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  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    either fixed, or at least have a urinous, instead of an acid Taste.See VOLATILE, FIXED, and URINOUS. Some late Chemical Philosophers have even made it very probable, that it is the Acid that is the Saline Part or Principle in all Salts. — They consider...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    and Experience, so as to make them answer the Designs and Uses of Mankind. See EXPERIMENT, &c. Nature, according to that Philosopher, is sometimes free, and at her own Disposal; and then she manifests herself in a regular Order: as we see in the...

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

  • ACHILLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLES

    ACHILLES, a Name which the Schools give to the principal Argument alleged by each School of Philosophers in their behalfs. See SECT.In this Sense, we say, this is his Achilles; that is, his Malleus-Proof: Alluding to the Strength and Importance of...

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

  • ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL

    &c. 'Twas a Point controverted among 'em, Whether or no the Ethereal Matter had the Property. of Gravity?——Many late Philosophers, not only at home but abroad, contend for its Gravity; and even for its being the Cause of Gravity in all other Bodies.—In...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    Dissolution, etc. See GENERATION, CORRUPTION, DISSOLUTION, etc. ‘Tis one of the great Discoveries of the modern Philosophers, that the several Motions attributed by the Ancients to a Fuga-vacui, are really owing to the Pressure of the Atmosphere. See...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    in October, and his coming out again in March ; and sound that of 4 Pounds 4 Ounces, he only used to lose about 1 Ounce. Philosoph. Transact. N° 194. Indeed, we have Instances of Men patting several Months as strictly abstinent as other Creatures.—---...

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

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

    a Menstruum. Mr. Boyle was so fond of it, that he frankly acknowledges he had rather have been Master thereof than of the Philosopher’s Stone. See ALCHEMY. Indeed, ’tis not difficult to conceive, that all Bodies might originally arise from some first...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    of the Lines for transforming of Geometrical Figures, call'd by the French the Robervallian Lines. Dr. Gregory, in the Philosophical Transactions, Anno 1694. rallies the Abbot Galloys, who held the Abbey of S. Martin de Cores, in Commendam, with being a...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    the Catenaria, though infinitely slender, must stand, in regard no one point thereof tends downward more than any other. Philosophical Transactions, No. 231. See further of the Theory under the Article Vault. Arches are sustained by imposters. See...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    MANURE. Hence that of Virgil, ——Ne pudeat, Effetos cinerem immundum jactare per agras. Pot-Ashes. See POT-ASHES. In the Philosophical Transactions, No. 21,we have an Account of a Shower of Ashes in the Archipelago, which held several Hours, and extended...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    Arsenic are also procurable from Cobalt: The method of which, as practiced in Hungary, is given us by Dr. Krieg, in the Philosophical Transactions, N° 293.—The Cobalt being beaten to powder, and the light sandy part washed off, by a current of water,...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    Digressions of the Planet from the Sun; till by two or three repeated Observations it be found to remain at a stand—in the Philosophical Transactions, No. 128. we have a Geometrical Method of finding the Aphelia of the Planets, by Dr. Halley. Kepler...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    In dissecting Persons dead hereof, clotted extravasated Blood is usually found in one or both Ventricles of the Brain. See Philosophical Transactions, No. 173, 313, etc. Hippocrates distinguishes two kinds of Apoplexies, one strong, the other weak; only...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    Sephat Alacham; containing divers sorts of imaginary alphabets, which the Author distributes into Prophetical, Mystical, Philosophical, Magical, Talismanical, etc.; Monsieur Leibnitz had it in view to compose an Alphabet of Human Thoughts. Mem. del...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    of a tree, whose roots always shoot toward the sea, and discharge themselves into the same. —This account we have in the Philosophical Transactions, from one of the Dutch Factors at Batavia: And the same is confirmed by Mr. Boyle. Of Tastes and Odors....

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

  • APPROXIMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/APPROXIMATION

    perhaps the cubic Root, are yet equally practicable, by due Adjustments, to the superior Powers also: as is shown in the Philosophical Transactions, No 215. If there be a Non-quadratic or Non-cubic Number; the former being expressed by aa + b, and the...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    with a vast Number of precarious Solutions of great Phenomena; and without them we must leave a great Chasm in the philosophical History of Animal Bodies. They are supposed to be separated in the Brain, from the subtlest Parts of the Blood; and thence...

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

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    ANTIMONY. By collecting all the Lotions, and evaporating two-thirds, what remains is a very acid Liquor, called Spirit of Philosophical Vitriol. ALGAROT

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

  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    the Greeks call it ἄληπτος, g.d. giving no trouble, as it does not need to be continually attended. It is also called the Philosophical Furnace, or Furnace of Arcana; and popularly, the Tower Furnace. The Word Athanor is borrowed from the Arabs, who...

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

  • ANIMALCULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALCULE

    discovers Legions of Animalcules in most Liquors, as Water, Wine, Brandy, Vinegar, Beer, Spittle, Urine, Dew, etc. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have Observations of the Animalcules in Rain-Water, in seven Chalybeate Waters, Infusions of Pepper,...

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