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

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1. PLAIET Scau, Ida chin Ruler, cither oF Nood
2. ox Brals, Whercon are graduaced the Lines ol
3. Chords, Sines, Tansents, Secants, Leagues, Rumbs, _
4. and is of ready use in most parE OF ihC Mathema-
5. ciekes, chiesy in Navicarion: A Description there
6. Ot sec undex the Word Scale.
7. PLAIN Table, is an Instrumene uled in Sur
8. revins oF Land.
9. 1. The Table it selt is a Parallelooram 0
10. WVood, T4 Tnches and a halF lone, and FF In
11. ehes broad, Ox FhercabOULS.
12. 2. A Frame oF Nood fixed ro ic, (025 a Sheer
13. OF Paper being laid on che Table, and the Frame
14. being Forced donn uxon ie, sgucezeth in all the
15. Edges, and makes ic lie tirm and eren, (0 25 a
16. Plot may De convenienely deavon upon ic. Vp.
17. on one lide ot this Frame Mould be equat Divi-
18. sions, for drawins Parallel Lines boch long wrise
19. and crols wise (as Occation mar require) Over
20. vour Paper; and on the ocher side che 360DC.
21. erees oF a Circle, projected from a Brass C enere
22. conrenienely placed in che Table.
23. 3. R Box With a Necale and Card, 10 beAxec
24. vith evo Screws toche Table; verr usetul FOr
25. placins ehe Instrumene in che lame Posirion up.
26. On cvery Remore
27. Plane roux Table (Arced Wwich ehe Sheer upon
28. ic) as nigh co che Angle as rou catr, the NTorrI
29. end oF che Necale harigins directly over che
30. Flomer-de luce; thien make a MarK. upon thC
31. Sheet OF Paper ac ans convenient place For the
32. ansle A, and lar che end oF the Index co che
33. Mark, curning it aboue eill chroush ehe SighES
34. Tou espr B; chen dear che Line AB by che
35. Edee ot che index. Doche same For the Line
36. A C, Kecpins che Index upon rhe Ars MarK:
37. Then will rou hare upon vour Table an Anele
38. equal to che Angle in ihe Pield.
39. When rou have more Angles ro take, the
40. Hechod is chie same.
41. The Distances Trom the Angles co the InAtrU:
42. menc are meatured by the Chain, and set OH on
43. the Table wrich à Scale and Compasses
44. Wrhence ris (0 easie r0 rake the PIOE OF 2
45. Field ac one scation, by che Plain Table, EHIZE
46. There needsno other Direction Sec Surverins.
47. PLATNTIFE, is he chat sues or complains in
48. an AMIle, Or in an Action Personal; 25 in an
49. Action oF Debe, Trespass, Disecit, Derinue, and
50. che likeo
51. PLANCERE, in Archiecture, is che Vnder
52. Part OF the ROOF oF the Corona; Wtich is cHe
53. Superior part ot che Cornice, between vo Cy
54. matiums. Sec those Words.
55. PLANE os a Dyal, is the Surtace on wtick
56. 4. A Threclerged Stas 0 supporr it, the Flead any Dyal is supposed eo be described. See 2
57. beins made (0 as ro sll the Socket ot ehe Table,
58. vet lo as che Fable may be casily turned rounc
59. ipon ic, Wvhen ris nor fixed by che Screw.
60. 5. An Inaex, Wtich is a larsc Ruler oF WN00d,
61. Or Brals) al ise seal 16 Tnches lone, and tre
62. Inches broad, and (o chick as to makre it ArOng
63. perfectly of the Pame Distance From the Fiduciat
64. Fdee. Opon chis Index ris ulual ro hare mane
65. General ACCOnNE OF aII Such Planes under eic
66. Nord Oyalline.
67. PLAHIE Forizontal, in Perspective, is à Plane
68. Which is parallel to che Florizon, and which pas
69. les chro ihe EyC; or hach che ere suppoled 10
70. De placed in IE.
71. PLAHE os Gravitation or Gravity, in any
72. hearr Body, is a Plane supposed eo palo chro thie
73. Centre oF Gravier oF ir
74. PLANE, in Forrificarion, is the Reprelenta
75. tion oF WVorke in its Fleighe and Breadeti.
76. PLAHE of the Noropter, in OprickS, is FHaE
77. wrhich passerh chro che PToropter, and is perpen-
78. dicular eo the Plane of the rvo Optical AxOS.
79. PLANE Number, is thac wohich may be pro.
80. duced by che Mulciplicacion ot ervo Numbers
81. one into anocher; thus, 6 is a Plane Number,
82. because ic may be produced by the Multiplica
83. tion oF 3 bY 2; For tvice 3 makes 6. 50 al(0
84. 25 is a elane Number, arising from 5 being mul-
85. ciplied by 3; and 9 is a Plane Number, produ-
86. ced by che Mulciplication oF 3 bY 3
87. PLANE Problem, in Machematicks, is suct
88. an one as cannor be Colred Geometricallr, bur
89. by che Incersection citcher oF a Righe Line and
90. Circle; ot of the Circumterences OF EvO Cir
91. cles: AS, FTaving the greatest Side siven, and the
92. Sum of the otset Lvo, os a Riche-ansled Trian
93. ole; to findt the Triancle, to deseride d Trapezium
94. that sal mate a iven Area of lour iven Lines
95. And such a Problem can hare bur rno Solutions
96. because d Kighe Line can Cur a Circle, or one
97. Circle aHOEHEF, BuL HIO LOLIIIS. CZanaM.
98. PLANE Ceometrical, in Perspectire, is:
99. Plain surtace, parallet ro the Horizon, placea
100. lovet chan che Fyes Wnclem che visible Objects
101. ate imagined wichoue ans Alleration, excepE
102. xhac chey are lomerimes reduced from a preatet
103. PL ANI
104. 202 leAex SiZC.
105. and Airm; havins a Roaped Fdge, called rhe Fi-
106. duciat Fdse, and two Sighes oF one HIciphe,
107. Whereot ehic one hach a Stir abore, and d
108. Thread below; and the ocher a Thread abore.
109. and a S Delon) 10 sel i ee HMCL, ds WBC
110. Seales oE equal Parrs, as also Diasonals, an
111. LneS OF Chordso
112. Lo tale the duantiry os an Ansle by che
113. Plain Table.
114. AS suppole A B and A C vere rvo Flede
115. oe Fences ot a Field, and ix Wele tesue
116. catie che anste A.

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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/806933011:0633?run=74