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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    the other, i. e. from the first or simplest Complication of Ideas appropriated to the Art, which we call the Elements or Principles thereof; to the most complex or general one, the Name or Term that denotes the whole Art. NOR is the Pursuit dropt here:...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    And hence arise divers kinds of attractions; as, gravity, magnetism, electricity, etc. which are so many different principles, acting by different laws; and only agreeing in this, that we do not see any physical causes thereof; but that, as to our...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World, Sir Isaac Newton shows, must be always decreasing, in virtue of the Vis...

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

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

    at the Tropic: where, with the Force of a chymical Agent, he resolves the superficial Parts of the Earth into their Principles, Water, Oil, Salt, &c. which are all swept into the Atmosphere.And hence we conceive the Nature of Meteors, which are either...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    de la Boe, followed by the Tribe of vulgar Chemists, strenuously assert Sal Alkaly and Acid to be the only universal Principles of all Bodies; and by means hereof, account for the Qualities of Bodies, and the rest of the Phenomena of Nature;...

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

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

    ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    in Logick, a Method of applying the Rules of Reasoning, to resolve a Discourse into its Principles; in order to a Discovery of its Truth, or Falsehood. See PRINCIPLE. Or, Analysis is an Examination of some Discourse, Proposition, or other Matter, by...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    ARCHAEUS, an obscure term, used chiefly among the ancient chemists, to express I know not what principle of life and motion; the cause of all the effects which men observe in nature. See LIFE. Hence, as they differ in their ideas of a vital cause, the...

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

  • PRINCIPLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PRINCIPLE

    • 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

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

    fictitious Machines were thrown out; and the Constitution of the Heavens reduced to more simple, natural, and certain Principles. See COPERNICAN. See also System, SUN, EARTH; The modern Astronomy is deliver'd in Copernicus’s six Books of Celestial...

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

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

    of the Cartesians, Newtonians, and other Corpuscularians. See SCHOOL, NEWTONIAN, CARTESIAN, CORPUSCULARIAN, etc. THE PRINCIPLES OF ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY, the Learned agree, are chiefly laid down in his four books de Caelo; his 8 Books of Physics,...

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

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

    the Distillation of Turpentine, is called the Ethereal Oil of Turpentine. See TURPENTINE. Some Chemists distinguish two Principles in Urine; the one a volatile urinous Salt, resembling Spirit of Nitre; the other an Ethereal Oil, or Sulphur; partaking of...

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

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

    See Rule, Precept, Experiment, etc. In this Sense, art is opposed to Science, which is a Collection of speculative Principles and Conclusions. See Science. The Nature and Origin of Art, and its Distinction from Science, will be further considered in the...

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

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

    part, as the Base or broadest part is the foulest. Antimony is supposed by many of the Chemists to contain the seminal Principles of all kinds of Bodies; and accordingly, the Character whereby it is denoted in their Writings is the same with the...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    the Table, and keep themselves from being swallowed up by the dry Wood: but this we can account for on more intelligible Principles, viz. the Power of Attraction, and Repulsion. See ATTRACTION and REPULSION. As to the Antiperistasis of Cold and Heat,...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    AXIOM, ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

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

    ANIMAL, a Being, which, besides the Power of growing, increasing, and producing its like, which Vegetables likewise have, is further endowed with Sensation, and spontaneous Motion. See BEING, SENSATION, and MOTION. The Word Animal is derived from the...

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

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

    ANIMA 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...

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