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

    found in the several Branches of Knowledge both natural and artificial; that is, of Nature, first, as she appears to our Senses ; either spontaneously, as in Natural History; or with the Assistance of Art, as in Anatomy, Chymistry, Medicine,...

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

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

    Deformity. Our Perception of the Idea's of Beauty, and Harmony is justly 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...

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

  • ANAGOGICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGICAL

    eternal and divine; the Matters of the next Life. See ANAGOGY. This Term is principally used with regard to the different Senses of the Scripture. The literal Sense is the first, and the natural Sense. The mystical Sense is founded on the natural Sense,...

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

  • ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE

    is understood of something that is free, or independent of another. Hence, as there are various ways wherein one thing may be consider'd is free in respect of another, there arise divers sorts of Absolutes. Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing...

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

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

    Arts which relate to the Sight and Hearing, My Lord Bacon observes, are reputed liberal beyond those which regard the other Senses, which are chiefly employed in Matters of Luxury. See SENSE. It has been well noted by some Philosophers, that during the...

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

  • 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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    ACCENT, Accentus, a certain inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...

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

  • SENSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SENSE

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

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

    is kept in a continual Reprocation. See FIRE. Hence, in good measure, it is, that on the Tops of the higher Mountains; the Senses of Smelling, Hearing, &c. are found very feeble. See MOUNTAIN. II°, Weight, or Gravity.—That the Air is heavy, follows from...

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

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

    of expressing our ideas and is susceptible of a kind of eloquence as well as the primary. It is an address to our external senses which it endeavors to move and bring into its party by a well-concerted motion and modulation, at the same time that reason...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    Transubstantiation, &c. without the hypothesis of Absolute Accidents. Some hold that the usual impressions are made on the senses by the immediate agency of God, and without anything remaining of the former nature. Others ascribe the whole to...

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

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

    of Christianity. See ALLEGORICAL, ALLEGORICAL, something containing an Allegory. See ALLEGORY. The Divines find divers Senses in Scripture; a Literal, a Mystical, and an Allegorical Sense. See MYSTIC, &c. The Prophecies, in particular, delivered in the...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    ARTICLE,Articulus, a little Part or Division of a Book, Writing, or the like—Aquinas divides his Sum of Theology, into several Questions; and each Question into divers Articles—Such an Account consists of so many Articles. Article is also used for the...

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

  • APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL

    APOCRYPHAL, something set aside that comes from an uncertain Author, whereon much credit cannot be reposed. Thus we say, an Apocryphal Book, Passage, History, etc., meaning, such as are of suspected Authority—In Matters of Doctrine, the Writings of...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    in Medicine, a sudden Privation of all the Senses, and all the sensible Motions of the Body, excepting that of the Heart and Lungs; attended with a great Depravation of the principal Faculties of the Soul. See SENSATION, MOTION, etc. It differs from a...

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

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

    ANALOGY, a certain Relation, Proportion, or Agreement, which several Things, in other respects different, bear to each other.—Such is that between the Bull in the Heavens, and the Animal so called on Earth. The Word is Greek, Ἀναλογία (Analogia); which...

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

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

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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

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

    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...

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