Leibniz Legible

Machine transcription of the Leibniz Nachlass

Search the Nachlass

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

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.89.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

  1. ole rhich are continued in che Lelendicu-) certtices) foreins chem alons rithit 1o che P’ex
  2. lar Inicerrals ofihe scrata, are Clnel Ich 25 are pendicular Interrals; Where harins more room
  3. and a srcer passase chan betore, ic deserrs chem
  4. and leares them in thole Interrals; and chacthis
  5. War aIl the Mineral and Mecallick Mecal nOW
  6. tound in chose Places, was broushr chirher, and
  7. chere dostill gro and increale.
  8. Bucchacchese in che Scraca do HOL, NOr CanHOE
  9. orou, but on the contraer, are continually les
  10. rened and diminished, by so much as hach been
  11. sucte as are distinsuimable by beins ol lome ob. conrered incorheir Perpendicular Incerrals, and
  12. Tervabe Figure; 25 che sparry Stiriae Or Fceycles,
  13. called Scalactosae, ex racher Stasonitae; he La
  14. rire Salme lccycles, ox Sob Stalactirum;
  15. eriolum Mlocticum Nativum; che Vitriolum
  16. Capillare; che aleren Scalactirum and Capillare;
  17. Minera Ferhs Scolactios, wtuch woten several. Ot
  18. the Crlnere Stiriae are Conrisuous, groins
  19. rosertier, is ic vere, in one cheat, is called Bruss
  20. Tron Ore; he Arrentum Arborascens and Caxillare.
  21. Tochele alle alo che chrya a
  22. necals, viz. The Tim, and Mundick Crains, che
  23. Tcon Rhombs. Cheystallis ed Nicre, Salt, AIom,
  24. Vicriol, aud Sulphur: OE which Corr allo, arc
  25. he Ciems ex Erones chacareheremur inco Cubes.
  26. ineo Pyramidical Forms, er into Angulared Co-
  27. hach been broushr forth on the Surtace of the
  28. Fiarrh by Sprinos, Rivers, and Exhalations Crom
  29. theAby(s, ever since theDeluse.
  30. The Doctor suppoles also, har che Birumen.
  31. Which is found in Cumps, or congulared Masses
  32. in some Sprinss; and irhich in others, is found
  33. Aoarins on the Surtace of the Water in chefiorm
  34. OF an Oyt, (called by Nacuralists, Naphrha and
  35. Petroleum:) Thac che Sale wherewiththe Salinae
  36. Or Salr Springs abound, che Vicriol, Alom, Nitre
  37. Sulphur, Sparr, and ocher Minerals, Wherewict
  38. the Acidulae, or Medicinal Springs are impregna-
  39. red; allehese Mincrals, he Paich, vere ArAlod5
  40. ed inthe Scrata OF Stone, Coal, FartH, (9c. ane
  41. hare since been ecuced thence, and conrered
  42. lumns, consistirs oi six Sices, and mueronared (incothole Sprines, bythe Wacer perradins chose
  43. or rerminatis in a Poinc; Deins cicher Opale Or
  44. Scrata in ies pallase trom che AbYIs torvards the
  45. Pellecid, or but partly E0, and coloured Black, Caid Sprinss. Sec a much larger Account ol
  46. Wrhice, Crey. PEcd, Purple, Bluc, ZelloW, Or
  47. Creen: v. er. Chrystal, che Pseudo- Adamantes.
  48. theCornis and Bristom-Stones, Crystallized Sparrs,
  49. che tris, che Amethy he Saphire, e 10paZ,
  50. the Fmeraula, EC.
  51. A5 10 che Criom ard Production Os Melato
  52. aud Miverals, the Dr. Trom che Lishe his Obler-
  53. varions have siven him, comes ro chele Conclu-
  54. SiOnS.
  55. chis Marrer under che word Fossils.
  56. METAL, a word Frequenely used about a
  57. Piece ot Ordnance, or Grear Cun: Phe Our-
  58. side or Surtace ot her is called, the Superficies
  59. of her Metals: When che Mouth oE à GreaF
  60. Cun lies lorver than her Brecch, ther CaY, She
  61. lies under Metal; buc il Me lies truly lerel, Poine
  62. blanke, orrighe wirh cheMark, ther (a7, She lies
  63. rirhe mith her Metal
  64. METALLDROT, isthe Workins Or Opera
  65. tion uxon Mecals, in order ro render chem most
  66. che scraru oove cheir prelent etale alet tine, hard, briste, beauritul, cerriceable or ule-
  67. Fus eo Mtankind.
  68. MEFAPEDIOM che Came in chC FDOE, chat
  69. Metacarpus is in the Fland.
  70. METAPHIOR, a Frope in Phetorick, by
  71. erhich wre put a Aranse and remore NVord FOF 2
  72. Proper Word, by realon of its resemblance wirh
  73. thethins of Wvhich e speak: A5 a Kins is cal-
  74. led the fIcad oF his Ringdom, because he com-
  75. mandsthe Members oF the Polirick BodY, as che
  76. TIead coesthe Natural Body
  77. METAPHIREADM, isthac part of theBack,
  78. Wrhich comes atrer the Diaphrasme, Blanchard.
  79. METAPTOSIS, is the degeneraring ot one
  80. Disease inro another, a5 oF a Ouartan Ague, into
  81. 2 Fertian; and on che contrary, ot an Apo-
  82. plexy into a Palsie, _C.
  83. ME TASTASIS, is wohen 2 Dileale soestrom
  84. one part ro anocher; which happen co Apople
  85. Ctick Pcople, when che Marrer irhich aftectsthie
  86. Brain is rranstated rothe Nerres.
  87. METATARSDS, is composed oF sive lic-
  88. ile Bones, connected ro chole of che Arst parr
  89. ot che Foor, which immediarets succceds che
  90. le
  91. chere gathercd into a Rude Flcap, wirhour ans
  92. Parricular Form or Order, lyins included wichir.
  93. Ehervo opposice Walls o sices et ule lala lnter.
  94. vals, vnch accorains ro cheir quatities, ihe
  95. whols. Ex parels SiII.
  96. In luch manner is sparr, and ocher Mineral.
  97. utuass sound; as alo the, common Ores ot
  98. 1. LALE EHC FAF BTCATEIE PAHE OF our MeralS
  99. and Minetals, viz. aI Cuch as ac le io IHI
  100. dex ro che Oniversal Deluze, Whenche Strata Ot
  101. Scone, alch, MCarble, C5C. Themietres ec a
  102. s0 Forme. Ac which rime also vere all Metal-
  103. lick and neral PFodules wharsoerer Formed:
  104. as elllose in Rude Lumps, Tuch 25 the com-
  105. mon egritae, Elines, Pebbles, Agates, Onyxes,
  106. Faspers, Cornelions, Ecc. 25 those of a more ob-
  107. serrable Figure and regular Shape, as the Sele-
  108. nires, Belemnites, Stelechires, Mineral Coral.
  109. 2. That ihe Mecallick and Minerat Mattes
  110. non Found in the Perpendicular Interrals Ox Fis
  111. Tures oF the several Scrata, oF Whichche Body oF
  112. che Parch is compoled, was all of ic orisinalls,
  113. and ac the time of the Deluse, lodsed in the
  114. Bodies ot chole Scrara, tharir aseduced thence
  115. and cransnirted into chese Incerrals Since chat
  116. time; che Interrals chemselres nor existino ril
  117. he scrata vere formed, and afcerwards broten,
  118. to lec che Wrarer irom or the Parth. See Pari 2
  119. Consect. 3, 6. aud Part. 3. Sect. 2. of his Natural
  120. Tristory of the Farth.
  121. Ene he suppoles that rhe Warer which is con-
  122. rinvally ascendins trom che AbyIS, cowards rhe
  123. Surtace ot che Olobe, (sec Abyss, and etre word
  124. Sprinss) continvallr perradins che Bodies OF che
  125. Strata, deraches out of their Pores and Incercti-
  126. cesque Fueh Mecaltick and Nineral C orpuscles 25
  127. lic loole in ins way, (and wrhich are Withal (0) ale Called Mereors Fromcheir Fleration; becaule
  128. Mitadus (acCoc 10 eaC Cartestant) alc
  129. certain rarious Impressions made upon che Fle.
  130. Lilems, CaMe elem in dinerene POrIMS, and
  131. at ait 30. 10 be capabie ee patere hcoe prdle do let lite aebo pares phes apsege 1o be tiet n pie

Cite

Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0525?run=74