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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. LS as Lo HC Cocurion oF chis FarHL eF ours, ic ) by cho lublequene deraction ot Comets, rheir Plains
  2. is necesorily required chac chere Mould. be Scas,
  3. chac frotn ehem ralt. quanciries of Vapours beins
  4. may be inclined ro one anorter and disterent; a5
  5. ris cerrain; de facto, chey noi are.
  6. OE. Grepory in his Astronomia Phys. 6 Geometri-
  7. ea Lib. 5. Mers, Thac ihie Anciene AArOnOMeFS
  8. and Philosophers beliered Comets eo be very FC
  9. centrical Planers rerolvine vound the Sun; ane
  10. chat ic was che Peripaterick School Which bronxtie
  11. ux the Norion os cheir beine nochine buc MeteOrS
  12. and belon che MOOn.
  13. Cassini obserred oF. the Comet ivhich appeared
  14. inche Tear 268O, ThAF it WaS bUIE 22 Or 23 Deprees
  15. trom che Sun, and yer eo us appear d eo hare halt
  16. s
  17. s Globe illuminared, Or nor to be cirher falcared
  18. ox eibbous; Which al(o W 25 obserred BF the ComeL
  19. in che Month oF Aprili 1665; arid Trom chence HC
  20. concludes justly, thac chole Comers evere ae etar
  21. eime ror only higher rhan ehe Mon bue also chan
  22. rhe Sun himselF; because Mercury and VenS 2E
  23. chac distance from che Sun do nerer appear tuil,
  24. buc wrhen chey are lo.
  25. The Came Person chinks ic is roo ram in the NIO
  26. dern Philosophers ro condemn as false and. ridieu
  27. Nous, che Norion rhar hach been long received ot
  28. che bad Prelaxes etiComers; For he lairh, TF thre
  29. Fail ot a Comet Mould be intermine led with our
  30. Ainolphere, or it ehie Marter oF ic Tould; Dy ils
  31. Graviey, FaII donn uxon our Parch, ic nioy in-
  32. duce changes in our dir, that may be very sensI
  33. Tite and Beins oF all chine, Comes chiessy trom ble amons Amiinal. arid Vegitable Bodies. Astron.
  34. P. 408.
  35. Anid p: 412. he Bews che ay ot dererminine
  36. ihe Nay and apparene Place ot a Comet. And
  37. runmins ouc ro aftord Marrer 1o produce che Tail, p. 418. From tour oblerred Places ot a Comet i0
  38. the Sun) do sron more narrom and conrract. ana ac p. 42r. he sires che mechod ot determi
  39. ed,; bur atcer chis, 25 the Comets recede From nins ehe erue Prajectory oF a Comet; AE p. 446.
  40. them; and p. 447. 1o And che Inelinarion ot che
  41. Plane ot the Comets Orbit ro chac of the Fcliprick.
  42. jectory, and co derermine che Fleliocenrrick and
  43. Geocentrick Place of ehe Comet in the Trajectori
  44. decermined by che Nechod Belore given, tor any
  45. siven Time; as allo co makre necessary Pables For
  46. readilus sndins che Places ot Comers. FrOm p. 148
  47. 10 460.
  48. The Famous Fames Dernoulli in his Systema Co-
  49. Been sposteins, at equal distances trom ehe Sun metarum, An. 1682, Suppoles, Thac there is Tome
  50. Ee concludes cheresore, hat Camers are a kind trom his vast distanee, or lnallHess nor 10 be vi
  51. Sible ro us, bur homerer io have ae various di
  52. sances troni him, several Sacellires movine round
  53. tim (chouph none descendine (0 lon as ehie OrbiE
  54. Ot Saturn) and chac chese becomine visble ro us
  55. ivten ehies arc in chieir Perixaum, aec vnac ve
  56. Call Comets.
  57. COMTTATI es Castro Commisso, is a. Neir
  58. Sturif
  59. GOMTTACE Commisso, is L Wric, Or Coiri.
  60. miltion, Whereby rhe Sherist is authoris d torake
  61. uxon him che Command of che Courey.
  62. COMITLALIS Morbus; the Pamie vich Fpi-
  63. exsia.
  64. COMMA, is one ot che Poines or ScopS aled in
  65. railed by rhe Fleac ot che sun cher. may cicher
  66. sacher inco Clouds, and elien Fall down in Rair
  67. ro moisten and nourist the Whole Farih, and 1o
  68. render it Ferrile; or. else (a5 some Philolophers
  69. chintc ich sood reason) beins condensed. by ehic
  70. cold. Pops ot Mounrains and Flilis run donn tron
  71. chenee, and torm Sprinss, Lomcains, and Rivers;
  72. (o lor the. Conservarion t ihe seas and Moisture
  73. Ot, the Planors, Cometsileem necellarily requitie
  74. from Whole Coemell fexhalarions and Vapours
  75. 2II char Moisture which is consumed in Vesitari-
  76. ons and Purresactions, and curned into dry Parch,
  77. a) . decrees be Comually. re supplied and re
  78. cruied: FOr. all Vegirables do enctrelr pro ind
  79. encreale trom Liquors, au uen as eo cheir ereat.
  80. est parr do curn by Purrefaction inco dry larrh,
  81. com ot. Pucretvins LiguorS. From hence the Ovan-
  82. uey or Bulk ot dey Latiutaue concinually en
  83. and a Slime perperually is precipitared ro che Bor
  84. creale, and che Liquors or Moisture ot our Globe
  85. continually decreale, and ac last be quire evapo
  86. raled. and solc it cher hact Hol as concinual a Sup.
  87. es lcom lome parr or orher ot ene niverle. Anc
  88. 1.40 allo lulpeet (laith our Au) char chac spi-
  89. rit which is che sinest, subrillest, and best parr ot
  90. oux Rir, and which is necellarily requisire ro etie
  91. Comets
  92. The Aemosphere oF Comets, as ther aced 1O.
  93. wards ihe sun, are sensibly diministed: by Cheir
  94. rigbely obserred che Phaenomona. Bur thoy appede
  95. least oF all. wtien che Fleads oF che Ciomees havins
  96. mets Peribelia) blaze oue inro those vastly prear
  97. and brishe Minins Pails, and When the Nuolei be-
  98. ins. perhaps corered vich a black chiek Smoak
  99. are covered by the lorver parrs of the Aemosphere
  100. For all Smoak is greater and mon Maba and
  101. chick When theFlear is very preat.
  102. Thus the Flead oF chac Comet of which le have
  103. in November it was like one ot the First. or. Second. Orbis; ehis Prirriary Planet he suppoles cictiex
  104. Ot Planets movins round ehie sun in very excenrri
  105. cat Orbirs; and as chole Planers wrhich are near-
  106. est the Sun, and revolve aboue him in lester: Or
  107. biis,, are losser chan orhers, Poi he suppoles thcte
  108. Comets Wtich in rheir Peribelion come. vers lea
  109. the Sun, are lelsthan ochers, and letolre in lesser
  110. Orbits
  111. IF a Comet in irs delcenr ro, or alcent trom ttie
  112. Sun, approach near co. a Planer a5 ic palles by;, Whereby che Charse ol a Counes, rogeitier wirt
  113. ond irs elain be disserent srom chac in which che) che keexine ot a Casle is commiered 10 che
  114. Planere move, by ies artractire Porver ic will. 2
  115. Grecably. eo the universal Law oF Cravicarion oF
  116. Bodies dran ic. from ehe Plain in wrhich ir betore
  117. moved, and so cause ic afceruvard eo move i
  118. nem one, inclined ro the former, bur pans
  119. chroveh che sun as che former did.
  120. Pience ris possible, Thac. thouph elie Planers or
  121. and leerrainty in chac pair which loots roards decermine irs Trajectory, il ic vere Rectilineat
  122. the Sun, when they do noc eun our (o much he lhes hou co snd che Position of che Bodies ot
  123. inco che Pail, cher aro enlarced, il Flevelius hach a Comers Orbir, and when che Comet will be in
  124. been (o exceedinely heaced by che sun (in the Con And. atter ehis he Cers hou ce correct che Pra.
  125. and che. Farrh axpeared more oblcure atrer rhe Primary Planer revolvins round che Sun in che
  126. Peribetion chan betore. For in December ic appear- space oF 4 Vears and (57 Days, and ar che dictariće
  127. ed bur like a Scar os ehe 3d Magnieude, Whereas trom him of 2583 Semidiameters of che Magnus
  128. sinallys rerolved in che lame common Plain, zec) Vricinsi and ischus mashed (,) ane is chelentt

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