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

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  1. 5OV
  2. ac once; as Froin Arcties ind Vaulted Rooms
  3. From Whence etie contused Bomb oF such like
  4. Places ariles.
  5. And trom hence probably may be deduced, the
  6. Realon Why Concare Bodies are (cereris paribus
  7. Aicrest 1o produce erear and clear Sounds; luch as
  8. Bells, C9c. For in sucti Bodies che Sound is very
  9. switcls and verr otren ReRlected trom Side 10 Side
  10. and from one Parr otche Caries ro anocher, and che
  11. Bell hangins at liberiy, this produces sreat erem
  12. blings and Makings ot che wtiole Concare Body
  13. Wvhich occasionsche Sound ro conrinue rill cher cease
  14. and are quier.
  15. 10. There is one Phenomenon oF Sounds, chac
  16. is indeed very ibondertul, Thacall Sounds great or
  17. Small, wich ehe Wind or against ic, trom che lame
  18. Distance, come roche Par ac the lame Pime.
  19. DE. Folder in his B00k oF che Nacural Crounds
  20. and Principles oFFlarmony; Cays, Thac if che Pre-
  21. mulous Morion Whichcauserh Sound, be Onitorm,
  22. etien ic produces a Musical Norc, or Sound: Buc
  23. if ic beDittorm, chen ic produces a Voile.
  24. The Florentine Academicks Found a Sound 10
  25. more onc ot cheir Miles (viz: 3000 Braccia, Or
  26. 6925 Fcer) in Aire Seconds ot Time: There-
  27. fore accordins ro rtiem, ic mores L185 Foor in one
  28. Second.
  29. BUE MIr. Tsaac Nemton Found it Lo move but 968
  30. Foot, in a Second ot Zime.
  31. SOONID, in Gcoeraphr, is any Breac Indraustir
  32. OF the Sea, becoixe tvo tlead lands, Where there
  33. is no Passase through.
  34. SOONBINO, Wvhen cheScamen ery che Depcti
  35. oF rhe Wacer wich a Line and Plummer, cher CaII
  36. ic Soundins. Burcheir Soundins Line, a5 cher call
  37. ic, is a Line different trom the Deep Sea Line, 25
  38. being bigser chan ic, and noc much abOre 20 Fa
  39. ehom in lensch; andis martced ac 2 Fachom, wictu
  40. a picce oF Black Lcacher becwixe the Scrands; sc
  41. al ac 3 Fachom, and ac 4; buc ac s’ris markec
  42. ich a picce ot Whice Leacher, or Clorh.
  43. This Line can be used when che Strix is unde
  44. Sait; bur the Decp Sea Line connor be used wel
  45. excepe che Ship be broucheupon che Back-A2Y5
  46. (Sec Decp Sea Linc.)
  47. To sound che deepest Sea without a Line.
  48. Take 2 Globe ot Firr, or Maple, or orher lixhie
  49. Nood, a5 A; let ic be Wvell secured by Varnim,
  50. Eirch, ox ocherwile, From imbibins Wacer; take
  51. allo a piece oF Lead or SroneD, considerably hea
  52. rier ean will sirik che GlobC.
  53. it hans che Weiphe, by us Hlook l; and l0 lec
  54. Polture reprelenced in the laid ue, BBI
  55. com, vhere che elu coes lcttete.
  56. by AoPd; bur cheBall, beins by che Impetus ic ac.
  57. WVacch, harins Minuces and Seconds: Or by 2 3000
  58. Minure sl2(s; Cx best oF all bs a Pendulum Muta-
  59. rins Seconds; Wrhich must be 3Foor, 3 5 In
  60. ches Long, 2iZ. bectee ee et ene vanll
  61. Aened, or held wvhen ic Vibrates. B), cls War.
  62. wich che help ot some Pables, rou maz come io
  63. know any Dexrh ot the dea.
  64. the Weistr and hape et che Lead, roche Bulks
  65. Weighe, and Figure of che Olobe, atrer luch 2
  66. manner, a5 uxon Expetience Mall be found most
  67. convenient.
  68. Instyment, iie Globe beins oF Maple wood, well
  69. corered wih Purch, tohunder loalcins in, W 255 =3
  70. Tuctes in Diamerer, and eiphed 2= Pounds; che
  71. etd
  72. Let chere bC a lons Wire. Raple B, in che BaII A
  73. and a springins Wire C, wich a bendedend F; and
  74. inco ehe Caid Scaple, prels in wich vour Fingers,
  75. ehe springins Wire on che bended end: And on
  76. Olobe and aII sinke into che WVacer genely, in che
  77. quired in descendue, Casried donneards a licrle
  78. atcer re onop laletsne springins NITC
  79. eo Ay back, and Meseby Pers ic selF ac liberer tore-
  80. alcend: And by obserrins che rime ot che BaIIS
  81. Aay under Waces, (Which may be done by
  82. and che uprer end olthe Thread, wvhere ic is ta-
  83. Note, Thac Care mnst Be had oE proporrionine
  84. In some oF the Frials alrendy made vich this

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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/806933011:0749?run=74