Cyclopædia

Here are a few examples of how you can use the search feature:

Entering this and that into the search form will return results containing both "this" and "that".

Entering this not that into the search form will return results containing "this" and not "that".

Entering this or that into the search form will return results containing either "this" or "that".

Entering "this and that" (with quotes) into the search form will return results containing the exact phrase "this and that".

Search results can also be filtered using a variety of criteria. Select one or more filters below to get started.

Assuming center is required, the following 8 results were found.

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

    of the arch. See CHORD and SINE. All angles are measured by arches—to know their quantity, an arch is described, having its center in the point of the angle. See ANGLE. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees; and an arch is estimated...

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

  • APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES

    Apogees. See APOGEE. The Diameter which joins these two Points is called the Line of the Apsides, and passes through the Center of the Orbit of the Planet, and the Center of the Earth,—which is the Line AP, (Tab. Astronomy, fig. 1.) drawn from the...

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

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

    were at rest. Here, then, being a double cause of motion, and both acting in the same direction, viz. directly towards the center of the earth; the motion they jointly produce must necessarily be greater than that of one of them. And the velocity thus...

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

  • ANGULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGULAR

    Motion, in Astronomy, is the Increase of the Distance between any two Planets, revolving around any Body as the common Center of their Motion. See PLANET, CENTER, etc. The Quantity of this Motion is expressed by two right Lines drawn from the said...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    understood of those formed by the several Lines used in Fortifying. See FORTIFICATION, FORTIFYING, &c. Angle of, or at the Center, is the Angle formed at the Center of the Polygon, by two Semi-diameters drawn thither from the two nearest Extremities of...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    things: Though most of them conceive it of the nature of fire. See FIRE. Some use Archaeus to denote the fire lodged in the center of the Earth; to which they ascribe the generation of metals and minerals, and which they believe to be the principle of...

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

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

    E.g., a Semi-circle, fig. 16. in such manner as that a Radius thereof 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...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    was the first, among the Europeans, who taught that the Earth and Planets turn round the Sun, which stands immovable in the Center; that the diurnal Motion of the Sun and fixed Stars, was not real but apparent, arising from the Earth’s Motion round its...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
Results 1 - 8 of 8

Main Menu