# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0937 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0937?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 806933011:0937 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=937 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000937.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 124 lines, status machine # Lines: 124 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # 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. eMTH, Or Vertex, is the Point in che Fea- vens, riphe over ones Flcad, being necessarily 90 Deorees distane trom the Llorizon ZELTITEI Distance, is the Complement of the Sun, or Scars Meridian Altitude, or whac the MC. ridian Alritude Wans OE 9O DCOrCCS. ZERNA. Sec Lichen ZETETICK Method in Mathemaricks, is che Analytick, or Algebraick war, Whereby che Na- ture and Reason of che Phins is primarily Invecti- saced and discorered. Z. FDOMIA, is a Figure in Grammar, wwhen an Adjectire, or Verb, agrecins wich a nearer Word, is alo by way ot Supplement reterred tO One Ore remote. Thuslairh Terence, Vtinem aut hic surdus, aut haec muta facta fit. ZOCCO. Sec Plinthus. times, precer neat. Fach Sion is dirided into 30 Deerces, (0 char che Whole makes 360: And chey besinto reckon ac the Fastern Incerfection oF rhie Eiguinoctial and Eeliprick, or ac the Vernal Equi nox, where cher place che Arst Poinc ot Aries; 30- ins on chence tO Faurus, Gemini, Cancer, _cC. 2nC When rou coune chus Formard on accordins co che ulual Order and Course ot che Siens, chey callic in consequentia, bur il rou conne backmards trom Faurus c0 Aries eC. they Cay, ris in Antecedentia. Origine vaschis. Ths Ancient Astronomers obserred the SUM sII his (apPATeNE) Annual Norion co describe alvay: one and che lame Line or Track in che Ilcavens North or che Sourh, as ant ie OHet LSaneES, They ZOETF, is a Square Member in Archirecture, Found, did more or less. And because ther obser- beins loer than ies Breadth, which serres ro sup- porr a Pillar, or any orher pare ol a Buildins, in- Aead oF a Basc, Plinch, Or Pedestal. Continued Zocle, is a kind of continued Pede- Stal, on wetrich a Scructure is railed, buc hach no Bale, or CorniM. ZODTRCK, is a Great Circle ot che Sphere, diridins ic into rro equal Parrs, curtins che A qua- ved che Sun co Chiftas ic ivere backards, chro aIl the Parts oF chis Circle or Parh, (0 chac in his Whole Vears Course, he vould Rile, Cmnalus and sec wich everr Poine ot ic: Phey diltinoui- Med rhe Fixed Scars which appeared in or nearchis Circle inco r2 Constellations or Divitions, Wrhicta chey called Siens, Because they Were MarKSEO di Ringuist wvhereaboue the sun was. These Signe tor in the Fast and Wek Poins oF che Llorizon. Ic cher painced ulually in che form ot Animals, and curs the Hlorizon and Rquinoctial obliquetr; ma- thence came the Word Zodiack; and the very mid- king rich che former, an Anele equal ro che Sun sl dle Linc oF ic is called the Peliprick, because che Grearest Meridian Alcicude in any Larieude; and Eelipses only happen wrtien rhe Moon also is in ich che Eguinoctial, an Angle oF 23030 Mlinures, chac Linc urtrich is che Suns grearest Declination. This is a Broad Circle, and chro che midale ot ic is deavn a Linc, called che Fcliprick, OrVia so- lis, the may otrhe sun, because chic Sun never de- viaces trom ic, in his Annual Morion; as che Pla- ners do aH more or less, (Whence it hach its Breacth.) The Zodiack, in che Globe, is marke d wich che Characters oF che Tvelre Siens, and in ir is found out the suns Place, wtrich is under nhat Star or Constellation he appears to be at Noon. By chis are derermined the FOuF OLarEerS OF the Tear; and accordinsly ir is dirided into 4 ParIS, and as the sun sees on here, he hath more or lels Declination, Norch and South. AlIO From ehis Circle, the Laricudes ot che Pla- necs and sixed Scarsare accounced, trom che Fclip- rick toards its POles. Andthose Poles are 23 Dcerces 30 Minures di stanc Fr. ImThe Poles of the WVorid, Or oF the L. quino- Atiat; and by. cheir Morions are the Polar Circles described. ZODIACK oF che Comers, Cassini hach obles ved a cerrain lract in the Hlearens, Wichin Whole Bounds (by many Obserracions) he hach found most Comets, tho nor aIl, cotccp. Thishe makie. 25 broad a5 che orher Zodiack, and markes ic wicti Siens or Constellarions like chac, wtrich are anri- nous, eccasus, Andromeda, Faurus, Orion the leset D08. Fydra, che Centaure, Scorpion, and sasit. tary. ZONE, in Geograptr, is a Space containcd be- commoniy reckond, viz. Lvo Frozen, tvo lem perate, and one Burnine Zonc. The Frozen Zones, are thole Parrs oF the Globe comprehended Bcheess The POlc MMMR LOLAL CH- cle; theretore one must be towards the Norch ehe orher cowards che South: The Frozen, OF Fris Horrh Polar Cirele, and the North Pole, contains Parr ot istand, and Normay, Lapland, Finmare, Sa- mojeda, Nova-Zembla, Creentand, and some ortrer In these Poles all che Circles ot Longitude which ard che Souch, Tins berween che Souch Polar are dravn chro che Zodiock, dorerminare, (25 the Meridians and LTour Circles do in the Poles oF che Circle, andthe Souch Pole, isnoc vet knon whe- cher ic contains Landor Water. The Temperate Zones are one on the Norrh side Ot the Equaror berween the Arriek Circle, and che IHc Breadrh of chis CMle, Or rarher Zone in Troxick ot Cancer; anocher on the souch side be- te FlCarens, is 20 Sesrees, lor berond 10 DC- eveen che Propick ot Capricorn, and the Ancarich orees Lcteus et 1bDexllesSouth, che Lacicude Circle. e leems co hare been diridea into 12 PaTES, SPACC Ot LAHH, CaC LICM MMCH The tno TrO. rick, nere happens ro be 12 Lumarions: Or itic alia LoPerries ot mmtal Boales, Iles ds Bealls Moon undet en es and Phales, 12.) Bircs, F es. Intects, 60. The Reason ot the a et us ee, and icc and never eo deriace trom this Pach cirher ro che cween rro Parallels; OFthese Zones thereare Five sid Zonc, rorvards che Norch, Wyine Becween the PaTES OF NortH CMCa. LIC LIId Zone, 10. Lorrid Zone, Or Burnins Lone, CtaS aIl TMat Dick. ZOOORAPHY, is a Descriprion oE the Nature ZOOTOUY NVorid) and as the Azimuch Circles do, in ehC Z C ch and Nadir OF no Plaret ever reactes. ehich chey call Signs) Oceduse while che Sun in 2 LCdt LMIIC IS FunnIHB M che Zodiack OP Feliv.