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

    Jesuits de Trevoux, Daviler, Chauvel, Savary, Chauvin, Harris, Wolfius, and many more have done, has been subservient to my Purposes. To say nothing of a numerous Class of particular Dictionaries which contributed their Share; Lexicons on almost every...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    gives into the Opinion of the Fathers; noting, that the only Hands employed in it were Noah and his three Sons. To this Purpose he alleges the Instance of Archias of Corinth, who, with the Help of 300 Workmen, built Hiero’s Great Ship in one Year. Add,...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    proportions which the different kinds of buildings rendered necessary, that we might have some proper for every purpose, according to the bulk, strength, delicacy, richness, or simplicity required. Hence arose five orders or manners of building, all...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    Salt, says that Father, in a letter to the Count de Toulouse, is made in Egypt, in a sort of ovens contrived for the purpose, the tops whereof are perforated with several longitudinal clefts; and on these clefts are laid several long-necked glass...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    ALCORAN, the Mahometan Gospel; or the Revelations, Prophecies, &c. of the Impostor Mahomet. See MAHOMETANISM. The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    and Optically —The first is somewhat indirect and unartful; the second, performed by means of Instruments for the Purpose; and the third by Shadows. The Instruments chiefly used in measuring of Altitudes, are the Quadrant, Theodolite, Geometrical...

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

  • ANTIHECTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIHECTICS

    the nervous Cells; whence its use in Hectic Disorders, from which it derives the Name. See HECTIC. It is applied to good purpose in Heaviness of the Head, Giddiness, and Dimness of Sight, whence proceed Apoplexies and Epilepsies; And in all Affections...

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

  • AURICHALCUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICHALCUM

    The Aurichalcum is a Mixture of Copper and Calamine-stone melted together by a very vehement Fire, in Furnaces made on purpose. See COPPER and CALAMINARIS. AURICHALCUM

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    diametrically opposite to ours; but only disputes its being really inhabited. And the Considerations he suggests for that purpose are just enough: As, That they who asserted Antipodes, had no History for it; That the lower part of the Earth may be...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    etc. See also WITCHCRAFT, CONSENT OF PARTS, etc. Some think that the Term Antipathy can only be applied to any certain purpose when used with the Restriction of modern Philosophers; among whom it signifies no more than a Vis Centrifuga, or repelling...

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

  • ACOLYTHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACOLYTHES

    Acolythes is peculiarly applied to those young People, who, in the primitive Times, aspired to the Ministry; and for that Purpose, continually attended the Bishops: Which Assiduity occasioned their being called Acolythes. In the Romish Church, there are...

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

  • ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION

    See SACRIFICE. Sometimes they wash'd their Hands and Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made of Marble Triumphant (as Du Choul calls it) fill'd with Water....

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

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

    converted into Allegory; and the World left to seek for them both in a Heap of Fables, few of which have been solved to any purpose to this Day. See MYTHOLOGY. The Jews finding the Advantages of this way of explaining Religion; made use of it to...

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

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

    just Number of Words in the Latin; but the great Variety made thereof by the Inflection and Composition of Verbs—To this purpose he lays it down, that there are above one thousand Radical Verbs in the Latin; and that each Verb admits of five hundred...

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

  • APTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APTITUDE

    the natural Disposition anything hath to serve for such or such a purpose. Thus, Oil hath an aptitude to burn, and Water to extinguish Fire. APTITUDE

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

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

    these latter, being impelled by the matter of light, will enter the cavities of the former, which are framed as it were on purpose for their reception. And that they will do it the more readily, if the motion of the matter of light wherewith they are...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    and illustrate, but not to prove anything; yet is a great deal of our philosophizing no better founded. See SIMILARITY, PURPOSE, REASONING, etc. In Matters of Language, we say, New Words are formed by Analogia, i.e., new Names are given to new Things,...

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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    the Assize of woollen Cloth made through the Land, i.e., the Length, Width, and Quality thereof; and to the Seals for that purpose ordained.See ALNAGE, CLOTH, etc. There are now three Officers relating to the Alnage or Regulation of Cloth; all which...

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

  • ARBALEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBALET

    steel bow, set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger; and is bent with a piece of iron fitted for that purpose. It serves to throw bullets, large arrows, darts, etc. The ancients had large machines to throw arrows withal, called...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    the Cornea, which it causes to protuberate a little; and is supposed to be furnished by certain Ducts provided for the purpose. See CORNEA. Anatomists are divided about the Origin and Conveyance of this Humour. It's certain, the Source must be pretty...

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