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

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  1. Tables oF Mulriplication, che Worte vould be sc
  2. perplex, chac l Will nor here rebeat ir; and there.
  3. Fore it is thonghe berter ro recuce the sirst and chire
  4. Numbers r0 che louest Deriominacion, chac 1s Chese
  5. 2o chird Scruples.
  6. Equals he Radius) into 60Dcer. and consequencty
  7. che whole Circumterence into 360 and cact
  8. OF chese Deorces into Minures, Scconds, (9c. by
  9. Chords or Subcenses (in such Parts. Minutes, ane
  10. Seconds) ansiverins che sereral Arches a Clrcie
  11. Instead of wrtrich, thie Arabs Or Saracens hare s
  12. troducC (do MHOLC LXPecTeHE) EHeM LaMC ot Sines
  13. (Or hate Corus Ot ne double Arch) expressed in
  14. like marinee by sexaselimal PartS.
  15. WMCM thes did iN LILCaLION OL Pcolemy, than
  16. chac cher vere necesiated (o to do, haring che use
  17. oF Numeral Figures as Wre hare, Wrhich Prolem
  18. and ocher ot che Ancienes had nor
  19. Buc Arzachel cherein ditters chus tar trom Pto
  20. lemy. That he divides his Diameter into 360 PaVTS
  21. votrich Prolemy dirides buc into +20, and hachchere
  22. Sixch PatE Ot the Circumterence, Wotiole Ctiore
  23. conrinual Sexagenarr Virision
  24. And consonant hereuneo, de makes his Tableot
  25. Fore lels necd of Subdirisions
  26. 141 3
  27. 31 F0111 (hac i5, FY 48F.
  28. gire 360 Degrees, (chac 15.
  29. 10D, 6 Sexagenes oF Dcorees) chen6D.
  30. 14 10 35111 (Thac
  31. 26115.35 1111) will sire, hou much
  32. 1
  33. Nou, il L vere 10 Won a by elie Sexacesim
  34. 1 11 1
  35. 12 44 3 10
  36. X 60
  37. 42480
  38. A25241 311 10111
  39. 60
  40. 2551440
  41. 255144311 7011
  42. 60
  43. 133036580
  44. 153086590111
  45. And chen che Tr orke will sand chus,
  46. TFF83080590 LHtaS SIre 360 DCDtees 5
  47. Then 32235395 Thirds, sive hou mans De.
  48. erees
  49. Where Mulciplrins ihe third Number by che
  50. second, and dividing by the ArH, I MaIl hare che
  51. Number of Degrees Souche in Incesers, With che
  52. common Fraction annexed; Wwhich beine reduces
  53. e0 Sexaselimals, Will sive che ansiver in Deorees,
  54. Minures, Scconds, (5c. Or I mistr hare reduced che
  55. 360 Dcorees into Thirds also, (Wrhich must hare
  56. Been done, it ro these Degrees chere had been an-
  57. nexed hrst, second, and chird Minures) and then
  58. the Ansiver had been in third Minures; and chese
  59. eo be reducedro Deorees, Minuces, (90.
  60. Which Operation, tho it be rroublesom enoust
  61. is ver more expedire, than by che Sexagesimal
  62. Mulciplication and Dirision, since che cime chai
  63. ve hrare learned, (by help oc che Numerical Fi
  64. Sures) tomanase great Numbers, wrhichin Piolemys
  65. time ivere nor in ule
  66. and in like mannee, wohatever ocher come 10 be
  67. 10 Mulciplicd.
  68. Accordins co ehis Sexagesimal Method, Prolems
  69. dirides chekadius or Semidiameter oF a Cirele into
  70. 60 Parrs, (and consequenly, che Whole Diamerer
  71. into +20) and cach of chose Parrs into 60 Minures,
  72. and each of thole into 60 Scconds, and (0 Formard,
  73. 25 Far 2s occation reguires. And accordingly, the
  74. L Lea s MC AMCteheS aid hus reduce
  75. cheir ordinary Fractions allro one kind ot Denomi.
  76. nation, ras, to aroid the rrouble wrhich voute
  77. arile trom chedisserent Denominarion ot Fractions
  78. wrhich (wten cher had noc che helpschac non ve
  79. have) vould be very srear; and cheretore chose re
  80. admie oF Approximations, mans rimes, instead ot
  81. ACCUTaLC LGatCICS.
  82. AIet Wrhy cher chole che Number 60, rartier
  83. than any orher Number, Was, because il cher hac
  84. made ute of 12, Or such ocher smallVumber, the
  85. vould be puc uxon a necessier of the more Subdi
  86. visions, and a Number much GreateF Than cIS
  87. thes could noc ell manase; (there beins, ever
  88. in this, rrouble, enonsh) And ot Numbers abou
  89. this bisnels, this was choushue most conveniene, as
  90. being most capable ot exact Dirisions, Wwithour be
  91. ing put ro rhe necessier of Approximations or Sub.
  92. dirisions; admittins, for Divilors, the six tiest Num
  93. berS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (which sione lels ctian il
  94. can d0) and as mans more antiverins re ce s
  95. 2, 25, 20, 30, 60, (chat is, Tvelve in 2II) rHere
  96. being no Number lelsthan ic, admirrins ot IOMMa-
  97. ny DirisOrS; nOr Can anY, Greater than it, admiE
  98. ot more, WvtCh IS nOL ac seaLE EVICC aS GreAE.
  99. trhich cannoc be laid again ot ani grearer Number.
  100. rill ve come 10 360. And chis is thar erhich is
  101. made the Number oF Degrees in che Whole Cir-
  102. cle.
  103. And ehis Dirision oF Integers into Sexagelms
  104. (Minures, Seconds, Thiras, (OC.) especially in che
  105. Parrs ot Arches, Anples, Time, and Morion; the
  106. rabs have recained, in imitation of the Greeks (Ox
  107. Ferprians) and ve trom chem, even ro chis
  108. Dar. Walliss AlSebra, Chap. VII.
  109. SEZAHOLE, in Geomerer, is a Figure consst-
  110. ins oF siX AngleS.
  111. SEX TANS, is the SiIxCh PaTE OF any chins, ThuS:
  112. There is an Astronomical Instrument called a Sex-
  113. eant, asbeing che sth parr ot a Circle. Thishart
  114. 2 graduared Limib, and is uled litre a Oua-
  115. deane.
  116. SFZTILE, the Position or Aspect oF the Pla-
  117. nets, When ac 60 Degrees distant, or ac the distance
  118. ot cvo sions trom one anocher; and is mariced
  119. CHUS,
  120. StLLLCMLLLS, advat d MMP, ale Thole oblone
  121. Tron Rings, and Bigger at one end chan at ehe orter.
  122. Wwith wrhich che Porrs are But Fast, by chrustinq
  123. the Nooden Bar of rhe Porr Throushthem. There
  124. are al(o a TOrE oF Strackles ro lite che FTarcheS UP
  125. Wwich, oF che Former Figure, bur Cmaller; ther are
  126. Arch antverins 10 such a Choid; schac is, che Fattened ac the Corners ot che Llacches.
  127. BFLAL LCE
  128. 100 44 3II 101I11
  129. 149 14 16315
  130. 8954 1611 351
  131. 33725611 35113
  132. 322353

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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/806933011:0740?run=74