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  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    proficient individuals in Alchemy, particularly those who claim to possess the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone and the Universal Medicine.See ALCHEMY, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, TRANSMUTATION, ELIXIR, etc.Ripley, Lully, Paracelsus, Helmont, Hollandus,...

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

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

    the Areas of Superficies, and the Contents of Solids, and their Proportions.—But the Method of Fluxions, which is a universal Arithmetic of Infinites, performs all this much easier; and Multitude of other Things which the former will not reach. See...

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

  • AZOTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZOTH

    among the ancient chemists, signified, sometimes, the first matter of metals; sometimes an universal medicine; and sometimes the mercury of a metal.—But the term is now disused. See METAL, MERCURY, etc. AZOTH

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    and females. See COGNATION. The difference, then, between Agnation and Cognation consists in this: that Cognation is the universal name under which the whole family, and even the Agnates themselves are contained; and Agnation a particular branch of...

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

  • ANASARCAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANASARCA

    in Medicine, a type of universal Dropsy, wherein the whole Substance of the Body is swollen or bloated with watery Humours. See DROPSY. The Anasarca is otherwise called Leucophlegmatia. See LEUCOPHLEGMATIA. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀνάσαρκος...

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

  • Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics

    PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or Constitution, in Element, Atom, Particle, Body. Chaos, World, Universe, Space, Vacuum, &c. Properties of Body, as...

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  • ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM

    ATOM, ἄτομος, in Philosophy, a Corpuscle; or a Part or Particle of Matter so minute as to be indivisible. See CORPUSCLE. The Word is Greek, ἄτομος; formed of the privative ἀ, and τέμνω, I cut, I divide. Atoms are properly the minima naturae, the last or...

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

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

    AETHER, is usually understood of a thin, subtle Matter, or Medium, much finer and rarer than Air; which commencing from the Limits of our Atmosphere, possesses the whole heavenly Space. See HEAVEN, WORLD, etc. The Word is Greek, αιθηρ, supposed to be...

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

  • ANTITACTAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTITACTAE

    ANTITACTAE, or Antitactici, in Antiquity, a kind of Gnostics, who owned that God, the Creator of the Universe, was good and just; but asserted withal, that one of his Creatures had created Evil, and had engaged us to follow it, in order to set us in...

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

  • ASCODROUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCODROUTES

    ASCODROUTES,in Antiquity, a Sect of Heretics, in the second Century, who rejected all Use of Sacraments, on this Principle, that incorporeal Things cannot be communicated by Things visible and corporeal. See SACRAMENT. They made perfect Redemption...

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