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

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  1. Foud ihe Sun, really deviaces FroM That Larallet
  2. um, Whileh ic seems ro Kecp wvich ic sele an che
  3. Eime Ot one Annual Rerolution: By this ABCEFZ
  4. rion it delcribes a Conical Superticies; and
  5. Farths Lgulator morins round the Sun, coserte
  6. Writh he Fdechs AXis, che Incerlections oF the Cele.
  7. stial Equator ich ehe Peliprick, will run back, Ox
  8. more in Antecedentra, 25 Wwill all Orher Points O1
  9. the Fcliprick, (25 vell as chose Rguinoctial Ones.)
  10. he Sion lauris, ec.
  11. ceiver.
  12. Rario in boh Fisures.
  13. For Aappose rhere was siren any chree Numbers or
  14. Ouantiries Ceomecricallr proportional, a5 A, B, anc
  15. C, and chac it vere required eo sind d FourrH D
  16. proporrional torhem.
  17. Since it is chat A: B:: C: D, ThCrCFOrE AD
  18. =BC, and contegueneir D = BC
  19. A5 chac is, che
  20. Fourrh Term is equal toche Ouorient oE Sccond.
  21. mulciplied bs che Third Term, dirided bY che
  22. Fust:
  23. Crchus in Numbers.
  24. Suppose siven 12, 4, aud 9; required a Fourrt
  25. Noi 25 12 : 4: : 9: .
  26. BuE 12 Q = 4 X 9 = 36.
  27. Theretore C=
  28. Sides by 12.
  29. 12 C: 3. by diridines vorta
  30. CiOROLL ARF.
  31. And trom hence tis plain, Thax if any cvo Fri
  32. argles, Parallelosrams, Prilms, Parallelopipeds
  33. Prramids, Cones, Or Cylinders, hare their Bases
  34. and Alcicudes Reciprocally proportional, those eve
  35. Fisures or Solids are equal to one another; and
  36. vice versa, it ther are equal, their Bases and AIri-
  37. tudes are Reciprocally proporrionable.
  38. RECTEROCAL Proportion, is Whien in fOu
  39. Numbers, the Fourrh is lesser than the Second, by
  40. (0 much as the Third is grearer than the First, and
  41. vice versa; on which is founded che Inverse or In-
  42. direct Rule of Threc, THUS.
  43. 4 : 20: : 8:
  44. Scethe Corollary atter Reciprocal Fisures.
  45. There is great ule made oE this Reciprocat Pro-
  46. portion, BY NIr. Tsaac Nemron, and OtherS, in their
  47. Demonstrarions oF che Lams of Motion, _c. and
  48. indeed wirhour a clear knowledge ot il, they can-
  49. not be undersood.
  50. RECENTATIONos a Plain, is che Ouantier oF
  51. Ocorees wrhich any Plain, on wetich a Dyal is sup
  52. Posedro be drann, lies or falls backmards tromthe
  53. eruls uprisht or verrical Plaim
  54. RECLIMINO, in Dyatlins, che Plane thatleans
  55. trom ron iohen vou stand betoreir, is said ro be a
  56. Reclinine Plane
  57. RECLIHMC Declining Dyals. See Declinins
  58. Rectinine Dyals
  59. RECOOHTSANCE, in LaW, i5 as a Bond OE
  60. Obligation of Record, cestitrine the Recoenisor FO
  61. ove to che Recornisce a cerrain Sum of Moner, and
  62. is acknomledged in Pome Courr of Record, Ox bC.
  63. fore some Judge, Master oF the Chancerr, Ox Ju-
  64. Rice ot Peace; and those char be meer Recoeni-
  65. Sances, are nor Scaled bur Fnrolled, and Pxecurion
  66. by Forcechereot, is oF all he RecognisorS oods Or
  67. Chatrels, (exCepE DrauehE Beacts and Implemens
  68. Ot Llusbander) and the Noreer ot his Lands.
  69. RECOGHTSEE, is hre ro whom one is bound in
  70. 2 Recognisance.
  71. RELOOHETIONE cdnullanda per vim C duri-
  72. tiem facta, ls a Wric ro che justices oF che Com
  73. And therefore the Signs OP Fix d Scars chat make
  74. the 12 Zodiacal Conlellations, will appear
  75. move torward, in Consequentia; a5 les o
  76. scem to hare aosse by che Ouanciey oF a wslole
  77. Sisn; For erhich Rcason, rou sind the Picture o
  78. the Ram Painted on our Globes at the beginnins oF Propoiional.
  79. DF. Gregory in his Fxcellent Astronomia Physica
  80. C9 Geometrica PFOP. LZIV. Tib. F. Makesthe PrO.
  81. lace Spherordical Fisure of ihe FarH, 10 be che
  82. Primarr Occaston ot ihis Recession ot the Equi
  83. noctial Points; and Wichal sews chat the Parcts
  84. Axis in evers Annual Rerolurion round che Sun
  85. vice changes les Inclination to the Rcliprick, and
  86. 25 otten recutns again to irs former Pohrion.
  87. REOIDINOS Morbus, a Relapse, is wotien che
  88. Norbitick MatteF, Thac WaS lefe in che Arst Di
  89. Semper, Desins to Work and termenie again.
  90. RFCIPTEHTS, Or Reccivers, are those Vestels
  91. utrich in Vistillarion, are Luced co the Beak, Ot
  92. Nose oF AlemBick, RCTOTE, (00. to receire itic
  93. Matrer Wtich ls raised or Forced over the FTelm by
  94. thie Fire. THac Clals also Wtich is extrausted
  95. Rir BY NII. BoyLS Rir-Pump, and Wvichin wvhich ans
  96. Animal, OxcMHer Bodies, are included ro make P.X
  97. Periments upo is by him ulually called che H
  98. RECIPKOCAE Figures in Geometrr, are suct
  99. as have the Anecedents and COnseGUCHES OF LI
  100. tere A: B::
  101. Thac is, 25 much longer a5 che Side A in che
  102. Tirst Rectanele, is then B:: (0 much deeper is the
  103. Side C in the second Rectangle, than the Side D
  104. in ihe first; and consequendr che Lensth ot one is
  105. compensared by che Depth of the ocher; and ali0
  106. as the Side A is Z longer than che Side C, (0 che
  107. Side B is one Ath longer chan D. Wheretore che
  108. Rectanoles mustnecds bc equat
  109. And Fhis is che Foundation oFrhe Catholick Theo-
  110. rem; Lhac the Rectansle of the Extreams must al
  111. vays be equat tothat of the Means: And consequent-
  112. Is che Aealon ot che Aule es Threc, or Colden Kule, Imon Bench, Eoc che lendins ot a Record iouchine

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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/806933011:0698?run=74