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  • ATOMICAL PHILOSOPHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATOMICAL%20PHILOSOPHY

    PHILOSOPHY, the doctrine of atoms; or a method of accounting for the origin and formation of all things, from the supposition of atoms, endowed with gravity and motion. See ATOM, WORLD, etc. The atomical philosophy was first broached and taught by...

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

  • ARGYROPÆAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGYROPÆA

    and SILVER. The Scope or Design of Argyropæa and Chrysopæia, is to make Gold and Silver. See CHRYSOPÆIA, TRANSMUTATION, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, etc. The Word is formed of ἄργυρος, Silver, and ποιέω, I make. ARGYROPÆA

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

  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    Books of the Deeds and Sayings of Socrates, as well as the Dialogues of Plato, are Socratiana: That the Apothegms of the Philosophers, collected by Diogenes Laertius; the Sentences of Pythagoras, and those of Epictetus; the Works of Athenaeus, Stobaeus,...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    Israfil, stands with the Trumpet ready in his Mouth to proclaim the Day of Judgment. See QURAN, ISLAM, etc. The Heathen Philosophers and Poets, were also agreed as to the Existence of intelligent Beings, superior to Man; as is shown by St. Cyprian, in...

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

  • ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL

    and dissolving oily or sulphurous Substances, they assume a red Colour. See CIRCULATION, BLOOD, and SANGUIFICATION. The Philosophers comprehend Man under the Species of Animals and define him as a reasonable animal: though among Naturalists, etc.,...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    various other Denominations; as Proteus, by reason of its various forms and appearances, Lupus, Devorator, Saturn of the Philosophers, Balneum Solis, Lavacrum Leprosorum, etc., all chiefly respecting its Faculty of destroying, and dissipating whatever...

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

  • APPETITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/APPETITE

    Appetitus, Appetency, in Philosophy, a Desire of enjoying something wanted; or a Complacency in the Enjoyment of a thing present. Some Philosophers define it more generally, a Passion of the Soul whereby we desire something; or a Propensity or Impulse...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    in the Progress of the Stream; and becomes insensible before arriving at the Journey's End. See FIRE.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of circular...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    ACCIDENT, Accidens, in Philosophy, something additional, or superadded, to Substance; or not essentially belonging thereto, but capable, indifferently, either of being or not being in it, without the Destruction thereof. See SUBSTANCE. Some will have...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    even be said, that the Use hereof is of a much earlier standing in the Gentile, than in the Jewish World. Some of their Philosophers, undertaking to give a Rationale of their Faith, and to show the Reason and Scope of their Fables, and the ancient...

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

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

    ABSTRACTUM, in Philosophy, that which Mind called 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...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    in the Progress of the Stream; and becomes insensible before arriving at the Journey's End. See Fire.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of circular...

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

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

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

    subject Plane, or other Obstacle. Cause of the Acceleration of Falling Bodies. Various are the Systems and Opinions which Philosophers have produced to account for this Acceleration. Some attribute it to the Pressure of the Air: The farther, say they, a...

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

  • APPARENT MAGNITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARENT%20MAGNITUDE

    of the Sun and Moon when in the Horizon, from what they are in the Meridian; the reason whereof has long perplexed the Philosophers. See MOON. APPARENT MAGNITUDE

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

  • ADAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAGE

    See PROVERB, etc. Erasmus has made a large and valuable collection of Greek and Roman adages from their poets, orators, philosophers, etc. Adage, Proverb, and Paroemia are the same thing but differ from Gnomes, Sentences, and Apothegms. See GNOME,...

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

  • APOREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APORE

    in Bodies, which make room for the Transpiration of Humours. See PORE. When a Question was proposed to any of the Greek Philosophers, especially of the Sect of Academics; if he could not give a Solution, his Answer was ἀπορῶ, q.d., I do not conceive it,...

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

  • APATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APATHY

    the devouter Writers: Clemens Alexandrinus, in particular, brought it exceedingly in vogue; thinking hereby to draw the Philosophers to Christianity, who aspired after such a sublime pitch of Virtue. Quietism is only Apathy disguised under the...

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

  • AD OCTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20OCTO

    OCTO, i.e. to the eighth number; a term used by some ancient philosophers to denote the highest or superlative degree; because in their way of distinguishing qualities, they reckoned no degree above the eighth. See DEGREE, HUMOR, QUALITY, etc. AD OCTO

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

  • AGITATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGITATION

    the term is sometimes appropriated to that species of earthquake, called Tremor, Arietatio. See EARTHQUAKE.Among philosophers, it is chiefly used for an intestine commotion of the parts of any natural body. See INTESTINE.Thus, fire is said to agitate...

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