# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0755 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0755?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 806933011:0755 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=755 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000755.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 199 lines, status machine # Lines: 199 recognised, mean confidence 0.85 # 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. Proportior 25 45 36 10 VII. Fo find the weicht of any Flonting Body; +ho never se great, by lnovins bat part of il is un- der Water. Suppose a Strip Chould have under WV acer a ParE OF its FTull egnalt 20 200000 Cubick Feer, I chule Tuch a ronnd Number to aroid Fractions, (hor 10 find the Content of rhe Part, OF a Strip, chac is un- der Wacer, dorh noc belone co chis Place, but ic may be casily enough done by one versed in Colid Menlurarion). Tis found by Experience, chaca Cubick Foor of Wacer reixhs 76 Pound Troy, and Archimedes hach demonstrared, That as much WV a- ter as is cqual in bulk ro the parr ot che. Aoatins Body etiat is undet VVarer, is in Weighe equal 1O ihe Wrhole Roarins Bod7. Theretore tis plain, Thacro Polve chis Problem, rou need only Mulci- pIY 100000 bY 76, (Wtich i5 7600000) arid che Produet is che ireishr oF che Wwhole Strip in Pounds Froz. A T able of Specifict Gravity os Bodies in Proportion 10 Water, from Nr. Boyle. and my onon F xperiments. Amber 18 Allom Stone Ancimony (Hunsarian) Proporrion. 25 1, 04 101 2d 2, 10 25 2, 18 eC 25 4, 07 20 Ancimons Crude, wotuch Scemid2 a5 41 , 1 . 20 10 bc verr g00d Reculus, made ot chac above, and 2, as 6 3 c0 che common var Cinnabar ot ancimony BCzOaF StonC AnOcher A fine Orientalone AnOTHeF A piece OF Cast BFaIS Anold Brats C olet W ciehe (Macki d Y ab 8, 83 10 XXXTII.) A piecC OF hammer d BraIS Coral red Cherstat Cornelian Calculus humanus AnOtheF =AnOtteF Coco- Shei Natire Crabs- Fres Arrisicial Crabs fires CaIX OF Lead Copper Stone Copper Ore Copper Ore Kich an old Coppex Llalt. Penne, (Charles 245 Coin) Common Cinnabar Cinnabar oF Aririmoriy Anocher Piece Coral white ChalK, Found by DF. Stare cO BC An old facobus ehe oot a SCat Cranaciminera Grantae Boheinian A picce oE common Clals CMC- 25 2, 76 10 L Di ot a brovn colour Flximarices FngsiM A FIOnC IO SeF RaZOES ON An Iciclebroken Trom a GrOTIO, Found by Dr. Slare t0be Trorr A pieceoFburne or roasted Tron Ore 25 3 5 10 A piece OF hammer Tron (pertraps 25 7 5 E0 PaEE SceCI) Lapis manati Lapis La2uII Lapis Calaminaris Lapis Judaicus Lead Ore Lead san ordinary piece) ANOTHeF Lead Ore From Cumbertand Ricl. A 500d Load. Atorie Anorher Marcalites =AnoTtex FrOm StalbrideC Nercury revired From rhe Ore Manganele Minerat (Cornist) strimine like 2 Marcasire Marble whire ORteocolla Peart (a larze one, Fine Orient Sccd Peart Khinoceros. HOrM Sulphur vive =Another very sine FroinCermani 25 1, 98 E0 L Stare (TriMI) 25 29 4910 A SilvertLa(E. Crovn (K NV. SCoin) 25 10; 75 10. L Silrer Ore, choicetrom Saxony Anocher piece A Wherone, nOF Fine, such a5 Z 25 2, 24 10 2 Curlers ule A round Bebble Hone (Wictiin 7 25 2, 6r 20 1 OE FlinE) Talc, 2 piece lite Lapis Amianchus 25 2, 28 10 1 Talc (Vencrian) Falc (Jamaican) 25 2, 75 25 31 New LngliM LIn OrC, NIF. Fuberes 25 4, 08 10 Tin Ore, black, rich Anocher choice Piece Tuty Lim ertato Vurum Anrimonii per se Virriol Angl. a very Anc Piece Onicorns-horn, a Piece FTuman Blood, NIE. Boyle Found Serum oF che Bl00d co Wacer, 9 as.. 302 10 253 he found cobe AIphaltum, NII. Boylem 25 7 10 25 1, 48 10 25 1, 64 10 a5 Y, 5310 25 1, 34 10 25 8, 66 10 10 2. 2Y 70 25 3, 29rC 26 F, 72 20 25 F, 47 10 25 F, 57 1O 15 5, 34 10 25 X, 89 10 25 2, 48 10 3, 94 10 15 10 26 4, 17 10 169. 20 7, 06 10 25 1, 23 10 25 2. 63 10 25 27 55 10 18 3 10 n 181 10 Scoren Coal Gold Orenot Rich From india Anocher lump ofche lame APiecCOF C0IaCM Ca5 17 5 10 25 3, 76 10 a5 2, 96 10 (2d F, 19 10 25 1, 91 10 25 2 86 10 25 2, 98 10 3 92 10 25 2, 69 r0 10 25 7, 54 20 25 4, 75 10 10 1, 45 10 25 4, 5010 25 14 10 15 3, 57 10 2b 9, 06 10 25 2. 25 2. 24 10 1 Y 10 27 75101 15 1, 99 10 25 4, 9710 50 a5 4, 1610. 10 25 9, 5510 5 4, 7C 25 1, 88 10. 5 L, 9Y +0 25 1 23 a5 19 14 F Oin