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

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  1. Longs, Four Breves, cighe Semi breves, fixteen, deline, 603 Copernieus, 6033 Kircher, 62 23
  2. Minims, Thirey evo Crorehets, fixty Four dua
  3. vers, EC.
  4. Besides these Moods of Time, Fire orters rela-
  5. rins co Tune, ere in Dse amOrs the ANCIenE
  6. Grecians, Which vere termed Tones or Punes by
  7. thc Catins; the Delign of cicher beins to Mew
  8. in Whar Pey a Sons wras set, and hou che ditse
  9. Tene K eys had relation one to another.
  10. These sors oE Moods vere distinguistid b5
  11. the Names oF the sereral Prorinces OE Creece,
  12. arhere ther ere Arst invenced; 25 the Dorick,
  13. Lydian Tonick, Phrycian and Folick.
  14. and accordins ro Trcho, 56 = Semi diameters ol
  15. he Farch. NIP. Nemron chinks the Distance
  16. oughe eo be esteemed about 6T: ThereFOrC thC
  17. Mean Distance mar be reckoned 60. Buc il
  18. the Farth and Moon more boch round the Sun
  19. rich cheir Common Centre oE Graritr, thad
  20. Admirable Astronomex demonstrares that the
  21. Distance between the Centres oF the Farrh ane
  22. Noon ill be 60 = oE che Farrhs Semi diame
  23. Ter, Prop. 60. Lib. 1. Princip.
  24. She is nearer the Parch ac hex syzyry, chan in
  25. in the Onadeature, by L, PaFE OF the Distance.
  26. AccOrding ro M. Cassni, ihe MoonS Greatest
  27. Dorick Mood, consisted oF Ro cund Noces, Distance trom the Parth is 6r, the mean Di
  28. and Was proper FOr the exCitins PerSOnS 10 50- Stance 56, and ehie least Distance 52 Semi-dia
  29. brietr and Piety.
  30. METEFS OF thC FaETH.
  31. The POrver OF the HoonS InAUenCC, 2S EO
  32. Eydian Mood, vras litervise used in Solemn the Tides, is eo thac oF the Sum a5 6 = t0 Onc.
  33. Crare Musick; and the Delcane or Composition
  34. vas oF Ron Time, adapted to Sacred LIymne
  35. Ot Anthems.
  36. Tonick Mood, WaS FOF more ligHE and IOFE NTII
  37. sck; TuCH 2S pleaTANE ammOTOIS SOnGS, SaT2
  38. bands, COFAHES, Jig9S, (9C.
  39. Phryzian Mood, Was a W artike Kind OF Mu-
  40. Sick, Air For Trumpers, LTaurbOyS, and ocher In-
  41. struments oE the litce Nacure; Whereby che
  42. Minds oF Nen iere animated ro underratie
  43. Milicary Acchierements, Or Marrial sixerciles.
  44. Eolick Mood DeinS OF a more aiey, POFF, and
  45. NIP. Nemion.
  46. As to the Tnequalier oF the Hoons Motion
  47. (Wrhich proceeds From the Action oE che Sun-
  48. disturbins the Morion OE the Secondarr Pla-
  49. nets) Me moves svister, and deseribes (by 3
  50. Radius draWN ErOm IL EO Che LarTH) a GrCaTCK
  51. deliohttul Sound, fuch as our Madris als, served
  52. Area in proportion ro the Time, hach ar
  53. Orbit less curred, and by chac means comes
  54. nearex ro the Farth in her Syzygies OF Conjun
  55. ctions, than in the Onadratures, unlels the MO-
  56. rion os her Excentricier hinder ic: Whick FX
  57. centricier is greatest, whenthe Aposeum oF ihc
  58. Noon happens in the Conjunctions; and is least,
  59. Wrhen che Aposeum happens at the Cnadratures.
  60. And Therclore the Noon is Cvister 25 wvell 25
  61. nearer tO uS in her Periseum, and more remote
  62. eo allar che Passions by che means ot ils frate- and Porver in her Aposeum ac the Conjunctions.
  63. sul Varietr and nelodious Flarmons.
  64. These Moods Ox Lones rere distinguistred into
  65. Authentick and Playal, with respect ro the divi-
  66. dins ot the Octave inro its Fitth and FOurrM:
  67. The Formet Was when che Fisth possessed che
  68. Lorver Place, according co the FTarmonical Di-
  69. vision ot an Octave; and the ocher was whren ic
  70. Atood in the Vpper Place, accordins to che A-
  71. richmetical Dirision of the lame Octave.
  72. MOOTI. The Periodical Rerolurion of the
  73. Moon, in reserence t0 the FIX d StarS, I5 27
  74. Dars, 7ITOurs, 43 Minutes: And in che lame
  75. Space ot Time, by a Arange Correspondence
  76. and fTarmony oF the rOMOrionS, ic revolres che
  77. Pame az abour its omn Axis; wtiereby (onc
  78. Motion as much converrins it to, as the other,
  79. turns ic from the Farth) the Pame side is alvays
  80. expoled ro our Sight.
  81. chan ac che Ouadratures; and her Motion is
  82. Cvister also in the Parchs Aphelion, chan in ieS
  83. Peritetion. The Aposcum also soes Forward
  84. Cviscer in che Conjunctions, and SOeS POreF At
  85. the Ouadratures: Bur hex Nodes are ac rest in
  86. the Conjunctions, and do recede most svifey in
  87. the Ouadratures.
  88. The Moon also perpecually chanses the Figure
  89. of hex Orbir, or the Species oF the Fllipse MC
  90. mores in.
  91. There are also fome other Tnequalicies in tH
  92. Notions oF ehis Planet, which ean hardly be
  93. reduced ro any certain Rule: AS, that che Ve
  94. locities or Florary Motions oF the Apogeum and
  95. Nodes, and their Equations, and ehie Disserence
  96. betveen the grearelt Fxcentricier in the Con-
  97. junctions, and the least in che Ouadracures;
  98. and char Inequalier wrtich is called the Variation
  99. Sihe Moen: Allchese do encreale and decreale
  100. The Librations of the MoonS Body, which Annually, in a Priplicate Rario of the apparent
  101. occasion that the lame Hlemisphere exactly,
  102. is not alivars expoled ro oux Sighr, arise
  103. trom che Fxcencricis oE theMoons Orbit, From
  104. the Perturbations by the Suns Aecraction, and
  105. from che Obliquier ot the Axis of che Diurnal
  106. Diameter oF the Sun. And ehis Variation IS en-
  107. crealed and diministred in a Duplicate Rario O1
  108. the Time BetrVCen FhC OVadFALUTES; IS NIF. Nem-
  109. ton prores in manz Places ot his Principia.
  110. Thac Curious Person Found che APogeum in
  111. Roration of che Moons omn Orbit; withour the MOOnSSyZ5ys 10 50 ForVard 23 min. Cact
  112. the Knowleas et wen Ceances, het
  113. Phaenomena wele nexplicaere, Duc es the Con-
  114. Sderartest et cent ale rerr demonttrable.
  115. The Mean HOrarY MOtIOH et ile Moon, in
  116. respect ot thC LIA d ScarS, i5 32 MM, 56SC.
  117. Day, in respect oF the Fix d STaES; and 10 50
  118. backvard 16 min. Z. cach Dday in cire Ouadra-
  119. TureS: And cheretore the midale AnnuaL NTOEI
  120. ons he estimates at 40 deg.
  121. This cisters Comechine om MP. Flamsteed S
  122. Astronomical Tables; Wvhere the Diurnal Pro.
  123. Grestion of the MOOn S AposCum is 24 min. 28 sC.
  124. ins ro most Asronomers, 59; accordins c0 Vin.) conde in ihe Sizyys, ael ehe Recetion 20 min.
  125. CondS, 2) LMITAS, LL FOUTEHS ana HalI.
  126. Lhei Moon is dutant trom ile Parth, accord-

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