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  • AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON

    feast flew out of his hands, and taking a round, returned thither again. Apel. c. 10. §, 1Among automata are reckoned all mechanical engines which go by springs, weights, etc. included within them; such are clocks, watches, etc. See SPRING, PENDULUM,...

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

  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and tergo, I wipe.---— Whence, also, Abtersion is sometimes used for the mechanical Act of Tersion, or Wiping. See TERSION. ABSTERGEANS

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

  • ARBORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARBOR

    ARBOR, in natural history, botany, etc. See TREE. Arbor in chemistry—Arbor Philosophica, is a name common to several metalline crystallizations; thus called from their ramifications resembling a tree. See CRYSTALLIZATION. Such are the Arbor Dianae,...

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

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

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    ACCELERATION, in Mechanicks, the Increase of Velocity in a moving Body. See VELOCITY, and ACCELERATED MOTION. Deceleration stands directly opposed to Retardation, which denotes a Diminution of Velocity. See RETARDATION. Acceleration is chiefly used in...

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

  • ANIMATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMATE

    ANIMATE, Animare, something endued with Life or a living Soul. See LIFE and SOUL. Thus, in Mechanics, animate Power is used to denote a Man or Brute; in contradistinction to inanimate ones, as Springs, Weights, etc. See POWER, etc. ANIMATE

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