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  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to the Horizon, and a Visual Ray emitted from an Object to the Eye.For the Laws of the Vision of Altitude, see...

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

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

    narrow, in comparison of ours, which is extended, by the Artifice of Language, over the whole Globe. They see with their own Eyes only; we with those of the whole Species.—In respect, by Language we are upon much the same footing, in respect of...

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

  • EYEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EYES

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

  • APPARENT PLACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/optics/APPARENT%20PLACE

    is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays which falls on the Pupil of the Eye, from each Point of any near Object, is made to flow as close together as that which comes from a distant one; or when, by...

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

  • ANAMORPHOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAMORPHOSIS

    Areola of the Square ABCD: by this means you will obtain a deformed Image, which yet will appear in just Proportion to an Eye distant from it the length FV, and raised above its height, VS. See DESIGNING. It will be easy to manage it so, that the...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    from all Bodies by Distillation. See DISTILLATION. Aqueous Humour, is the first or outermost of the three Humours of the Eye. See HUMOUR and EYE. It lies immediately under the Cornea, which it causes to protuberate a little; and is supposed to be...

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

  • ÆGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ÆGILOPS

    a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See EYE, TUMOR, and ULCER. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats are...

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

  • AGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGILOPS

    a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See Eye, Tumor, and Ulcer. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats are...

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

  • CRABS-EYEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRABS-EYES

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

  • ANTHRACOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHRACOSIS

    a Disease of the Eyes, occasioned by a corrosive Ulcer, covered with Skin, and attended with a general Swelling, especially of the Parts about the Eye. See EYE and ULCER. The Word is Greek ἄνθρακωσις, and denotes an Inflammation resembling a Coal;...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    ellipse and hyperbola two. See CURVE. AXIS IN OPTICKS—Optick Axis, or Visual Axis, is a ray passing through the centre of the eye; or it is that ray which proceeding out of the middle of the luminous cone, falls perpendicularly on the crystalline...

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

  • ABDUCTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDUCTOR

    of the exterior Os Sesamoideum pollicis : It serves to draw the great Toe from the rest. See TOE. ABDUCTOR Oculi, or of the Eye, is one of the four Recti, or strait Muscles, arising from the bottom of the Orbit, and spread over the first proper Tunic ;...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    that meansframe to it self Abstract Ideas, of a different Nature and Kind from the sensible ones. For an Example hereof, The Eye perceiving an Object extended, coloured, and moved, resolves this Compound Idea, into its simple, constituent ones ; and...

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

  • ADNATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADNATA

    in Anatomy, a pretty thick white membrane, investing the ball of the eye; called also Conjunctiva. See TUNIC, and CONJUNCTIVA. The Adnata makes what we commonly call the white of the eye; whence it is also called the Albuginea. See EYE, etc. ADNATA

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

  • ALBUGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUGO

    or Album Oculi, the same with albuginea, or white of the eye. See EYE, ALBUGINEA, &c. Albugo is also a disease of the eye; otherwise called leukoma, and popularly, pearl and web. See LEUKOMA, and PEARL. The albugo is a whitish speck or film, growing,...

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

  • ALBUGINEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALBUGINEA

    in Anatomy, the outermost coat or tegument of the eye; also called the tunica albuginea, conjunctiva, &c. See SCLERA, CONJUNCTIVA, &c. It takes the name albuginea, from its whiteness; being this that forms what we call the white of the eye. See EYE. The...

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

  • ADDUCTOR Oculihttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDUCTOR%20Oculi

    ADDUCTOR Oculi, a Muscle of the Eye; so called, because it inclines its Pupil toward the Nose. See EYE.It is also called Bibitorius; because it directs the Eye toward the Cup in drinking. See BIBITORY. ADDUCTOR Oculi

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    his years, by correspondent alterations in his body. See HORSE. We have characteristics from his teeth, hoofs, coat, tail and eyes. See TEETH, HOOF, etc.The first year he has his foal's teeth, which are only grinders and gatherers: The second, the four...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    thoughtsul, and leaning her Head on her Arm : And a Boy, with his Breeches down, was evacuating on the Edge of the Pit; his Eyes slx'd on the Ground :° All of them, in fine, in their natural Postures and Actions, with open Eyes, and Mouths that seem'd...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    in the act. It is true, where the husband made a trade of his wife's infamy, or where having seen her shame with his own eyes, he yet suffered patiently and dissembled the affront; in these cases, adultery became a crime of public concern: and the...

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