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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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I. WVich MIE. Des Cartes, and Dr. FIo0k, he oblerVC
Tharmany parts hereotare oFa Regular Figure; For
the most part being as ir evere lomans licele Rowels
Or Scars ot6 Points; beins perfect anderansparen
Ice, as any one may sec npon a P00l, or Vessel o
Wacer; upon cach os Wwhich 6 Points, are set orher
collaceral Poines, and chole alivars ac che lam
Ansles, as ase rhie imain Poines chemiselves.
2. Amonest etiele Regular Figures, cho mans
ot them are larse and fair; vec trom chele rakins
oux Ars Tem, many octers, alike Regular, Du
Fac less, may litemise be discorered.
3. Arhonss ctiele, nor onir Regular, buE en
Parrs oF Sno, looting Nill more warily, we Mal
perceire, thac there arc divers ochers indeed irre
Gular, Wrhich ver are chiesy the broken Poinrs
Parcels, and Frasments oF rhie Regular OnCS.
4. That Belides the broken paris, there are
(ome others hich seem ro have lost etrelr Regulari
er, nor (0 much in beins broken, 25 by variou
Winds, sirst senely Thawd, and chen Froze ince
diucle irresular Clumpers again.
FTOIH lotience the ere Norion, and exCCIMal
NTatuTE OF Snow, Secmeth tO apPCAF, viZ. That
nOt OnIY lome seu pars oF Snom, buc orisinalIY
theprhole Bodr ot ic, or ot a snovr Cloud, is an
infinice Mass ot Icicles regularty Rgured; nOTone
Parricle chereot, I Cay, originally, not one oF 10
many Millions, being inderermined, ox irregular
Thac is eo Par, a Cloud ot Vapours beine sacher-
cd into DropS, the Caid Drops Forchivith de
scend; uxon which Delcent, mectins wich a Poti
Freering Wind, Or at least pasting chro a Colder
Region of the Air, cach Drop is immediar Froze
into an Scicle, Mhoorins ic self forrh into severat
Points or Stiriae, on each FTand Fromward its C en
rer: Bur Aill continuine cheir descent, and meer
ins rich some sprinklins and incermixins Cales oF
Warmer Air, or in cheir continual Morion and
Wattase to and Fro, rouchins upon cach orter;
Tome are a sicele chaw d, blunced, frosted, clump.
erd, orhers broken, bur che most hanked anc
cluns in sereral Parcels rogecter, wotich we cal
FlankS OF Snon.
Trbeins Hnonn whac Snon is, ve understand
wotr, choughiescem co be Potr, ret ciscruls hard
Decause erue Ice, the inseparable proverty whereot
isto be hard; scemins only ro be Potr, becaule up.
on che Arst couch ot che Finger, uxon any oF irs
Charp Edges or Poinis, cher instaneli chaw; Or o.
chervise chey vould pierce our Fingers as so mans
LANCCLS.
Wrur adAHI thonch Snow be erue la, and 10
hard and dense a BodY, rer very lighe; because ot
the extream chinnels ot cach Icicle in comparison ot
ies breath. For (0 Gold, Wwhich chough oF all B0
dies it bethemostponderous, vet being bearen into
Leares, rides upon cheleast breath of dir; and (0
in all ocher Bodies, Where chere is bur licele Matter
concained ichin larse Dinto al fbs
no ocher Cale.
et uS nexr enquire inO iS Essential Nature.
Non comalie a fudement oF chis, is by consider.
ins, wal e Senerat Le et onon io, alla Co1
A5Tor chie Lisure ol snov, tis seneralls or
be lcen ot more than 6 Poines; buc it lo, chett 
OF8 Or 10 but 12. Ot M sC SNOOIS, do 10ma
OF by OnCCL THOIC HOBIS, as EHC AXIC-FTCC, anc
cles, jorned rosecher as chie cuo Whecls. Or MC
Tame Flexasonal Figure, and ot the same usua
breadch; bur continued in chickness and protundi-
1. Allchele are rare, the tist described beins che
general Figure.
AS For The Consiguration oE ortier Bodies We
Mall And, thac there arc dirers which have lome 
less, others a more near resemblance chererO. Ni
tre is formed as is commonty bnomn in lons Cy
lindrical Mhoors, 25 alto all Lixivial Salrs For che
most pare relemblins, tho noc perfectir, the se
veral Poines oF each Scarer Sciele oF Snom. Saltos
Fares-horn, Sal Mamoniack, and Poric ortier vola
ile Sals, besides cheir main and longer MOOIS
have ochers Morter Branched OuF FrOM Them; re-
semblins as chole che main, s0 chesethe Collaterat
Poines oF the snom, buc che Icicles ot Drine are
Rill more near: For in Salt os FTarts-horn, altho
the Collaceral Moors sand at acure Anoles wirtr
the Main, yet not by pairs ac equal heighe: And
in Sal armoniack, alctio cher stand Diametricallis
oppolite, or ac equal heighe; rer withalac righe
nor acure Angles: Whereas in che lcicles ot Drine
cher Rand ar equal Fleishes, and ar acure Ansleo
boch; in boch, likre ihole ot Snom. And ic is ob-
serrable, chac che Contigurarion oE Feathers is like
wvise che Pame. The reason whereot is, because
Fols harins no Organs For Fracuarion oF Vrinc
the Trinous Parrs of cheir Blood are cracuated by
che Flabir or Skin, where cher produce and nou
rim Peachers.
From Wtence it Mould secm, That every DrOP
ot Rain atoresaid, containins in ic selE some Spiri-
tuous Parricles, (25 trom the heistr ro which chey
are adranced, the prolitick Vertue ot Rain, and its
casie tendenes ro Purretaction, above ocher Wa-
xer, iS argie LHC) 40) aa MCCtNS Wich OrherS
in cheir Bescent, ot 2 Saline, and chac parclr Ni
Frous bur chieAy Vrinous, or ot an acido-alino
Tlature; che laid Spiritous Parrs are apprehiended
By them, and wirh those the WVacry; and (o the
wrhole Drop is sxd, Yer nor into auy indiserent
and irregular Mape, depriving cheir Spiricuous
varts oF cheir Mocion in an instant; bur accordine
he specitlen Lralule, Ot determinare portibilies e
che Saline Parrs, as che lculer, ris thus figured in-
Ehus much Cor che tinvernat Nacure ol Snon
parins che Tame wrich such Regular Ligures aS WC
Tee in atrets cnet oes, i cal Witere we see l
likee Contigurations, we may beliere chere is etie
likce Subject wherein, or the like FHicienE mberebs
bor chole and chele are made.
viz. That which is abore described: Rarelr ot dis-
Ferent ones, Which may be reduced chieAr 10 rvO
General Circulars and Hlexasonals, cicher Simple
Or Compounded rosether, more rarely, cither 0
ny Mort, Aender Cylinders, likre chole oF Nirre.
touchino upon ihe Center ot a Pair ot poinced Lci
Cocheness e Spnous, as lie Fenct al
AITO, how ic is Whitc, noc because hard; For
chere are many fote Bodies Whire; but becaule
consistins oF parrs, aUl ot chem sinsls rransparent.
buc being mixed together appear Whice; as the
Lllele Cs oeat unes Conaerea and
cleared, may add a lirele cortat great deal oF LighE
Wrhich ehe Fonourable MIr. Boyle, hath siven eo
che Hacure ot C00, che Aic, andt che Bodies
Cheteu
Bodies, Whether lotc ot Hald.
Parrs oF Froch, Olass, Lce, aud orher rransparen
I a MIEEIC Star.