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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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Bones Fogerher by a Membranc; 25 m. Intants, nC
Bones oF che Synciput, Wwith theOs Front
SIPHON, is a Tube, or Pipe OFOIa(S, Or HC
Eal, artrich is ulually BCME FO An ACure Anele, arC
hariris one L eg POEter Than che orher; ther are
freguently to draw oH Liquors our ol one Barrel,
Or Vessel, into anocher, wirhour raisins the Lces,
DE Orees, and are called Cranes. Somerimes
Cta(s Tubes, Or Pipes, tho Arait, are called Sy-
phons.
FOr the C ausC OF THIC FIMInE OF WVATeK, OF OrHe
Liguors, chroueh Syphons Or Cranes: Sec Fydrosta
ticks, Paradox 10.
STRINOF, is an Instrument wrtrich is uled ir
injectins Liquors into Nounds, VICCrS, Or an
dileased Parrs oF the Body
SYRINGOMATA, arc ChirurgConS Knives
erhichcher open Fistulas wvirti
STRTNGOTOMTA, is the InCIROn OF the Fi
stula.
SESSARCOSIS, it che Connexion oF BOneS B.
FIeM. Blanchard,
STSTEM, in Mulick, is THC EXTnE OF a Cer-
cain Number oF Chords, having its bounds rovard
the Crave and Acure, wtrich hach been differenety
decermin d by che ditterent Progrels made in Mu-
sick, and according ro the different Dirisions ol
ehe Monochord.
The s e  LCICMS, vas composed o
Four Tetrachoras, and one Supernumerary Chord, che
Whole manine Fisceen Chords.
ehie Farch by Obserrarion, promise chac he vould
explain a Syctem ot che World, differins in many
chines From any chen known, and vec exactly a
grecable to Mcchanical Principles. Wrhich System
he chere Cays, depends on chele chree duppoli
ciond, viz.
First. Thar allthe Fleaventy Bodies have a gr2-
ritatins ox attractins Poer tomards cheir own
Centres, Whereby chez accract noc ontr cheir own
Parrs, and keep them trom Ayins OA trom chem
buc al(o all orher C clestia l Bodies ichin cheSphere
ot cheir Actiriey.
Secondly, Thac all Bodies pur into a direct and
simple Motion, Wrill (o continue ro more Forvards
in à srair Line, eill chey are by lome orhet more
effectual Porer bene or deflected into a Morion,
Which deleribes lome Curre Line.
Thirdly, Thac chele attractire Povers are (0
much chemore porertul in operarins by ho much
chenearer rhe Body uroustirupon, is co their own
CenEreS.
AII which is abundantr consurmed in MP. Vaac
Nemton S Admirable Principia Pbilosophiae Mathema-
tica
SYSTOLE, in Anatomy, is the Concraction ot
the Venrricles of che fleare, Wvhereby che Blood is
Forcibly driren into the sreat Artery.
STSTOLE, in Grammar, is part oF the Pocrical
Licence, Whereby a lons Syllable is made MOrr:
SYSTEML properly is a regularordertr Collecti A5 in thac ol Virgil.
On, Or Compencon oFmans chines rogether.
Thus ile Solat ostem, ls che Acxresate Omon
or ordertr Onposition ot all thole Planees whicl
Tulerunt fastiata Menses.
SNSTILL, MAchiecture, I5 a Budins Where
the Pillars Aand chick, bur noc altsgether (o close
a5 in the Pychnostyle; che Inter-columniation, OrDi-
Aance berween chem, beins onty LVO DIaeTErS
OF che Column.
STZXOTE, in astronomy, is che lame wich che
Conjunction ofanr uvo Planets, Or Stars, Or When
therare both reterred ro the lame Poine inchellea
vens; or When chey are referred ro the lame De-
Pree oF che Eclipriek, by a Circle ot Lonvirude
pattins chcoustchem boch.
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SIT
Cicacrisantia.
iC un
STNYMENSIS,
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more round the sun as their Centre, in dererminee
Orbits, and nerer deviare Carther trom him than
eheir proper and ulual Bounas. And a
System  Philosophy, 15 d Regular Collection ot
ehe Principles and Parrs ot thac Science into one
Body, and a learins ot chem Doemaricallr, or in
a Scholallical Mechod; Weiscalled che system-
aticat a).  Conera diltineton to cheWay of Es
say, voherein che WVricer dellrers himselt morc
loolelr, casili, and modestiy.
LHC LCarned DP. HTook, did in the LCat 1s
t itic end et hus le ib Ploe hC MOTIOn OI