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  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    that which the Ancients called Astrology being by us termed Astronomy. See ASTRONOMY. Astrology may be divided into two Branches, Natural and Judicial. To the former belong the predicting of natural Effects; as, the Changes of Weather, Winds, Storms,...

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

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

    or defense. See BUILDING, EDIFICE, etc. Architecture is usually divided, with respect to its objects, into three branches: Civil, Military, and Naval. Civil Architecture, called also absolutely and by way of eminence Architecture, is the art of...

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

  • AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC

    or Fauagus Agaricus, in pharmacy, a kind of fungous excrescence growing on the trunks, and large branches of several trees; but chiefly on the larch-tree, and certain oaks. See FUNGUS. Dioscorides derives its name from a province of Sarmatia, called...

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

  • ARBOURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBOUR

    to be moist, are unwholesome. They are distinguished into natural and artificial. Natural Arbours, are formed only of the branches of trees, interwoven artfully, and borne up by strong latticework, poles, hoops, etc., which make galleries, halls,...

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

  • ADVANCERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVANCER

    among hunters, is one of the starts, or branches of a buck's attire, between the back antler and the palm. See ATTIRE, HEAD, etc. ADVANCER

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

  • AVAUNCHERShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVAUNCHERS

    among Hunters, the second Branches of a Hart’s Horn. See HEAD, HUNTING, etc. AVAUNCHERS

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

  • AVERRUNCATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/agriculture/AVERRUNCATION

    in Agriculture, the act of scraping, cutting, or lopping off the superfluous branches of trees. See PRUNING. AVERRUNCATION

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

  • ANIMAL MOTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20MOTION

    MOTION is the same with what we call Muscular Motion. See MUSCULAR MOTION. It is divided into two Branches; Natural or Involuntary, and Spontaneous. See NATURAL and SPONTANEOUS. ANIMAL MOTION

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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    of Canada, or the Cape of Good Hope. THE Protection of Arts has ever been esteemed the proper Province of the Great. 'Tis a Branch of the Regal Office; which a Prince, like Your Majesty, equal to the whole Charge of a Crown, will not suffer to be...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    of the modern Philosophers, have some of them been reduced to precise Laws and Demonstrations; in which form they make a Branch of Mathematics, called Pneumatics, or Aerometry. See MATHEMATICS, PNEUMATICS, and AEROMETRY. Mechanical Properties and...

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

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

    it, (for they say it is visible) do thus describe it : In the highost Part of the Roof of those Passages in a Mine, which branch out from the main Grove, they see a round Thing hanging, about as big as a FootBall, covered with a Skin of the Thickness...

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

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

    Arabicus, something that relates to Arabia, or the Arabs. Arabic, or Arabic Language, is a Branch or Dialect of the Hebrew. See LANGUAGE and HEBREW. Father Angelo de St. Joseph speaks much of the Beauty and Copiousness of the Arabic. He assures us it...

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

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

    Author. Algebra has been also applied to the Consideration and Calculus of Infinites; from whence a new and very extensive Branch of Knowledge has arisen, called the Doctrine of Fluxions, or Analysis of Infinites, or the Calculus Differentials. See...

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

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

    are Animals reconverted into their Vegetable Nature, by Putrefaction. See PUTREFACTION. Animals make the Subject of that Branch of Natural History called Zoology; see ZOOLOGY. The Structure of Animals, with their Disorders, Remedies, etc., make the...

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

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

    signifies, Resolution; formed of ἀνά (ana), and λύω (luo), folvo, resolvo, I loosen, I resolve. Analysis makes one great Branch or Species of Method; called also Resolution. See METHOD, and RESOLUTION. Analysis, in Mathematics, a Method of solving, or...

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

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

    Oblongata, and distributed, 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...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    RIVER, TIDE, AIR, ATMOSPHERE, etc. In effect, the Motions arising from this Principle make the subject of that extensive branch of Mathematics, called Mechanics, or Statics; with the parts or appendages thereof, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, etc. See...

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

  • AGRICULTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRICULTURE

    &c. See PLANTING, TRANSPLANTING, PRUNING, ENGRAFTING, TIMBER, TREE, &c. Even Gardening, or Horticulture itself, is only a Branch of Agriculture. See GARDEN and GARDENING. The Word is form’d of the Latin Ager, Field, and cultura, of colo, I till. Among...

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

  • ABRACADABRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABRACADABRA

    Grave-stones. 'Tis added, that moft of the Fathers ascribe the Fable of the God GREEK, to Basilides and his Followers, a Branch of Gnostics. See BASILIDIANS. The Gnostics, 'tis known, suppofed wondersul Virtues in Numbers ; and accordingly, this same...

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

  • AEROMETRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEROMETRY

    etc., of that fluid. See ELASTICITY, RAREFACTION, etc. The term "Aerometry" is not commonly used; instead, this branch of philosophy is usually referred to as Pneumatics. See PNEUMATICS. C. Wolfius, Professor of Mathematics at Halle, having reduced many...

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