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

    or that a thing is. See AFFIRMATION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Negative. See NEGATIVE. There are universal affirmative propositions; and such, usually are the first of syllogisms. See UNIVERSAL, SYLLOGISM, etc. In Algebra we have also...

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    The best Piece on this Subject, is Henry Briggs's Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. To this Head may also be added, the universal Arithmetical Tables of Prosthaphaeresis, published in 1610, by Hulsius; whereby Multiplication is easily and accurately...

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

  • ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL

    ETHEREAL, ethereus, something that belongs to Ether, or is of the Nature of Ether. See ETHER.Thus, we say, the Ethereal Space; Ethereal Regions, &c.—Some of the Ancients divided the Universe, with respect to the Matter contained therein, into Elementary...

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

  • ANTECESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECESSOR

    ANTECESSOR, one that goes before, or leads another. See PRECURSOR, PREDECESSOR, etc. The Term is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law. ANTECESSOR

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

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

    Humour is supposed to be conveyed into the inside of the Membranes which enclose that Liquor.—But the Discovery is not universally allowed. See AQUEOUS HUMOUR. AQUEOUS

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

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

    in a given time, in double that time it will describe four times that length; in thrice the time, nine times, etc. and universally, if the times be in arithmetical proportion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., the spaces described will be 1, 4, 9, 16, etc. (iii) The...

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

  • ANNIHILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIHILATION

    ceasing to act, or to create a thing. For, if the Conservation of a thing be a continued Creation thereof; as is almost universally allowed: It's evident a thing can no longer endure, than while God continues to create. The Word is compounded of ad, to,...

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

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

    ATLANTIS, or ATLANTICA, in Antiquity an Island spoken of by Plato and other Writers, under some extraordinary Circumstances; and rendered famous by a Controversy among the Moderns about it. The most distinct Account of this celebrated Place, is given...

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

  • Politics - Policy - Justicehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics

    POLICY, or the Consideration of SOCIETY and COMMONWEAL; Its Origin, in Contract, &c. Constitutions and Forms thereof, as, 1°, Monarchy, Despotism, &c. Powers thereof, King, Queen, Prince, Duke. Emperor, Sultan, Sophy, Caliph, Cæsar, Czar, Inca,...

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  • Rees's Cyclopædiahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rees-s-cyclopaedia

    Rees (1802–1819) The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Vol 1 (A – Amarathides) Vol 2 (Amarantus – Arteriotomy) Vol 3 (Artery – Battersea) Vol 4 (Battery – Bookbinding) Vol 5...

    • Type: Article
    • Category: Book

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    Bourges : and others, both the one and the other. Among the Greeks, some even took the Quality of Oecumenical Abbots, or Universal Abbots, in Imitation of the Patriarch of Cmjhatttinople. See OECUMENICAL. Nor have the Latins been much behind 'em in that...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    at Chess successively. Tamerlane is recorded as a very expert Gamester at Chess. Chess is doubtless a most antient and universal Game: The common Opinion is, that it was invented by Palamedes at the Siege of Troy. Others attribute the Invention to...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    and Sylvius de la Boe, followed by the Tribe of vulgar Chemists, strenuously assert Sal Alkaly and Acid to be the only universal Principles of all Bodies; and by means hereof, account for the Qualities of Bodies, and the rest of the Phenomena of Nature;...

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

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

    etc. The Fit is usually preceded by a violent Pain in the Head, Dimness and Loss of Sight or Memory: Sometimes by a universal Indolence; and sometimes by a Flux of pituitous Matter by the Nose and Mouth. It is attended with a snoring and difficulty of...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    an Attrition from an impulse made in one or more particular Places; but can never be forced out of their Vessels by an universal Compression—It follows, that as none of the Parts undergo either Separation, Luxation, Contusion, or any other Change of...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    The attraction of gravity, called also among mathematicians, the centripetal force, is one of the greatest and most universal principles in all nature.—We see and feel it operate on bodies near the earth. See WEIGHT.—And find, by observation, that the...

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

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

    Line ; omitting the Consideration of its Breadth and Depth. Thirdly, it is by Abstraction that the Mind frames general or universal Ideas ; omitting the Modes and Relations of the particular Objects whence they are form'd. — Thus, when we would...

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

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

    d'Architecture, etc., and since also into High-Dutch, with notes. To these are to be added Vincenzo Scamozzi, his Idea of Universal Architecture, published in 1615, in Italian, and Charles Philippe Dieufart, in his Theatre of Civil Architecture,...

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

  • Metaphysicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/metaphysics

    Association, Abstraction, &c. Its Perceptions, as Substance, Accident, Mode, &c. Relations, as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    within its two lower Cavities, by means of which they are articulated together. Atlas is also a Title given to Books of universal Geography containing Maps of the known Parts of the World; as if they were viewed from the Top of that celebrated Mountain,...

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