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

    from each other; having scarce anything in common, but their being effervescent with Acids. The one is a Class of native, fixed, scentless, insipid, mild, astringent, fossil Bodies: The other a Set of such as are volatile, odorous, sapid, caustic,...

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

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    called Acid Salts. See SALT. Add, that the Acid Salts are all found to be volatile; by which they are distinguished from the fixed, which are either fixed, or at least have a urinous, instead of an acid Taste.See VOLATILE, FIXED, and URINOUS. Some late...

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

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

    of permanently elastic Air.' Ubi supra. Of the same opinion is Sir Isaac Newton; 'The particles of dense, compact, and fixed substances, cohering by a strong attractive force, are not separable without a vehement Heat, or perhaps not without...

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

  • FIXING Sulphurhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FIXING-Sulphur

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

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

    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 own Axis, etc. See PYTHAGOREAN. Yet Vitruvius...

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

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

    of our Senses, with that other Set of Things analogous hereto, the proper Objects of the Imagination, are represented by fixed Names; denoting, some of them, Individuals; others Kinds, &c. Now these, which make the first or fundamental Part of a...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    their il, lo, and la.—The French their le, la, and les.—The English also have two Articles, A and The; which being prefixed to Substantives, apply their general Signification to some particular Thing.—Thus we say, A Man; that is, some Man or other: The...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    remaining after they are burned or consumed with Fire. See Earth, Burning, Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise, all the other Principles being gone off in the Smoke. See Smoke, Fuel, Fixed,...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    Salts being volatile and flying off with heat: the contrary of which is found in Vegetables, which constantly retain some fixed Salt in all their Ashes. See SALT, VOLATILE, and FIXED. The second, that no sincere Acid is contained in any Animal Juice;...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    and Mars, being acted upon by Jupiter and Saturn, their Aphelions move a small matter in Consequents with respect to the fixed Stars, and this in the sesquiplicate Ratio of the Distance of those Planets from the Sun. Hence, if the Aphelion of Mars move...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    AMBER, Succinum, Carabe or Karabe, Gursium, Electrum, Carysturium, in Natural History, etc., a yellow transparent Substance, of a gummous or bituminous Form and Consistence, but a resinous Taste, and a smell like Oil of Turpentine; chiefly found in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

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

    ARMS, Arma,all Kinds of Weapons, whether for Defense or Offence. See WEAPON, DEFENSE, etc. The Arms of Offense, are the Sword, Pistol, Musket, Bayonet, Pike, etc. See SWORD, GUN, etc. Arms of Defense. See under Armor. Fire-Arms. See FIRE-ARMS. The...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    rate he pleased; but by a Stat.3d Edw. I, a restraint was laid on common persons being Lords, and they were tied down to a fixed proportion.By a subsequent statute, the same rate was extended even to the King. They seem to have been first established...

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

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

    the Angle; and the Point of Intersection, the Vertex. See LEG and VERTEX. Angles are sometimes denoted by a single Letter affixed to the Vertex, or angular Point, as A; and sometimes by three Letters, that of the Vertex being in the middle, as BAC. The...

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

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

    The axis in peritrochio takes place in the motion of every machine, where a circle may be conceived described about a fixed axis, concentric to the plane of a cylinder about which it is placed; as in crane-wheels, mill-wheels, capstans, etc. See WHEEL....

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    as that of the tragic action; the latter is confined to a natural day; but the epic, according to that critic, has no fixed time—In effect, tragedy being full of passions, and consequently of violence, which cannot be supposed to last long, requires a...

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

  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    these Immunities to Church-yards, the Bishops and Monks laid hold of a certain Tract or Territory, without which they fixed the Bounds of the Secular Jurisdiction: And so well did they manage their Privileges, that Convents, in a little time, became...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    and cow’s milk taken in large quantities, prove good antidotes against Arsenic. Regulus of Arsenic, is the most fixed and compact part thereof, prepared, by mixing it with pot-ashes and soap, dissolving the whole, and casting it into a mortar; upon...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO

    last, and 4800 in case of Peace. Secondly, The Duty to be paid the King of Spain, during the Farm, or Asiento; which was fixed at 33 Pieces of Eight per Head.—By the Treaty of Utrecht, Philip V. being acknowledged King of Spain by the Allies; it was one...

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