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  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    Ἀγκύλος, in Geometry, the Aperture or mutual Inclination of two Lines, which meet, and form an Angle in their Point of Intersection. See LINE. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Geometry, Fig. 91.) formed by the Lines AB, and AC, meeting in the Point A—The...

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

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

    taken into the greater Hand. See HAND. The Arm, in this latter Acceptation, has only one large Bone, called the Humerus, or Shoulder-Bone. See HUMERUS. It has five sorts of Motions, which are effected by five Pair of Muscles; upwards, by the Deltoides,...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    ALCORAN, the Mahometan Gospel; or the Revelations, Prophecies, &c. of the Impostor Mahomet. See MAHOMETANISM. The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    displeasing, or painful Idea excited in the Mind on Occasion of some Object, which wants of that Uniformity, that constitutes Beauty. See BEAUTY.'Tis an Inquiry of some Delicacy, and Importance, whether there be any such Thing as absolute Deformity. Our...

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

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

    chiefly used in Physics, in respect of falling Bodies, i.e. of heavy Bodies tending towards the Centre of the Earth by the Force of Gravity. See GRAVITY, and CENTRE. That Natural Bodies are accelerated in their Descent is evident from various...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    Succinum, Carabe or Karabe, Gursium, Electrum, Carysturium, in Natural History, etc., a yellow transparent Substance, of a gummous or bituminous Form and Consistence, but a resinous Taste, and a smell like Oil of Turpentine; chiefly found in the Baltic...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    in natural History, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, etc. See WATER. The Word is pure Latin, and supposed to be compounded of a and qua, q.d. from which; alluding to the Opinion that Water is the Basis or Matter of all Bodies. Aqua fortis, is a corrosive...

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

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

    ADDITION, the act of joining one thing to another; or of augmenting a thing by the accession of others thereto. See AUGMENTATION and ACCESSION. In matters of Holy Scripture, it is forbidden to make any addition to the text, for fear of corrupting and...

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

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

    ACCESSORY, or Accessary, something that accedes, or is added to another more considerable thing, or arises as a natural Consequence therefrom. See ACCESSION. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary,...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

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

  • ANTECEDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECEDENT

    in the Schools, something that precedes, or goes before another, in respect of time; from the Latin Preposition ante, before, and cedens of cedere, to go. In this Sense the Word stands opposed to Subsequent. An Antecedent Decree, is a Decree preceding...

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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABATEMENT

    in Law, is us'd for the defeating or overthrowing of a thing, as a Writ, Appeal, or the like. Thus the Abatement of a Writ, is the frustrating, or setting it aside, by some Exception alledg'd and made good against it. Such Exception may be taken either...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    Admiratus, Admiralty, a great officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this important...

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

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

    in Astronomy, is the Distance of a Planet from the Aphelion or Apogee; or an irregularity in the Motion of a Planet, whereby it deviates from the Aphelion or Apogee. See PLANET, APHELION, and APOGEE. Kepler distinguishes three kinds of Anomalies; Mean,...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    Abstractum. See ABSTRACTION. An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more distinctly, as it is in itself, its own Nature, &c. See IDEA,...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    MUNDI, q.d. Soul of the World, or of the Universe, is a certain pure, ethereal Substance or Spirit, diffused, according to many of the ancient Philosophers, through the Mass of the World, informing, actuating, and uniting the diverse parts thereof into...

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    Philosophy, an Aristotelian Dogma, etc. The Philosopher from whom the Denomination arises, the Son of Nicomachus, born in the Year of the World 3670, at Stagira, a Town of Macedonia; whence he is also called the Stagirite. At 17 Years of Age he entered...

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

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

    that which builds a thing up regularly, according to the nature and intentions thereof. Thus, that plastic power, spirit, or whatever else it bewhich hatches the ova of females into living creaturesof the same species, is by some called the...

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    or Alum, Aluimen, a kind of Mineral Salt, of an acid Taste, leaving in the Mouth a Sense of Sweetness accompanied with a considerable Degree of Astringency. See SALT.The ancient Naturalists allow of two sorts of Allum; the one Native, the other...

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

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

    Ambling, in Horsemanship, a peculiar kind of Pace, wherein a Horse’s two 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...

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