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

    solemn roar." And now for "baleful Ebon Shades, and ragged low-brow'd Rocks:" Next enter "horrid Shapes, and Shrieks and Sights unholy: Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire." Images of things most moving to Sense, readily alarm and raise a Commotion...

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

  • SIGHThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SIGHT

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    ACCEPTANCE, Acceptio, Acceptatio, in matters of Law, refers to agreeing or consenting to some act already done, which, without such consent, might have been undone or rendered invalid. The acceptance of a donation is necessary for its validity and is a...

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

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

    CG may lie over one Leg of the Angle, and the Center C over the Vertex——The first is obtained by looking through the Sights F and G, towards a Mark fixed at the End of the Leg; and the latter, by letting fall a Plummet from the Centre of the Instrument....

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

  • ASTROLABEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLABE

    is divided into Degrees and Minutes; fitted with a movable Index, or Label, which turns upon the Centre and carries two Sights.—At the Zenith is a Ring, to hang it by in time of Observation. To use the Astrolabe, turn it so to the Sun, as that the Rays...

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

  • ALHIDADEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALHIDADE

    taking of Heights or Distances—The Alhidade is a kind of Ruler, movable on the Centre of the Instrument; and carrying the Sights. See INDEX, SIGHTS, &c. See also ASTROLABE, THEODOLITE, etc. The Word is Arabic, where it signifies the same thing. —In...

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

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

    Distance thereof from the Object, DB; turn the Quadrat this and that way, till the Top of the Tower A, appear through the Sights.If, then, the Thread cut the right Shadows, say, As the Part of the right Shadow cut off, is to the side of the Quadrat; so...

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

  • ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL

    described in his Machina Celestis, began a course of observations. It is objected to him that he only used plain sights, and could never be brought to take the advantage of telescopic ones; which occasioned Dr. Hooke to write Animadversions on...

    • 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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    ARMS, Arma,all Kinds of Weapons, whether for Defense or Offence. See WEAPON, DEFENSE, etc. The Arms of Offense, are the Sword, Pistol, Musket, Bayonet, Pike, etc. See SWORD, GUN, etc. Arms of Defense. See under Armor. Fire-Arms. See FIRE-ARMS. The...

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

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

    ART, Ars, is defined by the Schoolmen, a habit of the mind operative or effective according to right reason; or, somewhat more intelligibly, a habit of the mind prescribing rules for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes...

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

  • 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

  • ARTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ARTERY

    ARTERY,Arteria, in Anatomy, a hollow fistulous Canal, appointed to receive the Blood from the Ventricles of the Heart, and distribute it to all Parts of the Body, for the Maintenance of Heat and Life, and the Conveyance of the necessary Nutriment. See...

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

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

    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...

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

  • ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION

    ASCENSION,Ascensio, a rising, or moving See ASCENT, ASCENDANT, ASCENDING, etc. Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of...

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

  • APPARENT PLACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/optics/APPARENT%20PLACE

    APPARENT PLACE of any Object, in Optics, is that wherein it appears, when seen through one or more Glasses. See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc. The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays...

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

  • ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY

    ALLEY, in Gardening, a straight parallel Walk, bordered or bounded on each hand with Trees, Shrubs, or the like. See GARDEN, WALK, ESPALIER, etc. Alleys are usually laid either with Grass or Gravel. See GRASS-WALK, and GRAVEL-WALK. An Alley is...

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

  • ALBUGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUGO

    ALBUGO, or Album Oculi, the same with albuginea, or white of the eye. See EYE, ALBUGINEA, &c. Albugo is also a disease of the eye; otherwise called leukoma, and popularly, pearl and web. See LEUKOMA, and PEARL. The albugo is a whitish speck or film,...

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

  • AUTOPSYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOPSY

    AUTOPSY, αὐτοψία, an ocular demonstration, or the seeing a thing oneself. See SIGHT, VISION, etc. The word is compounded of αὐτός, ipse, and ὄψις, visus. AUTOPSY

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

  • ANOREXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANOREXY

    ANOREXY, Anorexia, in Medicine, an Inappetency, or Loss of Appetite. See APPETITE. Anorexia is properly a longer continuance than is natural, without a desire to eat. See FOOD, FASTING, DISEASE, etc. If the Thought, or the Sight of proper Food, create a...

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