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  • ANAMORPHOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAMORPHOSIS

    ANAMORPHOSIS, in Perspective and Painting, a monstrous Projection; or a Representation of some Image, either on a plane or curve Surface, deformed; which at a certain distance shall appear regular, and in proportion. See PROJECTION. The Word is Greek;...

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    ANCIENT DEMESNE, or Demain, is a Tenure, whereby all Manors belonging to the Crown in William the Conqueror’s, and St. Edward's time, were held. See TENURE and DEMESNE. The Numbers, Names, etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called...

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

  • APOTOMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTOME

    APOTOME, in Mathematics, the remainder or difference of two incommensurable Quantities. See INCOMMENSURABLE. An Apotome is an irrational Residue, as CB, arising when from a rational Line AC, called ἄλφα (alpha), you cut off a rational part AB, called...

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

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

    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...

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

  • AMPHITHEATREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPHITHEATRE

    AMPHITHEATRE, a spacious Building, either round or oval, having its Area or Arena encompassed with Rows of Seats, rising gradually one over another; with Porticoes both within and outside. See ARENA and ARENA. Among the Ancients, the Amphitheatre was...

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

  • AMAUROSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/AMAUROSIS

    AMAUROSIS, in Medicine, a Deprivation of Sight; the Eyes remaining fair, and seemingly unaffected. See EYE, etc. Amaurosis is the same with what the Latins more usually call Gutta Serena. See GUTTA SERENA. The Word is Greek, αμαυρός, q. d. Darkness;...

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

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    are always either equal Arches or similar ones; and contrarily. It follows, therefore, that the Quantity of the Angle remains still the same, though the Legs be either produced or diminished. And thus similar Angles, and in similar Figures, the...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    put a Grain of a Solution of Silver in Aqua fortis, into a like Quantity of the Water in question: and if the Solution remains without either the Water’s turning milky, or the Silver precipitating, the Aqua fortis is pure. Aqua fortis is commonly held...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    extreme points hereof are also called poles. See POLE. The axis of the earth is a part of the axis of the world. It always remains parallel to itself, and at right angles with the equator. See PARALLELISM. Axis of a Planet, is a line drawn through the...

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

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    seem to evince the Existence of some Matter in the Air, much finer than the Air itself—There is an unknown something, which remains behind when the Air is taken away; as appears from certain Effects which we see produced in Vacuum.—Heat, Sir Isaac...

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

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

    are connected, in some manner or other, to the Body which furnishes them Food. Hence it follows, that a Foetus, while it remains in the Mother’s Womb, is a real Plant; as being connected by the Funiculus umbilicalis to the Placenta, and by the Placenta...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    Atlantis, according to him, was a large Island extended from the Canaries to the Azores; and these Islands are the Remains thereof not swallowed up by the Sea. The Atlantis took its Name from Atlas, Neptune’s eldest Son, who succeeded his Father in the...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    their jurisdiction became of greater extent. Mr. Spon, who examined the antiquities ofthat illustrious city, found some remains of the Areopagusstill existing, in the middle of the Temple of Theseus, which was heretofore in the middle of the city, but...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    to cover it; and secure them with the Cross-stitch made at the depth of half, or three quarters of an Inch in the Skin.—It remains, to apply over the whole Stump two large Pledgets, dipped in Digestives and dried, and afterwards charged with...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    with Water; and a deal of the Mercury pressed out through a linen Cloth: The rest being evaporated in a Crucible, the Gold remains behind in an impalpable Powder. See GOLD. Gold retains about thrice its own weight of Mercury. This Operation is denoted...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    See OBLIQUITY and ECLIPTIC. The Angle of Inclination of the Axis of the Earth, to the Axis of the Ecliptic, is 23°, 30' and remains inviolably the same in all points of the Earth’s annual Orbit. By means of this Inclination, such Inhabitants of the...

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

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    purges violently both upwards and downwards. See ANTIMONY. By collecting all the Lotions, and evaporating two-thirds, what remains is a very acid Liquor, called Spirit of Philosophical Vitriol. ALGAROT

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

  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    from the Greek ἀντί, pro, and πτῶσις, Case. ANTIQUARY, Antiquarius, a Person who studies and searches after Monuments and Remains of the Ancients; as, old Medals, old Books, old Statues, Sculptures, and Inscriptions, and, in general, all curious Pieces...

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

  • ACANTABOLUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACANTABOLUS

    shall chance to stick to the Oesophagus or Gullet; or the Fragments of corrupted Bones, Hair; or any thing that by chance remains in a Wound. The same Term, Acanthabolum, is also used for an Instrument wherewith People pull out the Hairs from their...

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

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

    three times the quantity of Nitre: the Detonation being over, the whole is washed with warm Water till no filthiness remains. It is a very penetrating Medicine, making way into the minutest Passages, and searching even the nervous Cells; whence its use...

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