A Chymical Dictionary

Mangonaria

Operations instruments and practitioners · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. An art defined through the handling or alteration of heaviness.

In the book. Mechanopeotica and Organopeotica also classify practical arts by their ends: water-works and warlike instruments.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360.

Historical Definition

Mangonaria is an art employed with weights, by which what has been made heavy is readily made light.

Meaning

The definition describes what the art achieves, not the device by which it works. It leaves open whether a particular passage concerns an arrangement of weights, a way of moving a burden, or another application. The reader should not supply an unmentioned mechanism as part of the dictionary’s statement.

Use in the Book

Mechanopeotica and Organopeotica also classify practical arts by their ends: water-works and warlike instruments. This family of definitions gives a field of activity without necessarily explaining its engineering.

Places to Read

Mechanopeotica. An inventive art exemplified by raising and conveying water.

Organopeotica. The invention of warlike instruments.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 32; facsimile PDF page 360 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 360, Mangonaria

See also. Mechanopeotica; Organopeotica