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  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    the Italians their il, lo, and la.—The French their le, la, and les.—The English also have two Articles, A and The; which being prefixed to Substantives, apply their general Signification to some particular Thing.—Thus we say, A Man; that is, some Man...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    The Antipodes have the same degree of Heat and Cold as well as the same length of Night, and Day; but at contrary times. It being Midnight with one when it is Noon with the other; and the longest Day with one, when shortest with the other. See HEAT,...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    by means of Equations. See PROBLEM, and EQUATION. Some Authors define Algebra the Art of solving all Problems capable of being solved: But this is rather the Idea of Analysis, or the Analytic Art. See ANALYSIS.The Arabs call it, the Art of Restitution...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    falling on a Table, collect into little Globules, to avoid the contrary Quality in the Table, and keep themselves from being swallowed up by the dry Wood: but this we can account for on more intelligible Principles, viz. the Power of Attraction, and...

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

  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    Legs of the same Side, move at the same time. See PACE. The ambling Horse changes Sides at each remove; two Legs of a side being in the Air, and two, on the ground, at the same time: An Amble is usually the first natural Pace of young Colts; which, as...

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

  • ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE

    ASYMPTOTE, in Geometry, a Line which continually approaches nearer and nearer to another, yet will never meet there with, though indefinitely prolonged. See LINE. The Word is compounded of the privative Particle α, συν, with, and πζοω, I fall ; g.d....

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    that a man was said to be convicted presently upon the verdict; but not attainted till it appeared he was no clerk, or being a clerk, and demanded by his ordinary, could not purge himself. See CLERGY.—add, that attainder is more extensive than...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    at a time prescribed. See BILL OF EXCHANGE. The acceptance is usually performed by him on whom the bill is drawn, upon its being presented to him by the person in whose behalf it was drawn or his order. While the acceptor is the master of his signature,...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    led by the clearness of the Weather in the Summer Season, as in Egypt and Syria, where the Stars are constantly seen, there being no Rain or Clouds to interrupt the Prospect. And the want of this clearness of Atmosphere the same Author lays down as the...

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

  • DEGENERATION,https://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology/DEGENERATION,

    Dispute among Naturalists, whether or no Animals, Plants, &c. be capable of degenerating into other Species. The Affirmative being urged by many as a strong Objection against the Plant, &c. being contain'd in the Seed; and the Doctrine of Generation,...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and primarily, is only applicable where the power might exist without being drawn into action; yet the Schoolmen extend it further, defining it by the presence of any power or perfection, even though...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    a Film grown over it, and then corrupts, and becomes Pestilential. The fourth, is theFulminating,or Fire-Damp, whose Vapour being touch'd by the Flame of the Candles, presently takes Fire, and has all the Essect s of Lightning, or sired Gun-powder....

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    would make a volume—The principal may be reduced to these which follow. 1°, Some take it for the excrement of a bird, which being melted by the heat of the sun, and washed off the shore by the waves; is swallowed by whales; who return it back in the...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    Among Physicians, the Arm only includes that part between the Shoulder and the Elbow; the rest, from the Elbow to the Wrist, being taken into the greater Hand. See HAND. The Arm, in this latter Acceptation, has only one large Bone, called the Humerus,...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    all Diseases. See ELIXIR. 3°, An Universal Dissolvent, or Alkahest. See ALKAHEST.4°, An Universal Ferment; or a Matter which being applied to any Seed, shall increase its Fecundity to Infinity: e.g., if it be applied to Gold, it changes the Gold into...

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

  • ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION

    made by some of the Organs of Speech; and therefore must either be a Vowel or a Consonant.—The former it cannot be, as not being a simple Sound, or a Sound that may be pronounced by itself. It must therefore be a Modificative, or Consonant; and in...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    method of which, as practiced in Hungary, is given us by Dr. Krieg, in the Philosophical Transactions, N° 293.—The Cobalt being beaten to powder, and the light sandy part washed off, by a current of water, they put what remains in a furnace; the flame...

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

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    mentioned.The Juice or Extract of Aloes, is usually distinguished into three Kinds—The first, which is called Succotrine as being brought from Socotra, is the purest and most transparent; being friable, inodorous, black in the Lump, but of a beautiful...

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

  • ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC

    so satisfied of their Novelty, that he immediately pronounced a Silver Medallion he was consulted about, Modern; upon his being told of the Numeral Figures 234, 235, being on it. The common Opinion is, that Planudes, who lived towards the Close of the...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    an admirable Instance of the Wisdom of the Creator. The proper Food of these Creatures, especially the Insect-Tribe, being now wanting ; there is a Provision for 'em to live without it. When the Fields are diverted of their slowery Furniture, when the...

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