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

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  1. A P
  2. Node ot che Moon; and whenthe Moon also is ) char some Parallax Bould be found: And chis
  3. to be Northerly in one Pode, and Southerly in ould be a Discorerr oE grear Moment, il it
  4. the ocher: In chese chings there necds no sreat
  5. Exactness, because the Ditterences oF Lacitude
  6. may be susticienty supplied trom he Pables.
  7. AEthese Times ot Observation let ehe visibl
  8. Ptaces ot the Moon boch in Lonsirude ane
  9. Laciiude be caken, rosether ith her risible AI-
  10. rirudes and Diameters, wrhich ler bereduced 10
  11. rhe FTorizontal; then From the Pimes and Vis-
  12. ble Places, let in cach Obserration, the Verrical
  13. Ansle be. compured, wrhich is made wich the
  14. Circle oE Laricude at the Moons Cenrre; and
  15. chen che Disserence by irtrich the Souchem Laci-
  16. cude excecdsthe Norrhern (in our Norchern pari
  17. OF che WVorId) is the Sum oF che Parallaxes ot
  18. Laricude, wrhich, must be dirided into LNO ParES
  19. Wvhich t0 do, pur into one sum che Losarichms
  20. OF the Sine oF the Lorizoncal Semi-diametex ol
  21. the risible Distance of che Moon trom che Ver
  22. cex, and of che Complement oE the Ansle oF the
  23. Vertical Circle, wich che Cirele os Larirude, in
  24. each Oblerrarion.
  25. Then out oE the greater Sum cake the lesser
  26. and ro che Difference add FRadius, theSum Mal
  27. bc ihe Losaritim ot ihe Tangent oF an Ark
  28. From Whence rake 45 Degrees; then will ic be a5
  29. Radiusto the Tangent of cheRemainins ArK:
  30. 50 is the Tansent oF che half Sum ot che Parat.
  31. lay, r0 the Tangent oF half their Disterence:
  32. Bucche half sum and halt Disserence rosether, id
  33. the greater Parallax oF Laritude, and the Disse
  34. rence betreen them is the lesser. Patre chis
  35. Parallax ol Latitude out of che visible Souchern
  36. Paticude; or add it rothe Northern, and il
  37. vill Mev che Inclination.
  38. An Cen Lat, I WDe as ie Rectansle
  39. under the sines of che Distance seen trom the
  40. Cenith, and ot the Complemene ot the Angle 0
  41. he Verricle Cirele wich che Circle ot Laricude, i
  42. tothe Square ot che Radius:: S0 is the Sinc o
  43. che Parallax oC Larirude, r0 che Sine oE cheL
  44. rizontal Parallax.
  45. Andthere is berrveen the Sine OF ThC LLOTIZON-
  46. ral Senameter oF etie NOOn, a LIIC LLOLL
  47. Zontal Parallax, lO Conlanc a Proporrion, chac if il
  48. could be made; because it ovld be an undoub-
  49. ced Demonstration For the Annual Motion oFche
  50. Farth round che Sun, it any such Parallax consd
  51. be discorered.
  52. This theIngenious Dr. FTook attempred ro finc
  53. by obserrins che various Distance ot a Fix d
  54. Scar Cromthe Zenith: (Sec a Dissertation ot his
  55. designedy rrircen oi this Subject.) And our
  56. Excellent AAtronOmet ME. Flamsteed, actually dic
  57. obserre ic by the Accels and Recels oF a Fix d
  58. s
  59. Sear co ind from the Pole oF the Rquator ac dit-
  60. Terent Pimes oF ehe Year.
  61. And he alsures us, in his Letter eO DF. WV allis
  62. Written Decemb. 20. 1698. and Publimed in the
  63. Larin Fdirion Ot DF. Walliss Works: Thacha
  64. Found the Distance oF a Fix d Star near che
  65. Pole oF etie Worid 10 bc 40 Seconds, Or 43
  66. Seconds nearer ro it ac the Winter Solsice cham
  67. at the summer one: And this he obferred For 7
  68. Tears rogecher wich sreat ACCMTACY.
  69. So chac he judges che Objection oF RiocioluS
  70. against che Farchs Morion ro be entirely remo
  71. ved, and its Revolution round the Sun prO.
  72. red.
  73. Dr. Gregory seems not Patissied with chis Proot
  74. (tho hebelieres the Doctrine trom orher Princi-
  75. Ples) buc inclines rather to che Opinion OF C0.
  76. pernicui, Thac che Diameter oF the ParrtS AnnuI
  77. al Orbit is insensible, in respect ot the Distance
  78. OF the Fix d STarS. BuE Others may judge whe-
  79. cher he brinss Reasons Cufficient to overchron
  80. Obserrations (o caretuiIr, and (oofren made, a5
  81. those produced by MP. Flamsteed Sec tis Astron
  82. P. 275, 276.
  83. PARALLAX os Faricude, is an Arch oE
  84. Sreac Circle passins by ihie Poles oF the Zodiack
  85. to the apparent Place of ihe Scar, and interceprec
  86. berreen tro Circles ot the Ficliprick equally di-
  87. Rane, Whereot the one passerh by the rrue Place
  88. OF che Scar, and the ocher by che APParenE
  89. Place.
  90. PARALLAZOs Congitude, is an Arch oF che
  91. Eeliprick (or Parallel Thereto) intercepted be-
  92. tveen uvo great Circles, Whereot the ore pal
  93. sechtrom etie Poles ofthe Feliprick, and the erne
  94. Place; the orher From the (aid Poles By che ap-
  95. Parent Place: S0 that the Parallax oF Longicude
  96. is onty che Difterence ot the rrue and apparent
  97. Place, accordins ro ine Lonsimde ot the Eclip-
  98. tick.
  99. PARALLAOETCAT Anele, is an Angle made
  100. by the Oblique curring ot a Circle oF Altirude,
  101. findir, see Ansle os the Felipriek with the Verticat
  102. Circle
  103. PARALLEL Linos in Geometry, are chole
  104. which run alvars equi distant trom cach orher;
  105. on d neirher 50 Further From, nor come neareK
  106. tocach otter; and cheir Distance is alW2YSmea-
  107. sured by a Perpendicular, Wrhich whererer it be
  108. caten, is oE che same lensih, or is stvare
  109. equat 10 ir setF.
  110. eanbe buconceknown, che Moons Parallax at
  111. any time ill be had trom che Obserration oF her
  112. Diamerer.
  113. AII the Dissiculer ot this Procels, is in oblet
  114. VINZ LHC MIIIOIC Laritudes OF the MOOn; and
  115. erhich indeed cannor De had without che help Ot
  116. the Fix a StarS, Whose Laritudes are in no lata.
  117. IOSuC yCE exFanE, Correct to a Minute: THerC
  118. Fore elle Accurare Solution of this Problem muit
  119. depend on fome berrer Pables than are yet puo
  120. lishred. And those L hope we mas expect trom or Verrical Circle wirh the Fctiprick. FIoW l
  121. the melc securare Altronomer, MI. Llunslced
  122. Whiest hie hrach finim dhis Cacalogue ottLLA
  123. Scars, Wrhich he is nou about.
  124. In che Ingenious Dr. Crecoris Astronomia
  125. very uletul rarieer of Propolitions For the find
  126. ine che Parallax, Vide LIb. 2. Sect. 7.
  127. Tho there be no Parallax oF rhe Fix d StaIS,
  128. in respect. of the Farchs Cemi-diamerer, the wotrole
  129. Body oF che Farth beins bur a Point in reterence
  130. roche Distance Berrveen us and the Fix d STars;
  131. ec in respeet oF che Annual Orbir of che Farrh.
  132. Physica and Geometrica, rou have 2 great and (o thac is ther vere intinitelr produced, ther
  133. it nads qbds veea cnte

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