Cyclopædia
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CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS
CHESS, a fashionable Game, perform'd with little round Pieces of Wood, on a Board divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Game
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ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT
and a new one is put in his Place. The ancient Bishop of Frejus, now Cardinal de Fleury. Ancients in Church-Discipline. See EXPERTS. The Society of Gray's Inn consists of Benchers, Ancients, Barristers, and Students under the Bar; the Ancients are the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
ARK, or Arc, or Arch, Arēs, in Geometry, Astronomy, etc. See ARC. Ark, Arca, in the Scripture-Language, a kind of floating Vessel built by Noah, for the Preservation of the several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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DECADAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DECADAL%20ARITHMETIC
DECADAL ARITHMETIC, is that performed by a Series of ten Characters, so that the Progression is from 10 to 10—Such is the common Arithmetic among us, which makes Use of the ten Arabic Figures, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; after which we begin 10, 11,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified