ORR 
phenomenon, ce is taking place in han cael place in ee 
h 
the bodies are movin ng t 
tion of about 30° with the planet’s orbit, and the line of 
early be put pare allel to a diameter of 
20° §2' to 118 20° 52/, 
but when the parallelifm of the ring is preferved 
ear; 
by the mechanifm, frequent adjuftments are unneceflary. 
The planes of all the orbits of Saturn’s feven fatellites are 
nearly parallel to that of the ring, except that of the feventh, 
which is fuppofed to make an angle of about 16° with the 
The orbits of the fatellites of 
e in the 
mmo 
reprefented as being parallel to the orbits of vt ia 
which reprefentation gives a falfe idea 0 the 
We migh 
arying pro 
ed in in detailing the various 
otion, that sauna the fubjeéts of aftro- 
on vs furface of the globe, that indicate at all 
the lamps are ufed, the vertical places of thofe 
luminaries, or the places where they would be feen through 
the earth’s furface, fuppofed to be tranfparent,’when viewed 
from the centre of the earth; for as the earth’s furface is 
globular, and parallel to the apparent circle of the heavens, 
any meafurements of angles, or of angular diftances, as they 
regard the circles furrounding the earth, wiil have the fame 
reference to thefe luminous points, as actual meafurements 
un’s and moon’s places feen in the 
pearances, Coretties with the 
places to which they are vifible, in a manner that is truly 
gratifying. 
eget ret formed of opos, ferum, and wyw, I dra 
away, ven by the ancients to fuch eines as 
ped woken, as purges, and evacuated ee and 
ou 
IGION, a word ufed by ene aul- 
, fometimes to exprefs the extremity of the fpine, but 
more e ieauedily the line or feam which runs from the penis 
along the middle of the fcrotum to the a 
RRHOPISSA, a name given by he ‘ancients to the 
thinner or more fluid parts of tar. 
RRIA, in Gengrap, a town of Spain, in Aragon ; 
g miles N. of Ter 
ORRICE, a aane given by the vulgar to the iris 
root. 
ORS 
ORRINGTON, in Geography, a town of America, in 
Hancock county, Maine, at the py of the tide on the 
fide of Penobfcot river, oppofite to the towns of Ban ngor 
and Hamden; 32 miles northerly from Cafline, and contain- 
ing 785 inhabitants 
ORRIO, Et, a : town of Spain, in Bifcay ; 15 miles 
S.E. of Bilbao 
ORRON Water, a river of pe which runs inte 
the Frith of Cromarty, at Bers tar 
ORRSVILLE, a to of Am merica, in Grainger 
county, and ftate of Tenneffee gor a from Wafhington. 
ORRUS, in Botany, a name ich many of the an- 
cients called the cultivated pine-tree, oo its being remark- 
ably full of juice. 
The firft perfon who has given us the name is Theo 
phraftus; but he is followed in it not only by the other 
Greeks, but alfo by the Latins, who have called the fame 
n this he errs; for Vitruvius, and tee tell us, tee the 
pine sha nuces ae whic eaten and ufed in m edi- 
cine, were the fruit of the fapapinus, or fapinus ; and it is 
— aie ae nut be the produce sae a pine-tree, not 
a pitch-tree, or any thing of the fir k 
~ OR SARA, in Geography, a town of Naples in Capita- 
nata; 4 miles §. of Troja. 
ORSATO, Szrrorio, in Biography, an eminent anti- 
quarian, was born at Padua in the year 1 a ver 
early age he exhibited a great turn for literary and {cientific 
purfuits, and occupied himfelf very much in the ftudy of 
ancient monuments and in{criptions. In the latter part of 
his life he was appointed profeffor of afual philofophy in 
the pond ‘sl Padua. He died in 1678, leaving behind 
him many w of great erudition, as well in the Latin as in 
the Italian Eagiee — efe the principal are, « Monu- 
menta Patavina;’’? *“* Commentarius de notis Romanorum,”’ 
a ae treatife refpecting oe marks and abbreviations ufed 
by t omans in their writings and inf{criptions ; it was 
publithed i in the eleventh volume of the collection of Gre- 
vius, and afterwards at Paris in 1723; “ Eeenomiles Cogno- 
mina, et gnomina So Roman orum 3 eorum, 
arumque Nomina Attributa ;”’ or 
Padua,”’ in the Tealian language ‘ito, 6 aes nd Ora- 
tions,’’ in Italian and Latin. He was a member of various 
ee focieties. 
A, in Geography, a — of Ruffia, in the 
government of Mogilev, on the Dnieper 5 40 miles N. of 
Mogilev. N. lat. 54° 30!. or 
RSERA, a fea-port town of Tftria a, feated on a hill, 
with a fine harbour, which affords fhelter in tempeftuous 
weather. It is populous, and the refidence of the bifhop of 
Parenzo; 4 miles N. of Rovigno 
RSI, Leto, in Biography, ealed Lelio da Novellara, 
from.the chief place of his refidence, after being exiled from 
his native city, Reggio, was by fome thought to have been 
a pupil of Correggio, by others of Michael Angelo, becaufe 
ie was contemporary of both, and had fomething of either 
in his ftyle and colour. Little remains of his works, except 
fome frefcoes in the ducal palace of Modena, and a copy of 
the Notte by Correggio, which is preferved in the palace 
Gazzola at Verona. He was born in 1511, and died at the 
age o 
70+ 
Orsi, 
Fe 
FRAnNcIs ae AUGUSTINE, a learned Italian 
cardinal, was het in bate in ae In early life he em- 
braced t naftic ftate in the Dominican order, and applied 
with fach fuccefs to his feudies, ie he was feleGed to fill 
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