Category: Mathematics
As your Society even _ab origine_ hath deservedly acquired an eminency in many respects above others of this kind; so more especially for the pregnancy of its Members in the composing of _Peals_. For when the Art of _Cross-pricking_ lay enveloped in such obscurity, that it was...
As your Society even _ab origine_ hath deservedly acquired an eminency in many respects above others of this kind; so more especially for the pregnancy of its Members in the com...
2. Part 2If we consider the multitude of different words, wherewith we express our selves in Speech, it may be thought almost impossible that such numbers should arise out of twenty four...
3. Part 3_Observ. 2d._ The Learner must rightly apprehend the places of the notes, which I think cannot better be done than by this means. Considering that the notes of a peal of bells d...
4. Part 4The hunting note has here moved through its assigned number; for whereas at first it did lead, now it strikes behind them. Wherein ’tis observable, that it made up changes all t...
5. Part 5In the Sixscore changes, four of the notes do make the Twenty four changes, and the fifth note hunts continually through them: so that the course and method of the Sixscore is i...
6. Part 6The method of the Seven hundred and twenty, hath an absolute dependency upon the method of the Sixscore changes on five bells; for five of the notes are to make the sixscore cha...
7. Part 7All peals of _doubles_ upon five bells, which go sixty changes compleat without any _single_, by making of two _extreams_ they will go 120. And also all peals of _doubles_ upon...
8. Part 8The treble hath a direct hunting course as in plain changes, and every other bell hath also a like hunting course with that of the treble except when the _bobs_ hinder. The _bob...
9. Part 9This Peal consists most of _double_ changes. The treble hath a direct hunting course as in plain changes, and every time it hunts up and down it makes a _single_ in the _3d_ and...
10. Part 10_Doubles and Singles._ Treble is the _whole-hunt_, and lieth four times before, four times behind and twice in every other place. When it moves down out of the _5th_ place, the...
11. Part 11_Triples and Doubles._ The Treble hath a direct hunting course, and when it moves up out of the second place, the two first bells dodg until it comes there again; and also when...
12. Part 12The _grounds_ of these _sett-changes_ are of two kinds. First, placing of the bells _Fifths_, or secondly _Thirds_. To place them _fifths_; the 4 must hunt up behind the 7, the...
13. Part 13The ordinary course is to move directly, except when the _whole-hunt_ passes either out of or into the _second_’s place, and then constantly dodg behind. There are single and do...
14. Part 14In this peal, first, the two hindmost bells dodg till the _whole-hunt_ hindreth them, till the first _single_ is made: and then the two formost bells dodg ’till the _whole-hunt_...
15. Part 15In this peal Treble is a perfect Hunt. Every other time Treble is leaving the _3ds_ place hunting up, the bells before dodg till it comes and parts them: the bells behind dodg b...