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  • ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE

    the Tangent of 9°. 00' = 9.199712 Sum is the Sine of 11°. 29' = 9.299107 which is the ascensional Difference required; and being re- duced into Time, by allowing four Minutes of an Hour for every Degree, it will be 44’. 29”. See TIME. If the Sun be in...

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

  • ADOPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTION

    whence came adoubare, to make a Knight: whence also Miles adoubatus, a Knight newly made or dubbed; he who knighted him, being said in some sense to adopt him. See KNIGHT. The custom of adopting was very familiar among the ancient Romans, who had an...

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

  • ANEMOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOMETER

    See WIND. The Anemometer is variously contrived. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have one described, wherein the Wind being supposed to blow directly against a flat Side, of Board which moves along the graduated Limb of a Quadrant; the Number of...

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    lords of whom they held in fee, or to whom they were the most devoted. Arms, at present, follow the nature of titles, which being made hereditary, these are also become so; being the several marks for distinguishing of families and kindreds, as names...

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

  • ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO

    of Spain, during the Farm, or Asiento; which was fixed at 33 Pieces of Eight per Head.—By the Treaty of Utrecht, Philip V. being acknowledged King of Spain by the Allies; it was one of the Articles of the Peace between England and France, that the...

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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    that no one Instance is to be met withal of such Bearing ; and that it implies a Contradiction to suppose it. Arms, being Insignia Nobilitatis & Honoris, cannot admit of any Mark of Infamy, without ceasing to be Arms, and becoming Badges of Disgrace ;...

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

  • ANOMALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ANOMALY

    its Aphelion A. And hence, in the Sun’s Motion, it will be the distance of his true place, from the Apogee. The true Anomaly being given, the mean one is easily found; but it is difficult to find the true Anomaly from the mean one given. The Geometrical...

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

  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    the one to the Ear, the other to the Tongue, Eye, etc. See EAR and TONGUE. The soft and spongy Branch of the Auditory Nerve being diffused through the Labyrinth and Tympanum of the Ear, is the immediate Organ of the Sense of Hearing. See HEARING. The...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    Mr. Evelyn. Fr. Blondel, Director of the Royal Academy of Painting, &c. in 1698, gave a Course of Architecture, in French, beinga collection from all the celebrated writers upon the subject of the Orders, &c.—Nich. Goldmann, in a Treatise deStylometris,...

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    and that the same holds of all the other Aspirates. This is a Paradox in Grammar ; but 'tis not the less true for being a Paradox. See ASPIRATE, and CONSONANT. Of all the Letters, A is observ'd to be that which dumb Persons are soonest taught to...

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

  • ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM

    EXTENSION, MATTER, etc. As atoms are the first matter, 'tis necessary they should be indissoluble, in order to their being incorruptible.—Sir Isaac Newton adds, that 'tis also required they be immutable, in order to the world's continuing in the same...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    See ANALYTIC. This Method, under its present Improvements, must be allowed the Apex or Height of all human Learning; being the great Instrument or means whereby so many surprising Discoveries have been of late Years made, both in Mathematics, and...

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

  • APPARENT PLACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/optics/APPARENT%20PLACE

    APPARENT PLACE of any Object, in Optics, is that wherein it appears, when seen through one or more Glasses. See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc. The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays...

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

  • ARTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ARTERY

    or Beating. The Arteries are ordinarily composed of three Coats or Membranes. The first or outermost, nervous or tendinous; being a Thread of fine Blood Vessels with Nerves, for nourishing the other Coats. The second muscular, made up of circular, or...

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

  • ASBESTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASBESTOS

    the Mixture of some other very pliant substance, as Wool, Linen or Hemp along with it; the Filaments of the Amianthus itself being too brittle to make any tolerably fine Works.—See further of the natural History, Preparation, Manufacturing, &c. of this...

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

  • ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION

    exceed 9, the excess is only to be written down, and the rest reserved to be carried to the next row and added thereto, as being of the same kind or denomination. Suppose, e.g., the numbers 1357 and 172 were given to be added; write either of them,...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    and convicted, or outlawed thereon. Where the Principal is pardoned without Attainder, the Accessory cannot be arraigned; it being a Maxim in Law, Ubi non est principalis, non potest esse Accessorius. But if the Principal be pardoned, or have his Clergy...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    of the Sun to the Centre of the Planet, always sweeps or describes Elliptic Areas proportional to the Times. Thus, the Sun being supposed in S, and a Planet in A, (Tab. Astronomy, Fig. 65) and letting it proceed in any given Time, to B. In such...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    as they all represent the same line in different situations: This is an axiom. See DEFINITION. Hence, the truth of axioms being perceived by the mere intuition of a definition; they need no demonstration: since they are necessarily as true, as the...

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    give different Etymologies of this Word.—Some derive it from the Greek ἄγκυλος, crooked: Varro derives it ab Ancisus as being cut or arched on the two Sides, like the Bucklers of the Thracians, called Pelta. Plutarch thinks the Word may be derived from...

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