A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 729
me thenits inertia1, and friction, of all the parts ]in motion, which in watches is very in-confiderable, but in clocks is much great-er., and that in proportion as they aremore compounded. The manner that a weight acts upon thecylinder, about which the line or cord ](to which it hangs) is woiint,… … C L O [ 633 ] CLO and the manner how it acls upon thefufee always with an equal force, bymeans of the chain and the proper figureof the fufee, for that purpcle, is next tobe explained.The chain being fixed at one end of thefufee, and at the other to the barrel ;when the machine is winding up,…
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