Cyclopædia
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
formal Way of Analysis: The rather, as an Analysis, by shewing the Origin and Derivation of the several Parts, and the Relation in which they stand to their common Stock and to each other; will assist: in restoring 'em to their proper Places, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY
Affinitas, an Alliance, or Relation made between two Families, by Marriage. See ALLIANCE, and MARRIAGE. In this Sense, the Word stands contradistinguished to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law, there are...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Its Operations, Retention, Reflection, 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,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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RELATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATION
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RELATIVE Timehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Time
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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RELATIVE Placehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Place
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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RELATIVE Levityhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Levity
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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RELATIVE Gravityhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Gravity
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE
there arise divers sorts of Absolutes. Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing which does not include the Idea of Relation to another ; in which Sense it Hands oppos'd to Relative. Thus, Man is an absolute Term ; and, on the contrary, Creature and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
were cut down, becoming exceedingly sickly. This, a Physician who had been upon the Spot, and from whom Mr. Boyle had the Relation; attributed to the noxious Steams of a Volcano there; the ill Quality whereof, had been corrected by the aromatick...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ANNALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNALS
gives us another Opinion, which he says he borrows from Suetonius Asellio: According to that Writer, Annals are a bare Relation of what passes each Year; whereas History relates not only the Transactions themselves, but also the Causes, Motives, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
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 understand a thinking Being in general, we gather...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
in Civil Law, the bond of consanguinity or relation between the male descendants of the same father; as Cognation is the bond of relation between all the descendants of the same father, both males and females. See COGNATION. The difference, then,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
Duodecimal, Sexagesimal, Vulgar, Decimal, Finite, Infinite, etc. Theoretical Arithmetic, is the Science of the Properties, Relations, &c. of Numbers considered abstractedly; with the Reasons and Demonstrations of the several Rules. See NUMBER. Euclid...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
ARISTOTELIAN,something that relates to Aristotle—Thus we say the Aristotelian Philosophy, an Aristotelian Dogma, etc. The Philosopher from whom the Denomination arises, the Son of Nicomachus, born in the Year of the World 3670, at Stagira, a Town of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
of Things it was to contain, seems to many too scanty. And hence an Argument has been drawn against the Authority of the Relation. To solve this Difficulty, many both of the ancient Fathers and later Critics, have been put to miserable Shifts.—Origen,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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AGRARIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGRARIAN
the one publish’d by Caesar, and the other by Nerva, only relate to the Limits or Boundaries of Grounds; and have no Relation to that of Spurius Cassius. There are fifteen or twenty Agrarian Laws, whereof the principal are: The Lex Apuleia, made in the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT
as well as concrete Names 3 as, Whiteness, white ; Sweetness, sweet, &c. The like also holds in our Idea of Modes, and Relations ; as, Justice, just ; Equality, equal ; &c. But as to our Ideas of Substances, we have very few abstract Names at all— Those...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ACUTENESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ACUTENESS
a sound, etc. acute. See ACUTE. There is no such thing as Acuteness and Gravity, absolutely so called; they are only relations; so that the same sound may be either Acute or Grave, according to that other sound they refer or are compared to. See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Phonics - Music
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ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT
the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of the Martyrs, etc. The Acts of Pilate relating to Jesus is a false and supposititious relation of our Savior's trial before Pilate; impiously framed by the enemies of Christianity; and filled with the blackest blasphemy....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
