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  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    ASCENT OF FLUIDS,is particularly understood of their rising above their own Level between the Surfaces of nearly contiguous Bodies, or in slender capillary Glass Tubes, or in Vessels filled with Sand, Ashes, or the like porous Substance, See FLUID. This...

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

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

    or finds new in the attempt. The fifth puts an end to all by a discovery. Be this as it will, it is certain, on the principles of that great master of the drama, Aristotle, we may have a just and regular play, though only divided into three Acts. The...

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

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

    Class of Sulphurs, or Bitumens.Others, on the contrary, argue it of the Vegetable Kind, from its resolving into the same Principles with Vegetables;viz. Water, Spirit, Salt, and Oil.—Boerhaave resembles it to Camphire, which is a concreted Oil of the...

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

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

    Burning, Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise, all the other Principles being gone off in the Smoke. See Smoke, Fuel, Fixed, Salt, etc. The Chemistsfrequently call the Ashes of a Body its Calx....

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

  • ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC

    most general. This is the Analytic Method. The Synthetic consists in assuming the Causes discovered, and established as Principles; and by them explaining the Phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. See SYNTHESIS. ANALYTIC

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

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

    reckon'd a Sense; From its Affinity to the other Senses, in this, that the Pleasure does not arise from any Knowledge of Principles, Proportions, Causes, Uses, &c. but strikes at first View; as also in this, that the Ideas of Beauty, like other sensible...

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

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    to the Class of Bitumens; and is the furthest matured and concocted of the whole Tribe; but consists of the same simple Principles as the rest. See BITUMEN and SULPHUR. It is found swimming on the Surface of the Lacus Asphaltites, or Dead Sea, where...

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

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

    excepted. The Changes it induces proceed thus: 1°, The Subject exposed to its Operation, is converted into its three Principles, Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury; afterwards, into Salt alone; which then becomes volatile; and at length is wholly turned into...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS

    their Schemes and Figures. And hence the Abacus Pythagoricus, a Table of Numbers, contriv'dsor the ready learning of the Principles of Arithmetic ; denominated from its Inventor Pythagoras. Hence also, from an Agreement in point of Use, the Karnes...

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

  • Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics

    PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or Constitution, in Element, Atom, Particle, Body. Chaos, World, Universe, Space, Vacuum, &c. Properties of Body, as...

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

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    ASSENT, Assensus,an agreement or acquiescence of the mind, to something proposed, or affirmed.—Thus, to assent to any proposition, is to allow it true, or to perceive its truth. See TRUTH. The Schoolmen observe, that to every proposition, however...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    ABELIANS, ABELONIANS, ABELOITES, a Sect of Hereticks in Africa, not far from Hippo, cotemporary with S. Augustin. See HERETICS. What distinguish'd 'em, was, that they made it a Duty to marry, and yet liv'd with their Wives in a prosess'd Continence,...

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

  • ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS

    ARMINIANS, a religious Sect or Party, which arose in Holland, by a Separation from the Calvinists. See ARMINIANISM. The Arminians are sometimes also called Remonstrants;by reason of a Remonstrance which they presented to the States General in 1611,...

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

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

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

    • 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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    ARTIFICIAL,Artificalis, something made by Art; not produced naturally, or in the common Course of Things. See ART. © Art is usually considered as a Thing very different from Nature; and artificial Things, from natural ones: Whence arises another more...

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

  • ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS

    ANTIPHRASIS, a sort of figurative Speech which has a contrary meaning to what it carries in appearance. Or, a kind of Irony, wherein we say one thing and mean the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of...

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

  • APHORISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHORISM

    APHORISM, a Maxim, general Rule, or Principle of a Science; or a brief Sentence, comprehending a great deal of Matter in a few Words. See MAXIM, etc. The Term is chiefly used in Medicine and Law. Thus we say the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, of Sanctorius,...

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

  • ACTIVITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVITY

    ACTIVITY, the Power of Acting, or the Active Faculty.See FACULTY, etc. The activity of Fire exceeds all imagination. — The activity of an Acid, a Poison, etc. — Bodies, according to Sir Isaac Newton, derive their activity from the Principle of...

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