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

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  1. dener of che sina ll. Parricles oF Marrer torvards the, aster it is once excired by Rubbins and Chatins.
  2. Autractins Body.
  3. 2. Our Famous Siibert. Sir X. Disty, Cassendus
  4. Dr. Bromn, and many ochers, suppole char on rub-
  5. bins or chatine, che Flectrick BodY is made roemit
  6. Kays or Files ot an unctuous Nacure, Which when
  7. and doth noc cease in an Instant.
  8. 6. Flectrical Bodies auract all chines indisterent.
  9. ly, Wvhereas the Magnet deams oyly tron and
  10. Sreel.
  11. cher come eo be condented and cooled by the AM-
  12. 7. Our Excellent Nacuralis suspended a sine
  13. biene Air, do lolecheir Asiration, and chen Crink large piece of very Electrical Amber by a Silken
  14. back a5ain inco the Body trom whence cher Cally d Phread, and ihen had onc end ot ir rubbed Arons
  15. OuF, and by thac means do carrr alone ith them ly on a licrle Custrion, and then he found chac when
  16. Tuch lighe aud (mall Bodies ashappen e0 be Fastned che Amber as made ro hans persectir ac rest, il
  17. ox Rickine co their Furcher ends. Gassendus chintes
  18. also char chese unctuous PMuria beins emicred aII
  19. manner of ars, do decussare trequenely, or crols
  20. one anocher; and by chis means do take the betrer
  21. trold oF Strams, (8c. into whose Pores ches insinuate
  22. Themselres.
  23. 3. Des Carrez, noc beinss able to imagine char l0
  24. solid a Body as Clals was capable ot emirring FF-
  25. Auria; (tho ris certain chat tvo pieces ot Clals
  26. rubbed one against anocher will send Forth an un-
  27. pleasins Odour, Which must consist ot mareria
  28. FMuria) he had recourse ro the Operarion oF his
  29. Materia Prima For the Solurion ol Electricity; bue
  30. tre speaks oF ic doubringlr himselt, and unin-
  31. cellisibly co the Reader, as it appears rome; there
  32. Fore L Mallreter you ro the Place ir selF, Where il
  33. vou chint ic worth wrhile, rou may see whac he
  34. Taich ac larse. Vid. Cartes Princip. Lib. 4. Ch. 184
  35. P. 210.
  36. MP. Bople, in order to prove Flectricies co be
  37. Oualier which hach, litee all orhers, in Nacural
  38. Bodies, a Mechanical Original, hach siven us che
  39. followins Obserrations and Experimenes abour chis
  40. effect; trom erhence a verr 800d suels may be
  41. made, ho Electrical Aerraction is produced, viz.
  42. 1. Thac Electrical Bodies do nor at all, or at best
  43. but very rarely attract, buc when chey are marm d
  44. and cherebr Sollicired co emir E.Puria more copi
  45. CuRy.
  46. the Cuttion wras brouxhe near ic, tho noc to touch
  47. T, it vould plainsy makce the Amber rend corards
  48. ir, and follon ic. From Wwhence it plainly appears.
  49. hac ocher Bodies can draw ex move che Llectrick
  50. ones, 25 well as ther ochers; and thac ic is by ac.
  51. 2. Thar chele Bodies warmed only by the Fire,
  52. do nor actract (0 forcibly as cher will wvtien heaced
  53. ciderie only, and nor trom necestier, thac ihe (maII
  54. actracted Bodies βoro che Electrick one.
  55. by rubbins; tho it cher are Ars warmed ac the
  56. Fire, aud then rubbed atterwards, ther will ar-
  57. tract most spccdily aril porvertully. So chac HIcat
  58. Ceems necellarr in general ro put che parts into Agi
  59. ration; and rubbine or chatins in parricular, 10
  60. sire them cheir most proper Modificarion.
  61. 8. By many repeared Fxperimenrs he Pound chis
  62. Electrical Oualiis eo be Producible and DC.
  63. Aructible.
  64. 9. He Cound allo char a piece ot Amber did len.
  65. sibly acrract wwhen the Air ivas pumped ouc of che
  66. Receirer; Which contirms the Flyporhesis oF chole
  67. chac suppose actual serines or livrle unctuous Rays
  68. ro80out oF che Electrical Body.
  69. 10. He tound also char atter an Electrical Boc)
  70. had been vellrutbed, there was a cerrain Nick
  71. of Time in which chelighe Body rould instead ot
  72. beins attracted, be actually driven awar tromche
  73. Electrical Body, by che PMuria goins bristely our
  74. andnor vec recurnins again; Which much contirms
  75. che Hypochetis ot Gilberi, Dieby, Bromn, ec. men-
  76. rioned in N. 2.
  77. FLECTNTARV, is a Medicine oF a Consistence
  78. chicker rhan a Sytup or a Linctus, and composed
  79. OFhard chines reduced ro Powder, and accurarely
  80. mix d wich Syrups, Conserres, Floner, (90
  81. ELFOIT, is a Wric Judicial, char lierh For him
  82. chac hath recorer d Debr or Dammages in che
  83. Kinss Courr against one nor able in his G00ds 10
  84. Saristre, and direeted ro che Sheris, commandine
  85. him char he make deliverr oF haltche P’arries L ands
  86. Or Fenemenes, and allhis 600d5, Oxen and Beacts
  87. Ofche Plo excepted.
  88. ELEMENTS, is a Word uled bY Nacurat Phi
  89. losophers in the lame senle ulually as Principles;
  90. and by rhe Elemenes aud Principles, orascher lome-
  91. rimes call chem, the Elementary Principles, oF ana-
  92. 3, Tersian (as he calls ic) ox mipins, is almost cural or mix d Body, chey mean thole simple Parti-
  93. universally necellarr, 25 vell as Acrririon or Rub-) cles ouc of wrhich the mix dis composed, and into
  94. bing co produce Electricier; For chereby thesceams which ris ultimarely resolvable.
  95. Or LiMuria can the berrer ser our, when chere is no-
  96. chins cosop, up or choak the Pores oF rhe auractins
  97. Bod7.
  98. 4. The Magnerical FMuria will perrade aII
  99. manner ot Bodies Freely; ver the incerposition ot
  100. the Anest Linnen or Paper Wwill hinder che Opera-
  101. tion oE alI Electrical Parricles; Wnich scems tO
  102. contum cheir beins Comethins oC an unctuous N2
  103. Ture.
  104. The Nrord comes trom L, M, NI, chree OFthe L et
  105. cers ot che alphabet; and is allo Frequenty used
  106. For the Airst Principles or Rudimenes oF any Science.
  107. Thus the Propolitions oE Fuclide are called his Ele-
  108. menis, Decause cher concain che firH Principles o
  109. Geometer.
  110. ELEOSACHAROM, is Susar incorporated
  111. rith some Drops ot distilled Oil, 10 as to make the
  112. Dilmore casie and asiceable 10 be twallowed by
  113. the PatienE.
  114. FLFPHANCLaSIS Arobum, Ot WChthebrects
  115. eale nochine, bucche trabians do trequeny, is
  116. a-scin ro aVarix or crooked Svellins in che Veins
  117. Souch Windbloi, as Kircher asserrs trom his onn and procecds trom thence, and is onir a Tumour
  118. Eixperience. Puc ic alvays continues lome rime in ihe Feer. Avicenna treais oE elis Dillemiper.
  119. vrere
  120. 5. This ERect is very much weaken d if che
  121. Ncacher be thick and cloudy, and especially if che,

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