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

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  1. GRAPTIOIDES, is a Process like the Pen FOF a ] draw them donn cowards che FarIH. See Cilbert
  2. Table B0ok, about che Basis oF the Brain ic inclines and Rircher de Maenete.
  3. backvaed.
  4. GRAPNEL, i5 2 Kind OEAnCHOE FOF BOAES OK
  5. Gallies co ride by, ther differ from ocher Anchors
  6. in chac chey have Four Flukes and no Snack, tho
  7. chereare some with chree Flukes, wich wwhich chez
  8. use ro sncep For Flalats, or Imall Cables: In Men
  9. oF War al(O chese Grapnels, Ox ac least a lighter
  10. Hind oEthem, are used EO BC FhEONN intO an FinC.
  11. mies Ship, in order ro carch hold ot lome ot hec
  12. Orarings, Rails, Cunvales, (9c. this is done in
  13. ordex roboarding ot her.
  14. GRATINOS in a Stip, are (mall Ledges ot
  15. Taed Plank Framed one into another lite a Letrice
  16. or Prilon-grace, lyins on che Vpper-Deck berween
  17. ehe Mlain-mast and L’ore. mast, serving For a DC
  18. tence in a close Fighe; and also for ihe Coolness
  19. Liehr, and Concrirance oF che Ships Company.
  20. There is allo another Grating in the Hlead oF
  21. Ship, Where che Necessary-FTouse Rands.
  22. GRAVE- ACCENT, in Grammar, Mews Wwter
  23. che Voice, is 10 be depiessd, and is exprels d ilius
  24. GRLAVEDO, the Pame with CoryZA.
  25. GRAVEL L ED. ASHIES, are the Lees OF WVin
  26. dried and bume co AMtes: S0 chac chey ate a vin
  27. ot Calcined TarFAE.
  28. GRAVINO oF a Ship, is bringins her sirst a
  29. ground and then burnins oR (wich Rceds, BroOri
  30. C3c.) al che Filch and Foulnels that sicks r0 her
  31. Dides wirhout-Board, in ordexro pay her anew.
  32. CRAVITAS Aceleratrix. Sec Vi, cencri
  33. peta.
  34. GRAVTEY, oras it may Be called, ehe Vis Cen
  35. Tripeca, i5 Thac Oualiey by wrhich all IIeave B0
  36. dies rend coards the Centre ot the Parrh, acce
  37. leracins cheir Morion as cher come nearer romards
  38. in and ehis Admirable and Oniversal Law ot
  39. Tacure, is ehac which (generally speakins) Keepe
  40. all Bodies in chose Places and Scarions, wohich chey
  41. are desixtied For.
  42. AbOuEche Cause OF this preat and Cacholick AF
  43. Eection ol Macrer, rhere have been various dem
  44. timents.
  45. I. A oce Wn iave alI Farthy Bodies, by an
  46. cural Inclination ro rend rorards che Centre of chi
  47. Farth, as to cheir proper Place, Sub Concavd Lunae
  48. Bur ic hath been proved over and over, thac chero
  49. is no luct chins a5 Positive or absolute Cravitys 0
  50. Levitu.
  51. 2. Copernicus asserrs Graviey 10 be an HIIItale
  52. Principle in all Ehe ParIS OF Mlatrer When they are
  53. by any meansseparared from their WVholes, EO re.
  54. duce chemselres chicher again che nearest way, o
  55. in Righe Lines. Buc chis is not to asion any PhyR
  56. cal Cause oF chis grear FHect, but oniy c0 Cay B0.
  57. dies descend, because cher are heary, or because
  58. eher descend.
  59. They also chat explain Graviey by Universat At.
  60. traction, do onts sire us anocher Word, i no I
  61. dea ot che Cause ot Craviry.
  62. et, Or Conastone, conchuans senus ou Mastie
  63. 4. Des Carres supposes che Parricles oF his Cele
  64. Aial Macter, by beins restected trom the Surtace
  65. oE the Farth, and consequency ascendine up again
  66. Fromchence ro drive down inro rheir PlacestheL er
  67. restrial Bodies wtich chey sind above them, Sect.
  68. 20, 21, 22, 23. OF his Principia Philosoph
  69. Buc Eis very difficule eo conccire, and, L chink.
  70. implies a kind of Contradiction, chat Bodies Moule
  71. be forced donnvards, by a concinual impulse o
  72. Orher Macrer cendins upvards, and actins upon all
  73. Pares unitormly and equally
  74. The Ingenious Mathematician MIP. K eill OF Balict
  75. Collere, Oxon, hath also susficiently overchromnchis
  76. Aypochelis in che Prelace c0 his Inrroductio ad P y-
  77. sicam.
  78. 5. Vossius and some orters, will necds have eI
  79. Divenal Nlorion OF chie Farth round iES ANIS, 1O bC
  80. the Cause oF the Delcent or Feavy Bodies
  81. Whereas ris demonstrable From ExperinienE, ane
  82. the Doctrine oF the LaWS OF Mocion, THaE MHC
  83. Reverse oF Grariey ould chence ensue. FOr 2I
  84. Bodies morine Circularty de alvays endeavour ro
  85. receede ab Axe Morus: And allloose Bodies wonle
  86. then be cast of trom the Farrh in a PangenE EO LHC
  87. Parallet ot Lacieude oF any Place.
  88. Will have che Presture ot the AEmOIphere LO OCCA
  89. hion Grarier, or che Delcem Ot Licabs Bodies
  90. Buc ris plain, by Experimenes made in vacuo, Lhac
  91. the Aemosphere, likce aIl ocher Flulus, aotn hinder
  92. the Descent oF Hleary Bodies, racher chan further
  93. them or cause chem: For a Feather in Vacuo vill
  94. descend as fast a5 a Bullet or Sione in che opeu
  95. Air.
  96. vour oEchis Fluid to derrude all Larchly Bodies
  97. rom it, may by chac and lome orner Propees
  98. make all Bodies more rowards ine Cee ot he
  99. Farch. And he Cairh, He Can prOve BY HNIAHY LX
  100. Perimenes, Thacchere is luch a bluid. BuE CAIS
  101. Opinion appears ro be delcettre o e lane AC-
  102. connechat ie Cartesian is; Wliich lec.
  103. Fralley, owns Grarier to be an Efect unsolvable by
  104. ans Philosophical Hypochelis, and Modestiy anid
  105. Relisiousty resolves it inco che immediare Will Ot
  106. our AIL. vise Creator; Wrho by appointins chis LaW
  107. chrouphour all. che Marerial Worid, Keeps all B0-
  108. dies in their proper flaces and stattons; Winei
  109. wirhouc ic ould soon fall ro pieces and be urteris
  110. destrored, Philosoph. Fransact. L. 197.
  111. Absolute Gravity, 15 the whole soret b) WMlen any
  112. cical Fduria, Crhieti lay hoid on o, atia) Bodx cends donnwacas; buc che Relative ot Vul
  113. 821.
  114. 6. Ochers, mistakine he Fssect For che Cause-
  115. J. The Learned Dr. Hook, in his Micographia
  116. P. 22. Scems co chink char by suppolins our Clobe
  117. OE Farch, Air and Wracer environ d round wich a
  118. Fluid, verr Subeil and Fecerogenous ro them all;
  119. and wtich cah Freely perrade che Potes, Hor
  120. Sla(s, bur eren ot the closest Mecals. The endea-
  121. 8. The Learred Machematieian, Capt. Ldmuna
  122. 3. Cassendus and Repler, and many orhers, de
  123. sine Craviry eo be a Morion impressed on aIl Bo-
  124. dies, by a cerrain Magnerick Atrraction oF che
  125. Larch or Ibbe, towhich any Body descends.
  126. Thele will hare the Farth eo bC one Great Mag
  127. NIT. Nemton, Book 2. Prop. 19. Corol. 5. Obserres
  128. Contines ot any Lluid, there is a cwstold Gravity
  129. The one True and Absolute, the otter Apparent anc
  130. ulsar and Comparative.
  131. very vell, chac oF all Bodies considered wichin che

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