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  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    was destined for the Beasts, the middle for the Food, and the upper for the Birds, with Noah and his Family; each Story being subdivided into different Apartments, Stalls, etc.—Though Josephus, Philo, and other Commentators, add a kind of fourth Story,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geometry

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    sizes, along with the Commissions of Oyer and Terminer. This Writ is as well of Things corporeal, as incorporeal Rights, being of four Sorts, viz. Assize, or Assise, of Novel Disseisin, which lies where a Tenant in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, or for Life, is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    Naturalists allow of two sorts of Allum; the one Native, the other Factitious. The Natural is found in the Island of Milo, being a kind of whitish Stone, very light, soft, and porous; and streaked with Filaments resembling silver. The Factitious Alum,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    of, may diffuse itself through the interstellar Spaces, and be the only Matter found therein. See AIR.In effect, Ether, being no Object of our Sense, but the mere Work of Imagination, brought only upon the Stage for the sake of Hypothesis, or to solve...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANAMORPHOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAMORPHOSIS

    each Areola whereof will appear equal to another. Hence, what is delineated in every Areola of the Craticular Prototype; being transferred into the Areolas of the Craticular Epitype: the Image will be distorted or deformed; yet an Eye being duly raised...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE

    to Creator, the other to Children. See RELATIVE. In the like Sense, the Schoolmen hold Absolute to imply a Thing's not being in ordine ad, in order to any other Thing. Thus, Man, Tree, &c. are Absolutes ; and every other Thing which has any real...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Philosophy

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    the Italian 20; the Indians of Bengal 21; the Baramas 19.The Ethiopic has no less than 202 Letters in its Alphabet, there being 7 Vowels, which they combine with each of their 26 Consonants; to which they add 20 other aspirated Syllables.— The like is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    of the containing Vessels in a Direction perpendicular to its Sides; which is evident in the Pulsation of the Arteries, it being to that Pressure that the Pulsation is owing. It is likewise evident, that the Blood is urged forward by the Force of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    BAPTISM. The Word is compounded of ἀνα (ana), denuo, again; and βάπτιζω (baptizo), I baptize; of βάπτω (bapto), I wash; it being their Practice to re-baptize such as had been baptized in their Infancy. There were Anabaptists even in the Primitive...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL

    a Being, which, besides the Power of growing, increasing, and producing its like, which Vegetables likewise have, is further endowed with Sensation, and spontaneous Motion. See BEING, SENSATION, and MOTION. The Word Animal is derived from the Latin...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    CLERGY, PRIEST, &c. In those early Days, the Abbots were subject to the Bishops, and the ordinary Pastors. Their Monasteries being remote from Cities, built in the farthest Solitudes, they had no share in Ecclesiastical Affairs. They went on Sundays to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    at large under the Article Capillary Tube. As to Planes—Two smooth polished Plates of Glass, Metal, Stone, or other Matter, being so disposed as to be almost contiguous, have the Effect of several parallel capil- lary Tubes; and the Fluid rises in them...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    have a grammatical, a rhetorical, and a musical accent; though the first and last seem, in effect, to be the same, both being comprised under the general name of tonic accents because they give the proper tone to syllables, as the rhetorical accents are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    by some Oily Humour; and accordingly are reducible by Fire into such Earth again. See EARTH, FIRE, SOLIDS, etc. Thus, a Bone being perfectly purged of all its Moisture, by Calcination, is found a mere Earth, which the least force will crumble into Dust,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    which contain the same number of degrees of unequal circles. See Similar—Such are the arches AB and DE, fig. 87. Two Radii being drawn from the center of two concentric circles; the two arches intercepted between them, bear the same ratio to their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    are more or less pure, and mixed in this, or that Proportion.The Chemists are as much divided as the Naturalists, Amber being found by Distillation to yield an acid Spirit, which precipitates into a Salt; is inferred, by some, to be of a mineral Nature;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    denoted by a single Letter affixed to the Vertex, or angular Point, as A; and sometimes by three Letters, that of the Vertex being in the middle, as BAC. The Measure of an Angle, whereby its Quantity is expressed, is an Arc, DE, described from its...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geometry

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See WIND. This Instrument, Descartes and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See Wind. This Instrument, Descartes and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    the Crowds of Pilgrims from all Parts to the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, used to lodge.—The Method of Conveyance in those Parts being on Camels; and those Creatures when in Cyrene, a Province of Egypt wherein that celebrated Temple stood, urinating in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History
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