Volume 1

A general dictionary of arts and sciences: or a complete system of literature ... Poetry ... and theology / by ... James Scott ... The mathematical branches by Mr. Charles Green ... Naval and marine affairs ... by Mr. William Falconer ... Botany and gardening, by Mr. James Meader ... And the other branches of literature, by a society of gentlemen.

Date:: 1765-1766

Credit: A general dictionary of arts and sciences: or a complete system of literature ... Poetry ... and theology / by ... James Scott ... The mathematical branches by Mr. Charles Green ... Naval and marine affairs ... by Mr. William Falconer ... Botany and gardening, by Mr. James Meader ... And the other branches of literature, by a society of gentlemen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$. Elongation, or ’ : S 2 ) diftance, from Aberration in longitude. “fthe fun, feen ; fromthe earth,| Mars |Jupiter|Saturn Signs. Deg. Sec. Sec. | Sec. A 0. XI o/—36)—28}—26!|Sup.6 of = 43 15} 35, 28} 25 Ts) 4tl. I... XT.0} 6 32},2-26].. 23 30]... 34 45). PBK 2245-20 451. 19 8 CR arom 23 18 16] |Greateft. digr. 14 15 17}. 14} 11 AS 9 BD BX 0}. F2h.F~ Ss. 0} 20 A 10 BSD s. yd L5(7ei3 IV.VHI of 9 3)-+ wt 4 Iuferi.é. Of; i3 I O 15 5 ‘ VU NII. 0} 4-2) 48} 43 Mercury’s aberration in longitude. Diftance of the fun. Aphel. | Mean dift} Perihel. Deg.} “Sec. ~|> “Sec, Sec. Superior part Oo} —49 | —51 | —55 of the orbit. 5} 648 59 54 10} 46 48 49 15] 43 43} 38 20| 38 33 | oat 0 fe Greateft digreffion 17 18 19 25 § : :: 20} + 1] + 4 Inferior part rer ic 8 5 fe) _Jof the orbit. 10 7 g | +10 9 9 When Mercury is fome degrees from his greateft fully had from aitronomical tables or ephemerides, and his aberration be made out from the firft table of the planet’s abberration, Mercury’s abberration in latitude, at his defcend- ing node is 43; that of the other planets is not near fo much.— The fun’s aberration is conftantly 20° in longitude; but may alter its declination 8” near the equinoxes, and is nothing about the fol- ftices. —T he moon’s aberration never amounts to one fecond. ABERRATION, in optics, a deviation of the rays of light, refracted by a {pherical lens, or refiected by a fpherical fpeculum, and therefore cannot unite in one and the fame focal point. . See SpEcu- LuM, Lens, and Focus. : ABETTOR, in law, implies a perfon who en- eourages another to perform fome criminal action, or who feconds and affifts him in the performance itfelf. “See the article AccEssoRyY, ABE But though there may be abettors in felony, murders, &c. there can be none in treafon; the law confidering every individual concerned in trea- fon as a principal. ABEYANCE, ABEIaNcE, or ABBAYANCE, in law books, fignifies fomething that exifts in ex- pectation or remembrance only. ‘Thus if a church becomes vacant by the death. abeyance, till anew rector, &c. is appointed and inducted ; for the patron has not the fee, but mere- ly the right of prefenting to it, the freehold itfelf being in the incumbent thus prefented, and confe- quently, till fuch prefentation is made, in nobody. © ABIB, the name given by the Jews to the frft month of their facred or ecclefiattical: year : it was It. commenced at the vernal equinox, and, according to the courfe of the moon, by which their months were regulated, anfwered to the latter part of March and the be- . ginning of April. . Before the Jews. were led away captive into Egypt, their year began in the month Tifri, which isour September, But afterwards when they came out of Egypt, it was ordained by God, that the facred year, or calendar of feafts, and ceremonies, &c. fhould commence in the month Abib, which is the feventh month of the civil year. This word is Hebrew, and fignifies an ear of corn: this month was probably fo called, becaufe at that feafon the firft corn was ripe in Paleftine. ABIES, TREE. AB-INTESTATE, in the civil law, is applied to a perfon who inherits from one. who died in- teftate, or without a will. See INTESTATE. < ABISHERING, in old law books, implies the being exempt from all amercements, and tranf- reflions of any kind. ABJURATION, in our ancient cuftoms, im- plied an oath taken by a perfon guilty of felony, and who had fled to a place of fanctuary, whereby he folemnly engaged to leave the realm for ever. ABJURATION is now ufed to fignity the re- nouncing, difclaiming, and denying upon oath, the pretender to have any manner of right to the. throne of thefe kingdoms. ABJURATiON OF HeEREsy, the folemn recanta- tion of fome doétrine as falfe and wicked. . ABLACTATION, the act of weaning a child from the breaft. See the article WEANING. ABLACTATION, in horticulture, is a term for- merly ufed for a particular methed of grafting, called, by modern gardeners, inarching, or grafting by approach. See GRAFTING by approach. ABLAQUEATION, in gardening, the art of. the fir-tree. See the article Fir- trees in winter, that they may be more readily ex- pofed$

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