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

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  1. Sorous; and etie L
  2. ides by eic Equinoctial
  3. Moon, and cheretore are cheAtronger
  4. Fence ic hiappens, chac chie Ditterence betrcet
  5. etic sprinc and Neaptides, in chese Monctis, is mul
  6. lels considetable chan in March and September
  7. And che Reason wrhy etie tighest spring sides
  8. are Poune
  9. Co be racher betore che Vernal; and atter
  10. ihc numnal Equinox; viz. in February and Oet0
  11. ber, than precisely upon chiem, is, becaule che sun
  12. is nearer elte Larrk in etie Winter MMKhS, and sC
  13. Non by che Hyporhesis il is erident, chal l
  14. Nater in Z, Deins nearex, is mOr CdWn
  15. Moon, thanthe Cencer oF che Farth C, and chal;
  16. pam more chan che Watet I LI, CMCtCIOC MH
  17. Wacer in Z, has a cendeney cowards che Moon
  18. contrdry ro chac ot Gravier, beins equal to cho
  19. Fixcels ot che Graritation in Z, abore char in. C:
  20. And m che ocher case, the WVacer in N cendine les
  21. corvards he Noon than ehe Cenrre C, Wvill be
  22. dels press d, by 25 much as is che Disterence b1
  23. hie Glaritations rorard che Moon in C and in N
  24. This riphely understood, ic Follows plaintr, chaF
  25. the Sed, Wrhich ocherwise ould be Spticrical, up
  26. on the Pressure of che Moon, must Form ir se IH into
  27. a Spheloidal, or Oral Figure, whose longest Dia-
  28. metet is Where the Moon is Verrical, and Morcest
  29. Wohere (he is in the Horizon; and chac the Moor
  30. Pitittis her Polrion, a5 he curns round che Fariti
  31. once a Day, this Oral oF Wacer Citis wich hel
  32. occattetins chereby rhervo floods and Ebbs O
  33. serrable in cach 25 FTOurs.
  34. Andchis may suftice asto the general Cause ol
  35. the Tides: Ir remains non ro theu hou nacurally
  36. chis Mocion accounes FOr aII che Parriculars haL
  37. Hare been obserred aboutthem; (0 thar there can
  38. beno room lefr ro doube, buc chac chis is the rrue
  39. Caule chereof.
  40. The Sprineatides, uxon che Nem and Full Moons,
  41. and the Neap-tides, on che Ouarrers, are occasion d
  42. by che atcractire Force oF che Sun, in the Nem and
  43. Full, conspirins wwich che Actraction oF che Moon
  44. and producins a Tide by cheir uniced Forces:
  45. whereas in che Ouarters, the sun railes che Wacer
  46. eohere che Moon depresses ic, and on che contrarr:
  47. 1025 The Tides are made ouly by che Difference ot
  48. cheir Atrraction.
  49. Thatthe Torce oF che sun is no creater in ehis
  50. case, proceeds trom che very (mall Proporrion chC
  51. Semi diameter ot che Farrh bears 1o the vast Di
  52. stance ol che Sun.
  53. IE is also observed, Thar caeteris paribus, che
  54. Equinoctial Sprins tides in March and September, Or
  55. near them are che highest, and che Neap-tides the
  56. lovelt; Which proceeds from che grearer Agicari-
  57. on ofthe Warers, When che Auid Spheroid revolres
  58. about à great Circle ot che Farrh, than when ic
  59. curns abour in a lesser Circle; ic beins plain, char
  60. if che Moon ivere constitured in the Pole andthere
  61. Aood, thacche Spheroid rould have a fixr Posirion,
  62. ane chat ic ould be alwars Frizh. mater under che
  63. Poles, and Lom mater erery where under che Pqui-
  64. noctial; and cheretore che nearer che Moon ap
  65. proaches che Poles, the less is che Agirarion ot che
  66. Ocean, Which is oF all rhe grearest, when che
  67. Moon is in che Lquinoctial, or Farchest distane From
  68. the Poles.
  69. Vhence the, sun and Moon, Beine cicher con-
  70. Let A P F P BC the Farth corered BVeL WMI
  71. joyn d or oppolite in the Equinoctial, produce che or belo ic.
  72. Ereares Sprinstides; and che sublequent Neap-
  73. tides, beins produced by che Propical Moon in the
  74. Ouarters, are alvars ehe least Tides; whereas in
  75. June and December, the Soring-tides are made by
  76. he Fropicat sum and Moonus aid cherett aid
  77. tr
  78. b3
  79. comes to tiare a greacer Fffect in producing che
  80. Tides.
  81. Elictierto ive have considered sucti ARections OE
  82. the Fides, as are univertal, virtioue relation to par.
  83. ticular Cdes; Wvtiac follons trom che differins L. a
  84. Firndes oF Places Wilt DC casily WNILKNU V ee
  85. Follomns lisule.
  86. very decp WVaters, C ies Centre, P P itsPOleS, AF
  87. che Equinoctial, I fche Parallel ot Latitude oF à
  88. Ptace, Ld anocher Parallel ac equal Dsistance ot
  89. he other side oE the lquinoctial, HIh che civo
  90. Lomes irhere che noon ls reccca ad sec SL
  91. Bc the great Circle, Wherem the Moon apPedis
  92. LlOrIZOntal
  93. Tris erident, thac a Spheroid deleribed upon HB
  94. andIE I2; Pail nearly represent etie Figure ot the
  95. Sea; and C s
  96. C D; C F, C du Mall bC che
  97. Feighs oF the sea in the Places f; D, F, d; in 21B
  98. ertich ic is Figh mater: And secins chac in 12
  99. Ftours cime, by che Diurnal Roration of rhie Larth,
  100. che Point Lis transter d ro f and d 10 D: The
  101. fleishe oE che sea C F, will bethat of che Hish
  102. mater, Wvhenthe Noon is Prelent, and C f chiat oF
  103. The ocher Fish. mater, wrtien che Moon is ccet clc
  104. Carch; which in che cale ot chis Fisure, i5 lels
  105. chan che Former C F.
  106. And in the opposire Parallet D d, ehe contrary
  107. happens: The rilins oF the Warer beins alvays
  108. alternarely ereater and less in each place, wrhen il
  109. 15 produced by che Moon declinins senlibly from che
  110. Equinoctial; char beins the greatest oL the tvo
  111. Fich. maters in each Diurnal Rerolurion oE che
  112. Moon, Wherein she approaches nearest cixher cortie
  113. Zenith or Nadir ot the Place. Wrhence ic is, thac
  114. the noon in che Norchern Signs in ehis part of che
  115. WVorld, makes rhe grearest Tides when abore the
  116. Farch, and in Souchern Sions ivhen under che
  117. Farrh; elie FRect beine alvays the grearest wtere
  118. Ehie Moonis Farrhest trom the Foriron, cither abore
  119. And elis alcernate increale and decreale ot ehie
  120. Tidcs, has been oblerr d ro hotuctuc oH ine Loalt
  121. Ot Fneland, ac Bristol bY Caprain Scurmey, an dl ac
  122. nod cae

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