Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth ... Tr. from the Original French ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1763 - Natural history |
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afcend Affiftance alfo Alidad Angle of Incidence Arch Axis Bafe becauſe Body Center Circle Circumference confequently confifts Degrees Dial diftant Diſtance Divifion Earth equal Equator Equilibrium faftened fame Fathoms fecond feen fenfible ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fingle firft firſt fmall fome fometimes fquare Feet ftill fuch fufficient fuppofe fure Glafs Ground half himſelf horary Horizon Image Inftrument Interfection itſelf laft leffer lefs Lever likewife Logick Meaſure meridian Circle meridian Line Mirrour moft moſt moveable muft multiplied muſt neceffary Number obferve Object oblique oppofite pafs parallel Parallelogram Perpendicular Philofophers placed Plane pleaſe Pleaſure Pofition Point Pounds Weight Power prefent Proportion Pulley Radius raiſe Rays Reaſon Refiftance reprefents right Angle Senfes Shadow ſhall Side ſmall Surface Tallage thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thouſand tion traverfed Triangle Trundle Head Underſtanding univerfal Uſe Wheel whofe whole