# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0914 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0914?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 806933011:0914 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=914 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000914.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 116 lines, status machine # Lines: 116 recognised, mean confidence 0.89 # 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. Buc For che Pinion oF RepOrr, iF vou six ic on j compals, there hould lappen to be such double the Crear Whcel, it ill require an excessire num- bex; if ron six ic upon che Pin- Wheel, wtichis ulual, chen, by Rule 5, ic Will Cand ThuS, 13) 39 (3. che Duorient is 3, the Pinion oF RCPOTE 13, and the Conne- whecl 39. TF 10 any Clock it be required t0 siE Ouarters OK Chimes, _c. You may proceed rhus. .Tou are re consider, ThaE GMarters are Gene rally a distinet parr trom che Clock parr, Which Scrikech the Hour; and che scriking-nheet may be the First, Sccond Whcel. Cdc. accordins tO rout Clocks continuance; unto which Wheet rou may fix rhe Pinion OF R ePOTE. The Lockins-mheet must be divided into 4, 8, 0r more unequal pares, (0 a5 20 Arike che Ouarter, and lock ar rhe tirst Norch; or the haltflour, and lock ac che second Norch, (5c. And in doins this you may make ic to Chirie che GUarTerS, OF Arite them uxon trvo BellS, Or more. Tis usual for the Pin Wheel or che Locking Whcel co unlock the FTour-pare in chese ClOckS erhich is casily done by some jogu or latch, ac the end ot the last Ouarter, 10 lift ux the Detents ol the FIOUF-PATES. IF rou vould hare vour Clock Aritce ac che hal ITour, a5 vell as Wwhole NTour, rou must make ch Lockins- Wheel oFthe Hour- parr double; char is ir must hare cvo Norches ot à Torr, 10 Arike 1, 2 3, 4, 690. tWvice apiece. 2, AS For Chimes, Tneed Cay nochine ocche Lile ins. pieces and Derents, 10 lock and unlock; nOr ot the Whecls eo bridle chemotion of che Barrel3 onty vou are to obserre, Thac che Barrel must bc 25 lons in rurnins round, as rou are in Singing che Tune ic is co PlaY. ASFOr the Chime Barrel, it may be made ux ot certain BarS FhaE run achuare ir, wvich a conveni ene nummber ot FToles punched in them, t0 puc in the Pins chac are ro draw cach Hlammer. By chis means rou may chansethe Pune, withour chans. ins che Barrel. Such is che Royal-Fxchange ClOC) in London, and ochers. In chis cale, the Pins o Nurs Which deaw the Fammers, must hans donn From che Bar, lome more, lome lels, and lome standins uprishe in the Bar; the reason Whereot is. eo Play che Time oF the Tune righuly. For the distance of each oF chele Bars may bc 2 Semibriet, (90. OF which hereatrer. Buc the usual ay is, to have the Pins chAF dram che Flammers, Axed on the Barrel. For the placins ot which Pins, rou mar procced by che Way OE Changes on BelIS, viZ. 1, 27 3, 4, (dc. OF racher make ule ofthe Musical NTOTCS. Wrhere rou must obserre, wrhar is che compals OF VOUE Tune, or hon manr NTores Ox BellS there are trom the highest co the lowvest; and accord- ingly, the Barrei must be divided From end to nic ihe Barret. l alrided Mo d Lars. These Diri Notes on erery BCll, MMCall OF 8, vou must have MOrement, or elle rou may meature chem by che Bears oF a Ballance or Pendulum. 16 Flammers; and accordinslr, rou must diride Tour Barrem and Strike 6 Scrokes round it, oppo- sice co cach llammer tail. Lhen rou are ro diride ic, round abour into ae mans Dirisions, 25 chere are Mulical Bars, Semi- biets, Minums, Coc. in pour Pune. Thusche 0oth Palm tune hach 20 Semibriets and cach Dirition oF ic is a Semibriet. The first Nore otic also is a Semibriet, and Meretore on the Chime Barrel mustbe a Whole Dirilion trom 5105 as rou may understand plainly, il rou conceire the Surtace ot a Chime-Barret ro be reprelented by The tollowins Table, as il the Crlindrical Super- ficies oF the Barrel vere Arerch d out ac lengrtr or extended on a Plain. And then such a Table (0 dorted or divided, it ic vere co be wrapped round the Barrel, vould ew che Places etiere all che Pins arc eo Rand in the Barrel: FOr thC DOES Fun nins about che Lable, are che Places OC che Pins chatPlay che Tune. The Notes of che 100 Psalmo ALable for Di s the Chime Barrel for +h. 100 Psalm IE rou vould hare jour Chimes compleat in decd rou ouxheco hare a set oF Bells tothe 6a mut Nores; (0 a5 thac each Bell havins che true Wund oF Sol, La, Mi, Fa, vou may elay any Tune wichis Flars and Sharps; nay, vou mayby ese catto LId) CoThe BaIs and Lleble, Wes And by Setring the Names OF vour BellS ac the LsCac e an) Tune, rou may casily cransser chac Tune ro rour Chime Barrel, wichour anx Still in Luek. Buc obserre, Thaceach P. ine in theMu one Barrel sick is chree Nores distant; thac is, thereis a Nore between each Line, 25 wellas uponit. FhuS, M the FolloWMMS L XaMPS, CactEchose Funes are 8 Noces I Copals; and accordins). siOnS arC LCK Found che Barrel, opposice to which Jo Caloulate a Piece os Clock. WNorte char shall repre- ent any of the Celestiat Motions. T0 esect which, vou may cicher mate chole Motions le deend on che Work alredar in che are thellammer tails. Licak here, as il chere mas onty one Plamimer ro each Bell, char vou may more clearty apprehend rhrac Lam explainins. Buc when rvo Nores olche lame sound come losce a Fuu, there multbe hoverer concrire a Piece t0 50 a cerrain Time, rottammers ro chac Bell, 10 Srrike ic. Sochat, il wich a cerrain number oE Turns. in _ ihe Tures you imend 1o Chime, de d Nores IF rou vrould proceed che latter vay, vou must BDE