
RESPITE, a Word uled in TaW, For delar, FOr-
BCaFANCC, OF COnTIMManCC OF TimC.
RESELTE of Fomase, IS the ForbearinS OE HO-
mare, wrtrich onghE Ars OF aII co be pertormed by
che Tenane chac holdech by Fomaze; and ic hac
the most Frequent use in Tuch 25 held bY KniohES.
Cerrice in Capite, wrto did par into che Exchequet
every AEh Ferm; Tome sinall Sum oF MoneY, 10 bC
respited che doins of cheir Fsomace. Sec che Stat.
T2 Car. 2. Cap. 24. Wrhrereby chis is caten avay 2c
a Charse inciden or aritins srom Knisbis Ser-
Drce.
RESPON.
char chis may bc ot For Buildins os Ships.
Atcerchis, several Investisarions oF inC LIGUIC Ot
a Foundim Solid, which Mould more chroush a
Medium With che least Resistence, vere PubMIMa
Oyche Marquis PTospital, Bernoulli, and vets oest
and cledrly by Mr. John Crais in the Phil. Transact.
NV 208, Where he solres the ProbleM, lo deter-
mine ehe Curre, by Whose Roration round an Axis
a round solid tall be generaced, which beinq mo-
red accotdins ro ehe Direction oF thac Axis, Mai
have ile least Resistence in any Medium.
Reo Naturales: Nacural chings aIC LIC
FIcalth, EIR C auseS OF FTCaIEII, AHe AIS L.HCCLS. .
thers reckon Seren; a5 ce Bleents, lepera-
MeNES, LIUmOES, Spirits, Pars, Faculties, Actions:
buc Flehlents and lemperamenes belons to Nacu-
ral Philosophs; Flumiors, Spiries and ParES, are
reckonca amonss the Caules ot Hlealeh, Wrnich
consist of a 800d Temperature, and a due Confor-
MMaLIOH; Faculcies and Actions are comprehended
under rhe EHects oF Hlcalrh. Blanchard.
RFS Non naturales: Thinesthat are noc Natura
are SIX: Air, Meac and Drink, Morion and R est
Stcepins and Wakins, che Afections oE the Mind
Things chac are let out of, and Things recrained in
the Body. Ther are (0 called, becaule chatit cher
exceed their due bounds, ther otcen occalien
cales. Blanchard.
RESOLVEND, a cerm in the Extraction oFche
Square and Cube ROOrS, 5sc. signitring char Num-
vec ohieh arises srom alslam ihe Remoinde