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

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  1. Lec et
  2. its Poines are suppoled ro be reterrea.
  3. LecD B bc called b, and alt rH
  4. ehe Equation will bcy y = b V V V, alu-
  5. = 2VV
  6. D A will be che Lanxent; 2 b) Kalt 1s 4 and 5.
  7. APDCaTS.
  8. 1682. there is an Omrectas Mechod For drawin
  9. Tangenes co all Curres, wilen Is ad poremene
  10. OF chis.
  11. erpendicular lo sonn Ladius, 25 C
  12. conches he Cirete buc i CC LbuC.
  13. ter NB, is pexpendicular eo P B, and eo Whiet
  14. elseas above:
  15. ut sivon, at 23 ch.
  16. ac, to any siven Cirole, at cb c.
  17. a
  18. Join che Poine a and che Cesre ot the Circle
  19. by drawins che Line a c. Then wich che Kallius
  20. ac on c, describe anocher Circle; crect a Perpen-
  21. dicur s t haet d
  22. deaW de, currins che former Circle in e: chen ac
  23. beine draun, is the Tangent requirecto
  24. IE noW D BC Greater chan 2 V, che Fangemrmus
  25. be dracon corvards B, it lesser, cowards F, il equ
  26. N. B. In che Acta Fruditorum For Decemiber.
  27. Ddemonstration.
  28. The Line en is a erue Tangent, because perpen.
  29. dicular ro the Radiusce, and ris perpendicularro
  30. TANOENT d a Circle, in Geometry, is a ce, because ee a is a Righe Angle; and ce a, is
  31. and wot.
  32. Righe Ansle, because ris equal 10 cb d, (WvtICM
  33. vas made (0 by Construction) and ris equal eo
  34. cb d, because che Triansle cb d, is equal co etue
  35. Lllangle aoc, 2s havins cro Sides and one Angle
  36. equal. Wheretore che Ansle eta, Lscesuat Lo The
  37. Riphe Line, as P R dramn wirtour che Circle,
  38. Ansle c b d, wotiie I3 a B R. F. D.
  39. Anocher very expedicious may os dramins a Tangene
  40. 0a Cirele, is ihis
  41. Let the Cirele BC R NC, the Point oF Contac
  42. NV, Transser the Radins N C, any ivhere trOm L
  43. donnvards into rhe Posrion R C, (O ThAE R N bC
  44. be equalro R C; then with R C on che CentreR.
  45. Arike a Semicircle, and a Rulerlaid trom C ihro R,
  46. will And che Poine Y; From Wrhence Y N beine
  47. drawn, will be a erue l’angene, because che Angle
  48. FNC bcins in a Semii circte, is a RixHE OHC.
  49. eROPO

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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/806933011:0810?run=74