# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0715 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0715?run=74 # Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71) # Folio - , page id 806933011:0715 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=715 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000715.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 92 lines, status machine # Lines: 92 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Then 1O the CO sine OF 23 30- Add the Tansenc oF 30001- Sum le(S Racius is che Pan. Of 27 53 19, 72383. Which is the Rishe ascension required. The same may be also found, by harins thepre sent Declinarion, (suppose rr Degrees 30 Minutes and che greatest Dectination 23 Dcorees 30 Mi nuces sivem. FOT, Asthe Tancent of the Suns greatest Declinati on, is to the lancent of his present Declination: 50 is the Radius, to the sine of his Richt Ascen- Sion. The Operacion sands chus: FOThE AF. CO. OF the FAn. OF 23 30- 0,361698 Add che Tansenc oF 1F 301 --- 9, 308463 Sum addins che Radius = 5. 2753 19, 670161 RIOTIT OF Direct Sphere, is thac wtich has he Poles oF the Woridin its Hlorizon, and the L quatOF in the Zenich: The Consequences ot livins under Tuch a Policion, (as thole which lire directly under the Line are in) is char they have no Lacitude, nor Fleration of che Pole. They can sec nearly borh Poles ot the WVorid; all ihe Scars do Rise, Culmi nate, and Sec wichchem. Andche sun alvays riles and descends ac Ristr Angles co their Hlorizon, and makes cheir Dars and Nishis even; because che Horiron bisseets che Circle of his Diurnal Rerolu- tion. T0 sind the Risht Ascension of a Planet, or Scar cha hath Latitude, use this Proportion. AS Co. snre oF the Scars Declination istorhe Co. sine of irs Distance from the next Fquinoctial Poine = : 50 is the C onsine oF its Lacitude, t0 che C0- sinc OF iES RighE ACcenSIOM. RIOHT Muscles OF he Head. See Rectus In. ternus Major Co Minor; Wtichisec. PIOTIE Sailins, is when a Voraseis pertormid On Pome one of thé Four Cardinal Points. IF a Strip Pail under cheMeridian; chacis, on che Norch or Souch Points, Me varieth nOc in L ongi cude ac all; bur only chanseth che Lacicude, and chat just so much 28 che Number oF Deorees MC Bach PAN. TF a Strip Cail under the Equinoctial upon che Veer Lalt Or WV est POIMES, e altereTA NOT HeF L a- ricude ac all, bur only changerh the Longicude, and thac just (o much as the Number oF Degrees MC Rath run IF the Strix Cail directly BaC OE WV est under any Parallel, Me chere alto alrereth noc her Latitude, bur onlr che Longitude; Vet nor accord- ins eo che Numbes OF Degrees ot a preat C ircle Me hach Cailed, as under che Equinoctial; buc more chan (o many, accordins as the Parallelis re- moter Fromthe Equinoctial roards the POlC: FOF che less any Parallelis, che srearer is che Ditterence Ot L ongirude. R GFIT Sine, che Tame wich sine; Which sec. RIGOR, is a Vibrarion and Concurtion oF che Skin, and Muscles oFthe whole Body, accompani- ed wich Chilnels. RTGORODS Way oE explicatins Raretaction 15, 25 iE is called by the Noderns, char which is made uleoF in rhe Peripareriek School; wtich see under Rarefaction. RIM, in a Wacch or Clock, is the Circular Parr oFrhe Ballance chereot. RINC Dial. Sec Dniversal L quinoctial Dial. RINO, oF sacurn is an Opacols Solid, Circu- lar Arch and Plane, like che HTorizon of a GlobC, OF Macrer entirely encompassino round che PlaneE aud ne where couchino ic; ies Plane is ac this Time nearly parallel co che Plane of our FarrtiS F- QuatOr: The Diamerer OF EhiS R ing i5 2 Z OF Sa turns Diamerers, and che Diltance OE che Rinx Crom che Planec, is about che breadeh oF che Rins IE SCIF. Calileus frst discorered the Figure OF Saturn nOx eoberound; bur char che tnequaliey as chus in the FOrm ot a Rins, MI. AuSens LIH Founid out and publimed in his systema Saturniana, 1659. Tis Ehis Rino, and ies various Pohrions in respect RIOHE rhe Helm, a Sea Phrale, used by him oF che Sun, (Wwhose Lishe it reslects litre the Body thac Conds r0 the Man ae FTelm, ordering him t0 keep che Helm eren wich che Midale oF che Stip. OF Saturn ic selF) and ot che Fiye oF the Spectator, utich occasions all che varioUS AppearanCeS OF Sa curn wich his Ausae (a5 ches call chem) oc wict RICHE Linc, is che nearest Dillance vetweem none, vich Broact, or narron ones, 8c. ary cuo Points. See Line. 9.962398 9. 76(439