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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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First Stalso.
AnC. )Dd. M. j Ch. LII.
lL
25 00 20 7
37 00 l 8 10
6700) 9 85
10T 00 10 80
137001. 7 00
262001 6 70
31600 13
70
354 00 l24 50
The Distance berreen the rvo Starions A and B
i5 31 Ch. 60 Lin.
Second Sration.
AB. J. D. M. j Ch. L.in. )
+
3,30 4, 20
j. 2TF, 00) 7 00
145 00 15 60
A. 120500l. 8 48
M
122000]115 00
274 00l12, 20.
PoProcract chis, dran a Riphe Line ac adren-
cure, as P A. B B, whercon set, trom vour Scale
3r Cb. and 60 L intes (the distance betveen therwo
Scations) mabins Marts wich che Compasses 25
A and B For rour sirst and second Scation.
Lay che Protractor co A, the Norrti-end oF che
Diameter beins corards B, and mark ont rhe seve-
ral Angles oblerred at jour Arst Scation, dra
Tines, and sec of che Distances measured.
Doche Tame ac B, che second Scarion; and wotien
rou hare marked out all che Distances becween (the Diameter lvins upon che Line AB) prick oA
those Marks, dram che Bound-lines.
Note, TF a Field be very Trregular, you may at
ter che Came manner makre 3, 4, Ox 5 Sta-
tions, il ron pleale: Tho ris muchbetter t0
Scale; then dra che Boundins. Lines; and rou
80 ronnd such 2 Field, and Meature che hare dones
Boundins L. InCS.
4. Totalie the Plor os a Field at one Sration, in an
Ansle (so that from that Ansle you may sec al the
otber Angles) by Measurins round about the said
Fiele.
Suppole AB C D F he Field, and A the Angle petousich rou cannor lee ro cake chie AnBleS,
appoinced for che Srarion.
Place poux tastrumene in A, aud cum ic ronne
eill von see (chrongh che fixed Sizhes) the MLark AL
B; chen sere ic fast, and rur the Index ro C
oblerrins whar Deorcesare chere cur on cheLimb,
iutich surpose 10 BC 68 Degices; tuen ic turcher,
rill rou sec D, and Nore donnche Degrées chere
cuF, viz. 76 Degrees; dothe like at L, and ehie
Index Will cue r2a Deorees: This done, Meature
round che Field, Prorins donn che Lensih oE chC
Side. Lines berween Arple and Anele.
Then jour Field. BO0K mis stand ebus.
Lines CIL. Lin.
124 00
AB 14, 00
BB 15 00
C. Id 7 Oc
DF 24 40
A 14 0
7 Prorpacet ntiet drav che A B as vou please;
and applvine che CenteF OF THC PTOITACTOF, E A,
ihie Angles, and make Martes chrouxh which drav
Lines AC, AD, and A P, in evhich rou may snc
the Poines C, D, P, by che Meatures taken, a5 vou
hare chem in, vour Fiela Boole, and coken ot 2
5. Po take the Plor of a Park, Wood, a very sreat
Common, or a larse Champain Field, by soins
round about the same, and matine Observations u
every Ansle thereos.
LeT ABCDEF G BC a large Fieta Or Nood,
bue mule be lorced lo Bd od l la.
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