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  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    a simple Body; i.e. to a Body which moves by its own Force. Therefore the Heaven is a simple Body, distinct from the four Elements, which move in right Lines. This Proposition he likewise proves by another Argument, thus—There are two kinds of Motions,...

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

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

    of an Art to the other, i. e. from the first or simplest Complication of Ideas appropriated to the Art, which we call the Elements or Principles thereof; to the most complex or general one, the Name or Term that denotes the whole Art. NOR is the Pursuit...

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

  • ELEMENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ELEMENTS

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

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

    the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they understood a different thing from what we do. See ELEMENT. It is certain, that Air, taken in the...

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

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

    downwards, say they, arises from an intrinsic principle, which makes them tend to the centre, as their proper sphere or element, where they would be at rest: hence, add they, the nearer bodies approach thereto, the more is their motion intended. See...

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

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

    of the several Rules. See NUMBER. Euclid furnishes a Theoretical Arithmetic, in the seventh, eighth, and ninth Books of his Elements.—Basilius Monachus has also given a Theory for demonstrating the common Operations, both in Integers and broken Numbers,...

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

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

    by a pedestal. See ORDER; see also COLUMN, ENTABLATURE, PEDESTAL, etc.; see also CARYATID, etc. For a general view of the elements of architecture, with the rules which obtain with respect to the matter,form, proportion, situation, foundation,...

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

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

    those in the Animal Oeconomy. In a word, Alkaly and Acid are substituted in the stead of Matter, and Motion. See PRINCIPLE, ELEMENT, etc. Mr. Boyle attacks this Hypothesis with great force of Argument. In effect, it's at best but precarious to affirm,...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    the Juices of our Bodies, yet retain its seminal Virtues; and if mixed with itself again, thereby be converted into pure elementary Water.—Whence they also imagined, it would at length reduce all Things into Water. See WATER. This Declaration, seconded...

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    of several bars, fillets, and colors; whence came the fess, bend, pale, chevron, and lozenge; which were some of the first elements of armories. See COAT, FESS, BEND, etc. Those who had never been concerned in any tournament had no arms, though they...

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

  • AUGURYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGURY

    all the different kinds of divination; which Varro distinguishes into four species of augury, according to the four elements.—Pyromancy, or augury by the fire, Aeromancy, or augury by the air; Hydromancy, or augury by the Water; and Geomancy, or Augury...

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

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

    Agrin. Gheraldus, in his Books of Mathematical Composition and Resolution published in 1630, applied Vieta’s Arithmetic to Elementary Geometry, and gave the Constructions of Simple and Quadratic Equations; so Des Cartes applied Harriot’s Method to the...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    Sound; as in the Hebrew ך and כ, and the ordinary Latin c and k, s and ph: or by reckoning double Letters among the simple Elements of Speech; as in the Hebrew צ, the Greek ξ and ψ, the Latin x, cz, sc, and the j Consonant, or Jod.—Deficient in divers...

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

  • ASCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT

    and the other Man, &c. therefore every Man is an Animal.—Or Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, are four; therefore the Number of Elements is four—See INDUCTION.

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

  • AEROMETRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEROMETRY

    of Mathematics at Halle, having reduced many of the properties of this fluid to geometrical demonstration, published Elements of Aerometry, at Leipzig, 1709, first in High Dutch and afterwards in Latin. Thus, the doctrine of the Air is incorporated into...

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

  • ACCIDENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENCE

    ACCIDENCE, Accidentia, a Name used for a little Book, containing the first Elements or Rudiments of the Latin Tongue. See GRAMMAR. ACCIDENCE

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

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

    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 Extension, Solidity, Figure,...

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  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    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 Extension, Solidity, Figure,...

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

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

    to solve some Phenomenon, real or imaginary; Authors take the Liberty to modify it how they please.—Some suppose it of an elementary Nature, like other Bodies, and only distinguished by its Tenuity, and the other Affections consequent thereon: which is...

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

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

    Space; Ethereal Regions, &c.—Some of the Ancients divided the Universe, with respect to the Matter contained therein, into Elementary and Ethereal. See UNIVERSE, and ELEMENTARY.——Under Ether, or the Ethereal World, was included all that Space above the...

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