Cyclopædia
Assuming eye is required, the following 56 results were found.
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
Quintil. Each part of the body is by them enlisted into the service and marshaled in its proper place: The hand, the eye, head, neck, sides, cheeks, nostrils, lips, arms, shoulders, etc. "Precipuum in Actione, Caput est—Cum gestu concordet, & Lateribus...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT
where a single Figure is so contrived, as to represent two or more different Objects, either by changing the Position of the Eye, or by means of angular Glasses.— Instances hereof see under the Articles Mirror, Catoptrick Cistula, Anamorphosis, etc....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Perspective
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ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT
or fellow-officer, associated to another, to assist him in his ministry, to share the functions thereof, or even have an eye to his actions. See COLLEAGUE. Ad Fure Regis is a writ that lies for the King's Clerk, against him that sought to eject him, to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE
the Substantive to which the Particle A is affixed, begin with a Vowel, or an H; we write and speak it, An: So we say, An Eye, an Hour, &c. Some Grammarians make the Article a distinct Part of Speech; others will have it a Pronoun; and others, with Mr....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY
to each other: In this Sense, the Gills of Fishes are said to be analogous to the Lungs in terrestrial Animals: and thus, the Eye and the Understanding are said to bear an Analogia to each other. ANALOGY
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS
Paradise ; alledging, that there was no other Union between Adam and Eve, but that of Hearts. He adds, they had likewise an Eye to the Practice of Abel, whom they held to have been married, but never to have known his Wise : and from, him they deriv'd...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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APERTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERTURE
a Telescope, or Microscope; through which the Light and Image of the Object come into the Tube, and are thence carried to the Eye. See OBJECT-GLASS. Aperture is also understood of the Part of the Object Glass itself, which covers the former, and which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE
a Ray which is a Tangent to the Earth, and strikes upon this last Surface of the Atmosphere, and is thence reflected to our Eye, being still a Tangent, and horizontal.—If there were no Atmosphere, there would be no Crepusculum; and consequently if the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APPARENT MAGNITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARENT%20MAGNITUDE
to the apparent ones; and if the apparent Diameters be equal, the true Diameters will be as the Distances from the Eye. Hence, when neither the Distances nor the apparent Diameters are equal, the true Diameters will be in a Ratio compounded of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE
equal. See MAGNITUDE and VISION. Angles of the Interval, of two places, is the Angle subtended by two Lines directed from the Eye to those places. Angle of Incidence, in Catoptrics, is the lesser Angle made by an incident Ray of Light, with the Plane of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APPARENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARENT
that which is visible, evident to the Eye, or the Understanding. See APPEARANCE. Heir Apparent. See HEIR APPARENT. APPARENT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANALEMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALEMMA
or Projection of the Sphere, on the Plane of the Meridian, orthographically made, by straight Lines and Ellipses; the Eye being supposed to be at an infinite Distance; and in the East or West Points of the Horizon. See PLANISPHERE, PROJECTION, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALDEBARANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALDEBARAN
of the first Magnitude, in the Head of the Sign or Constellation Taurus, or the Bull; and hence popularly called the Bull's Eye. Its Longitude, Latitude, etc. see among the rest of the Constellation Taurus. ALDEBARAN
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ANIMALCULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALCULE
Animalculum, is a Diminutive of Animal; and expresses such a minute Creature as is scarce discernible by the naked Eye. Such are those numerous Insects which crowd the Water in the Summer Months; changing it sometimes of a deep, or pale red, sometimes a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMPHIBLESTROIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPHIBLESTROIDES
in Anatomy, a Tunic, or Coat of the Eye, more usually called Retina. See RETINA. The Word is Greek, amphiblestroides, from amphiblestron, Rete, Net; compounded of amphi, circum, around, blestron, I cast; and eidos, Form; by reason of its Net-like...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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ACINIFORMIS TALICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACINIFORMIS%20TALICA
ACINIFORMIS TALICA, the same with the Tunica Uvea of the Eye. See UVEA. ACINIFORMIS TALICA
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified