osc 
with the tafte of the time, and a was charged with Atheifm. 
The vice-chancellor of Oxford was urg oe to caufe the 
Elizabeth 7” 
OSBORNE, Perecrine, Duke of Leeds, was the 
a fon of fir Thomas Ofborne, bart., afterwards “ee 
a 
ey vifcount Latimer, and earl o 
Biog. Brit. 
ere- 
aes 
brought three heavy mafked batteries, of which the 
affailants were perfetly ignorant, fuddenly opened upon 
them, and r aon their utmoft exertions of no ava 
commande on this occafion narrow efcape, 
fhell erie in the fhip, killing a marine who ftood clofe - 
him. After his return from this unfortunate expedition, he 
was appointed. to command the fleet which convoyed "the 
king from Holland. In 1697 he was appointed clone of 
the firft regiment of marines ; t app 
that he had any fubfequent comm 
gular promotions, till he ened in ee the higheft rank 
m the fervice, viz. admiral and commander-in-chief of the 
fleet. In «712 he facceeded his father as duke of Leeds, 
and died in June 1729, the eae firft year of his age. 
Sharnock’s Biographia Novalis, vol.i 
SCARI, in eke a a town of Sardinia ; 23 miles 
S.E. of Caitel Aragonefe 
Voi. XXV. 
OSC 
OSCASATO, a a ss ple in the department of the 
Upper Po; 12 miles Cremona. 
OS a river of rh ‘he which runs into the Irtifch, 
oppofite to Comes in the government of Tobolfk 
OSCHA or OzZEK, a town of Saxon ny, in the mar- 
graviate of ve ‘fen, containing three churches, a college, 
and fome manufactures of cloth; 16 miles N.W. of Meiffen. 
N. lat. ou 18', _E. long. 13° 5’. 
OSCHEOCELE, from Oo EOYs the scrotum, me MAN a 
Jfwelling, in Surgery, a {crotal hernia: See gran 
OSCHERSLE » in Geograph own “Of Wet. 
s phalia, in the principality of Halberttadt, on ae Bode; 10 
miles N. N.E. 
of Halberftadt. N. lat. 50° 2/. E. long, 
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ae 
ae 
OSCHETZ KA, a pis of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 
ulm; 23 miles E. o 
OSCHOPHORIA, i in vo feafts inftituted by 
Thefeus, in he than for his caged deftroyed the 
inotaur, an that means freed his country, Athens, 
from the tribute of feven young men, who were to be fent 
every year into Crete, to be devoured by that vagal 
he word is formed — - Greek oryn, branch of a 
laden with grapes, a I bear. Plutarch fays, hey 
were fo named, ae datitated by Thefeus at his return 
to Athens, which happened to be at the time of vinta 
fi 
a 
To > beaks the Ofchophoria, — young people, who 
had fathers and mothers alive, ran to the temple of Bacchus 
and that of Minerva, with grapes in their hands. He, w 
arrived there firft, was the conqueror, and was to perform 
the facrifice, by pouring out of a phial a mixture a wine, 
honey, cheefe, flour, and oil. 
ILLA, {mall images of wax or clay, made in the 
fhape of men or women; bile) were confecrated to Sa- 
turn, in order to render him propitious. 
OSCILLATION, in Mechenicn aes 3 or the ree 
Sc ope and defcent . a pendul 
OscILLATION, Axis of, . ont iis parallel to the 
ap arent Tonsonul one, a paffing ith ia ot ; 
about which the pendulum eicilices: See Pen 
M. Huygens’s whole do€trine of ofcillation. ‘8 : founded 
on this hypothefis, that a common centre of gravity 
feveral bodies, conneCted to 
turn conjointly, or whether, after their e 
feparately ; each with the velocity it had then acquired 
This fuppofition was op by feveral, and very much 
fufpe&ed by others. who in o believe it 
true, yet thought it too La to be admitted into a {cience 
which demontftrates hae 
ngt 
At len 
JO 
17, A of the centre of ofcillation 
aaa, wae advanced by his brother, an 
Mem e fame Academy, for the year 1714: 
ftance whereof may be conceived as follows : 
AA fimple penduhim of a determinate length and bias eae 
raifed to a determinate height, whence it is to fall ti 
covers its vertical line, employs in that fall, or demi-vibra. 
tion, a determinate fpace of time, which can never poffibly 
be either greater or lefs. Which time is neceflarily fuch, 
becaufe the agitative force, i. e. the force which produces 
4M the 
aly n 
ie Center of Ofcil- 
nd publifhed in the 
the fub- 
