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

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  1. drans aboux chat lensrh (HO 4 Ox 3 FOOL Will j can be more pleasant etian r0 see how the Co-
  2. do preur eli) is che ficrest on aIl Acconnes ro (lours ot the movins pars ill chanse ascherdo
  3. make this Fixperimene Wichal; For il rou ule without, by cheir beins in rarious Posirions obve-
  4. a naII GlaIs totiose Focus is nor abore a FOOT, red to, or Thaded trom the Lighr. The Mori
  5. ex Thercabours distant From the FIole, the Repre- On OE any Flies or Birds, is painted also in the
  6. sentarion ot pour Objects ill be very (mall,lame Perfection: And the exact Lineaments ot
  7. and the Figures hardly large enoughto be distin- any Persons walkins at 2 due Distance wirhour
  8. euimted: Fo which likerrise may be added, the Clals, ivill be also expressed to che Lite, and
  9. That nOT abore one Spectator can come to loo alL their Morions, Postures and Gestures, vilI
  10. on ir at a rime, and eren he nor withour (ome a5 plainly appear onthe Clort, 25 chey do 10 2-
  11. Trouble.
  12. On elie orter hand, it vou makre ule oE a
  13. ny ones Lye Withour.
  14. In a WVord, noching is ivancins ro render ix
  15. Gla(s irhich dras 15, 20, OF25 FOOT, either one ofche finest Sistus in the Wortd, bur rhar iII
  16. vour Fole must be rerr larse, and chen lomuch (chinss are inrerred, and the urons end uprards.
  17. lighe vill come in as vill hinder the Obicets T0 remeds which, sereral Merhods hare becir
  18. From being visible on the WalI, Paper, (9C. OF
  19. thoughe on, as double Conrex-Clases, (90. DuF
  20. is che Flole be bur small, (0 litele Lighe will nonc, in my Opinion, are (0 vell, nor (0 calic,
  21. come in, thac at the Distance oF 15 Or 20 FOOr
  22. From the Windon, rou will hare hardlr Lighe
  23. enough eo sec the Representarion distinetly; Tuch
  24. larse Glasses likcevile are nor casils had everr
  25. irtiere, nor are ther every ones Money; buc a
  26. GIaIS FHaE draWS abOUE S FCCE, IS VeEY PFOBeF 10
  27. bemade use on in this Case.
  28. 25 t0 ralce a common Lootins glals OF abOuE r2
  29. Or X4 Inches Square, and hold it under Or near
  30. che Chin, wich an Acure Angle to vour Breast:
  31. For if rou do (o, and look donn into ic, rou ill
  32. sec all chinssuponcheSheet inverred in theGlals;
  33. (1. e.) in chis case, restored ro their Natural and
  34. Frect Postion; and chis ReRection also Fromthe
  35. Flavins sorcen such a OtasS, make choice ot Class, sires it a Clarinenels chac is very surpri-
  36. fome Room which hach a Norch Window, cho
  37. zins, and makes it lool like fome Magical PrO-
  38. an Fast Or WVest mas do vell enoush (but a spect, and che morins Imases, like (o many
  39. South one will noc, for a Reason ro be siren be- Spectrums or Phancalms. And no doube buc
  40. Tow) and let it be ivell Darkened, (0 chat no (there are many Persons thac mishe casily De
  41. Lighe can come into ic, bur at che FIole where impoled uxon writh such a Scene, and votro
  42. vour Glals is placed, or ac leas but very lirrle. vould beliere ic to be no less than donnriohe
  43. Then matre a Flole in the Shurrer oF the North Conjurarion,
  44. Window oF abour an Tneh, or an Inch and = in And P have made usc oF this FXperimenE FO
  45. Diamerer, and leare open the Calement itchere convince lome Credulous Pertons rhâc thole are
  46. Deone, For there must De no Olals Without rour abused and imposed upon, who sec Faces in the
  47. TTole. Then fasten the Clals wich is Cenrre in Classes of some Chearins Rnares amonsA uS,
  48. Ehe Centre of the FIOse, By Lome (maIITacks eo Who Per up For Cunnins Men, and Dilcorerers
  49. The SMIIeK, (0 That nO puH oF Wind blon ic oE Scolen Coods, 59c. And hare larissied chem
  50. donn and break ic; and at che Distance char chac much more may be done by chis and some
  51. vouknon pour Clals drans, hans up a Wrhire ocher Oprical Experimenes, and char wichourthe
  52. Sheet; or it rou donor know exactlr the Focus help ot che Deriltoo, than by any oF the clum-
  53. oFthe Gla(s, more the Sheet roo and fro rill vou sic Mechods used by chese Vermin.
  54. sind the Objects are reprelented on it very distin-
  55. etly, and rhen vou mar Fasten ic chere by Nails
  56. IFche Clals be placed in a Sphere or Globe
  57. OF Nood Charing an FIole as large as the Glass
  58. eo the Ceiling, (90. Then will whacerer is bored chro ic). Which like the Lire ot an Animat
  59. Wichour the HIole, and oppolire to il, be repre-
  60. masbeturned erery wayto receire the RayS CO-
  61. senced on thac Stieer wich such exquisite exact.
  62. nels, 25 Far surpasses the urmost Skill ot any
  63. Painter to exprels. Forit che Sun Minc brighr-
  64. ming from all Parrs ot the Objects, it will be ot
  65. 8ood Adrancase ro che Experiment; and suck
  66. ready siced are non commonly sold bY MC. Mar-
  67. ls on che Objects (as indeed chis Experimentis Pall ac che Archimedes en Ludeate hill, and are
  68. never made vell When ic dorh nor) rou wilt called Seioptrictes.
  69. tave the Colours oF all rhingsthere in their Na-
  70. cural Paint, and such an admirable proporrion ot
  71. Lighe and Stradon, as is impossible to beimita-
  72. red by AEE; and P Ver never PaW any thing OF
  73. phac kind chac comes near this Natural Land
  74. scape. Bur if che Sun do noc Chine, the Colours
  75. riil be hardls visible, and aI will look direy,
  76. dark and contused; rheretore l adriled a Norrt
  77. Nindon, chac vou may have che Meridian
  78. Sun ining on rour Obieet in irs grearest Splen-
  79. And as by ehis Method any Tmase may Be
  80. made appear in a darkened Room, Dr. Hook, in
  81. Philosoph. Transact. IV. 38. Sires a way oE doirs
  82. the lame chins in an Enlislcened one, cicher by
  83. Day ox Nieht. The Fxperimene I have cried
  84. my Selt, and is a5 FollOWS.
  85. Oppositerothe WNalI, Or Place Where the AP
  86. parition is to be, let a tole be made abour a
  87. Foor in Diamerer Or bieger; il chere be an histi
  88. Windom chachach a Calemene in it, it wilt do
  89. better.
  90. Wichour chis FTole, or Casemene, (0 char the
  91. Company inthe Room mar nor see what is done,
  92. Place rhe Picture or Object rou vould reprelent
  93. ced behind, il che Picture be Transparent, reslect
  94. roietim on vour Livels Picture; and nertine l che Rays et dhe duve, lo chac ches may patocluq
  95. dor, chat (0 che Experiment may be in its uririost
  96. pertection: Buc vou must by no means tave
  97. all wviil be contuled.
  98. Anocher chins in Which ehis RepresentaciON
  99. exceeds Painting is, Thachere rou hare Motion
  100. exPPeSsed on vour CIOTh. IF rie Nind more inverced; and by means or Lockino-Glasies pla
  101. ihe Sun Minc on ornear che Hole, for it ic dorti
  102. EtC LICCS, FLAHES OF FIOeES WnOu souMave

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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/806933011:0570?run=74