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  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Bezoard, Castoreum, Civet, Meconium, Mummy, Usnea, &c. Kermes, Cochineal, &c. Motion, as Flying, Swimming, and the like. 6 PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    ACT, Actus, in Physics, an effective exercise or application of some power or faculty. See ACTION. In this sense, the word Act stands opposed to Power, Potentia, which is the capacity of acting. See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

  • 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

    of Holy Scripture, it is forbidden to make any addition to the text, for fear of corrupting and altering the sense. In Physics, we say that natural bodies are formed by the addition or aggregation of parts. See AGGREGATION, ACCRETION, etc. Addition is...

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

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are distinguished...

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

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

    directly opposed to Retardation, which denotes a Diminution of Velocity. See RETARDATION. Acceleration is 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...

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

  • ADHESIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ADHESION

    Adherence, in Physics, is the state of two bodies that are joined or fastened to each other, either by the mutual interposition of their own parts, or the compression of external bodies. See COHESION, and NEXUS. The word is compounded of the Latin "ad"...

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

  • APPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSITION

    the Act of putting or applying one thing to another. See APPLICATION. Apposition is used in Physics, with respect to Bodies, which derive their Growth from the Adjunction or Union of neighboring Bodies. See ADJUNCTION. Most Bodies of the fossil or...

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

  • APOTHECARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTHECARY

    a Person who practices Pharmacy, or that part of Physics which consists in the Preparation and Composition of Medicines. See PHARMACY and MEDICINE. Nicholas Langius has written a large Volume expressly against the Apothecaries, their errors in pro quos...

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

  • ALTERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALTERATION

    Alteratio, in Physics, the Act of changing the Circumstances and Manner of a thing; its general Nature and Appearance remaining the same.—Or, Alteration is an accidental, and partial Change in a Body; without proceeding so far, as to make the Subject...

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

  • AGGREGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGGREGATION

    Accretion, in Physics, a species of union, whereby several things which have no natural dependence or connection with one another, are collected together, so as in some sense to constitute one. See UNION. Thus, a heap of sand, or a mass of ruins, are...

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

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    ASSIMILATIO,in Physics, is properly a Motion whereby Bodies convert other duly disposed Bodies, into a Nature like, or homogeneous to their own. See MOTION, BODY, etc. Some Philosophers call it, the Motion of Multiplication, meaning, that Bodies are...

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

  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    ANATOMY, the Art of dissecting, or artificially taking to pieces, the solid Parts of Animal Bodies; in order to an exact Discovery of their Structure and Economy. See ANIMAL, BODY, DISSECTION, and ECONOMY. Anatomy makes a great Branch of that Division...

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

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

    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...

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

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

    AMBER-GREASE, Ambergrease, Amber-Grise, Ambarum, a fragrant drug, that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and...

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

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

    ANIMAL SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for...

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

  • ACORUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACORUS

    ACORUS, a Medicinal Plant, of the Rush or Flag Kind;frequently confounded by the Ancients, and also by the modern Apothecaries, with the Calamus Odoratus. See CALAMUS.There are two Species of Acorus; the Verus, or true, and the false—They are...

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

  • AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC

    AGARIC, or Fauagus Agaricus, in pharmacy, a kind of fungous excrescence growing on the trunks, and large branches of several trees; but chiefly on the larch-tree, and certain oaks. See FUNGUS. Dioscorides derives its name from a province of Sarmatia,...

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