Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -
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- Under such N ords as Parabola, Fllipsis, Fyperbla; allo in che Conicke
- Sections vou ill find che Properries os cach Figure or Section demonstra-
- red, wich Methods tor cheir Delcriprion on a Plain; as allo che PrOPer-
- eies ot the Cycloid, Conchoid, Locarichmick. Line, Ciffoid, Ouadratrix and
- Spiral Lines, ecc. Some general Considerations ol the Nature ot Asimpro-
- tes, che Nature and Propercies of Catacaustick and Diacaustick Figures, Os che
- Involute ard P. volute ot che Linea Celerrimi Descensus, Scc. And under the
- Woro Construction, rou have che Construction ot Cubick and Biquadratick
- Equations by che Parabola; cogecher wich che Inveltigacion ol BaterS Cen-
- eral Pule, aud ies Ulc and Applicarion.
- Under Luch general Words as Trironometry, Surveging. Spherical.
- Geonetry, Projection, _c. You will Cind Encire Treatiles on chele
- Heacs; and which, it l mistake noc, are as Thore and plain, 25 any
- VeE exTaNE.
- In aleebra vou will mece under the proper Flcads, erery chins chac
- is ulually sound in Treariles ot this Nacure, and perhaps lomethins more.
- And under Fluxions ron hare a succinst Acconne ot the Nature and Algo
- rithm of chem, and Come Improvemenes which are noc to be had elle.
- ihere. And in lereral Places, under the proper H’ords, rouhave an
- Acconne oF irhat e nom callche Nem Methods, or Universal mays of Inve-
- Risation; as pareicularY, a Wethod ol draing oF Tangents to eII Ports oF
- Curves, 2 Mechod de Maximis es Minimis, oF findine che Centres of Cravity
- and Oscillation; ot finding che Unciae, _cc. AII che Pares also ol Common
- drithmetickare explained here, and ies Application to Anatocism. Compound
- Interest and Annuiries; coxecher wich che Doctrine ot Surds, the Mechod
- OE Extraction oF ROOES by Convergine Series, and che entire Doctrine ol
- Proportion, all kinds of Progrestion, Fractions, Logarichms and. Deci-
- mals: Ano lhare allo trom the best Authors L. con d ger, collected an
- AccounE O the Ancient Weiphes and Measures oF aII Pacions, and ad.
- justed chem with our oun; and hare siren rou very large and uletul
- Tables ot the Values of all Modern or prelene Foreion Weighes, Mea
- Tures and Coins compared vith our own. Ihave inserred alto trom
- Or. Wallis, a larse ACconne oF Sexaresimal Fractions. You will Fnd here
- aloche Descriptions and Ules of borh the Celestial and Terrectial Globe,
- the Doctrine ofthe Sphere, accordine tothe _em and OId LIypothelis;
- cogecher rich rhe Demonstration and Practice ol Spherick Projections in
- Plano; andmost ot che uletul chings in astronomy; as che Phaenomena, Pao
- ralaxes, Magnitudes, Mocions and Distances ot ehe Planets and cheir Patellites;
- and in parcicular, che Incomparable MI. Isaac Pemton STheoryof the Moon;
- and3 very larse Acconne oF Comets tromthe lame Ruchor: Tou will trave
- allothe Cirouna and Practice ot Dialline, ehe Dature and Use oF Opricks;
- che cakime all Fseishis and Distances; che Vensuration ol Surfaces; Craug-
- ing; he Arc ot Chromelosy, Geography, Cosmograpby, Musiek, c.
- Lele LL
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