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  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    find the Price or Value of some part of the Mixture. Multiply the Ingredients severally by their own Prices, and divide the Sum of those Products by the Sum of the Ingredients; the Quotient answers the Question. The Prices of the several Ingredients,...

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

  • ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION

    ones given, which is equal to the given numbers taken jointly or together. See NUMBER. This number, thus found, is called the sum or aggregate of the numbers given. See SUM. The character of addition is +, which we usually express by Plus. Thus 3 + 4...

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

  • INFORMATUS NON SUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/INFORMATUS-NON-SUM

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

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

    of the Staves, GE. To GF, GE and HF; find a fourth proportional BH.—To this add the Altitude of the shorter Staff, FC. The Sum is the Altitude required, AB. To measure an accessible Altitude, trigonometrically.— Suppose it required to find the Altitude...

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

  • ARITHMETIC OF INFINITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC%20OF%20INFINITES

    OF INFINITES, is the Method of summing up a Series of Numbers consisting of infinite Terms; or of finding the Ratios thereof. See INFINITE, SERIES, etc. This Method was first invented by Dr. Wallis; as appears from his Opera Mathematica, where he shows...

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

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

    bills of exchange. To accept a bill of exchange is to sign or subscribe to it and thereby become the principal debtor of the sum contained therein with an obligation to pay or discharge it at a time prescribed. See BILL OF EXCHANGE. The acceptance is...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    in one moment is not at all altered by what is made in another; but the two are, as it were, aggregated, or brought into one sum. Wherefore, since the particles of time are supposed infinitely small, and all equal to one another; the impetus acquired by...

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

  • ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE

    Declination 9°. 00'. Then, to the Arc co. of the Co-Tangent of 51°. 30' = 0.099395 Add the Tangent of 9°. 00' = 9.199712 Sum is the Sine of 11°. 29' = 9.299107 which is the ascensional Difference required; and being re- duced into Time, by allowing four...

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

  • AGGREGATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGGREGATE

    the sum, or result of several things aggregated or added together. See ACCRETION, and SUM.Natural bodies are Aggregates, or Assemblages of Particles or Corpuscles, bound together by the Principle of Attraction. See BODY, PARTICLE, &c.The word is formed...

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

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

    here come in sight, and such as will naturally suggest, and lead to the rest ; so that this will afford the Reader a sort of Summary of the Whole: And at the same time will dispense a kind of auxiliary or succedaneous Order thro'out the Whole ; the...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    premises of syllogisms, which they are not able to prove—Euclid himself lies liable to exception on this account, having assumed the equality of figures which mutually agree, or are congruous to each other, as an axiom. See CONGRUENCY. Axioms, in...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    in his Clavis Mathematica, printed in 1631, improved Vieta’s Method; and invented several compendious Characters, to show the Sums, Differences, Rectangles, Squares, Cubes, &c. Mr. Harriot, another Englishman, contemporary with Oughtred, left several...

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

  • ALLOCATIO Faciendahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLOCATIO%20Facienda

    to the Lord Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, upon the Complaint of some Accountant; commanding them to allow him such Sums as he has in execution of his Office lawfully expended. ALLOCATIO Facienda

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

  • ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500

    of its Base, read Diameters of its Bases. Contact, line 15. for cats read touches. Crepusculum, p. 344. l. penult, for Sum of, read Sun's, and p. 345. 1ine 2. and 3. for, P Z the Elevation of the Pole P R, read P Z the Complement of the Elevation, &c....

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    and behind the Lieutenant-Colonel. See REGIMENT, BATTALION, etc. Aid, Auxilium, in our ancient customs, a subsidy or sum of money due to the Lord, from his tenants, on certain occasions. See SUBSIDY, SERVICE, etc. It differed from a Tax, which is...

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

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

    late Mr. Hawksbee; the Proportion was settled as 1 to 885.Phys. Mechan. Exper. But these Experiments being all made in the Summer Months, when the Barometer was 29Inches high; Dr. Hooke thinks, that at a Medium between Heat and Cold, when the Barometer...

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

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

    by Euclid, Lib. 1. Prop. 32. Internal ANGLES, are the angles made by the Sides of any right-lined Figure within. The Sum of all the internal angles of any right-lined Figure, is equal to twice as many right angles as the Figure hath Sides, excepting...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    shadow; the eclipse will betotal without any duration: if less, total with some duration; and if greater, yet less than the sum of the semi-diameters of the moon and the shadow, partial—Arc of Vision is the sun’s depth below the horizon, at which a...

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

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

    his action for the same. See the Institutes, L. IV. Tit. 4, where the principal actions introduced by the Roman Law are summarily explained. In common law, from the two classes of real and personal actions, arises a third, called a mixed action, which...

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

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

    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 several Clauses, or...

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