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  • IMPRESSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/IMPRESSION

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

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

    as in the Propagation of Sounds, Smells, and other Effluvia: For this argues it a Body whose Parts give way to any Force impressed, and in yielding, are easily moved among themselves;which is the Definition of a Fluid. See FLUID.—See also SOUND, &c....

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

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

    both a priori and posteriori. Thus, we actually find, that the greater Height a Body falls from, the greater Impression it makes, and the more vehemently does it strike the subject Plane, or other Obstacle. Cause of the Acceleration of Falling Bodies....

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

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

    the Fumes of Wine. ALL that is required to the first, is only a delicate, pregnant Imagination; susceptible of any subtle Impressions that may happen to be made in the Course of Things; and ready to take fire at the least Spark. The Surfaces of the...

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

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

    perceive therein, raising ourselves to the passions of grief, indignation, or the like: We are attacked the other way; the impression is to be carried backwards, by virtue of the natural connection there is between the reason and the passions: And thus...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    tenants, and customers, and set them down, and perfect them. See REVENUE and EXCHEQUER. AUDITORS OF THE PREST or IMPRESS, are officers in the Exchequer, who take and make up the great accounts of Ireland, Berwick, the Mint, customs, wardrobe,...

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

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

    Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and its Spirit;the Juices of Citrons, Oranges; Spirit of Nitre, Spirit of Alum,...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    readily, and thus prevents the Evaporation; but when the Fusion is prevented, the parts of the Salt receiving more violent Impressions from the Fire, are converted into a volatile Spirit. If to the Spirit of Nitre thus distilled, Sea-Salt or...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    Cartesians, to account for Transubstantiation, &c. without the hypothesis of Absolute Accidents. Some hold that the usual impressions are made on the senses by the immediate agency of God, and without anything remaining of the former nature. Others...

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

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

    Earth for the unchangeable Basis of all Things: That Fire was designed as the efficient Cause of all Things; that seminal Impressions were lodged in the Mechanism of Earth; and that Water, by dissolving and fermenting with this Earth, as it does by...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    are such as do not only signify doing or acting, but have also nouns following them, to be the subject of the action or impression. See VERB. Thus, to love, to teach, are Verbs Active; because we can say, to love a thing, to teach a man. Verbs Neuter...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    Womb? And why must those others be excluded which presided while the Body remained tender, and susceptible of the weakest Impression, during Gestations?But setting this aside; and supposing, withal, the Face of the Heavens accurately known: Whence...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    intent that their minds might be more present and attentive, and that no object, either of pity or aversion, might make any impression upon them. All pleadings before them, were to be in thesimplest and most naked terms; without exordium, epilogue,...

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

  • ANGARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANGARIA

    that which a Man is bound to perform in his own Person.—Prestationes Angariarum & Periangariarum plaustrorum & navium, impressing of Ships. See SERVICE, etc. ANGARIA

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

  • ASPERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ASPER

    Signior’s Revenues are paid. See Coin and Money. The Asper is worth something more than an English Halfpenny.—The only Impression it bears, is that of the Prince’s Head under whom it was struck—The Pay of the Janizaries, is from twelve to fifteen Aspers...

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

  • AUSCULTAREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AUSCULTARE

    in our ancient customs.—In regard the reading of prayers with a graceful tone or accent, makes some impression on the hearers; there was anciently a person appointed, in monasteries, to hear the monks read, who instructed them how to perform it, before...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    &c. ANGEL is also used in Commerce, for an ancient Gold Coin struck in England; so called from the Figure of an Angel impressed upon it. See COIN. Its Value in 1 Hen. VI. was 6s.8d. in 1 Hen. VII. 7s. 6d. in 34 Hen. VII. 8s. and in 6 Edw. VI. it was...

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

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

    the Body will resume its Figure, etc. See ELASTICITY. XI. But if the Texture of a Body be such that the Particles by an impressed Force being removed from their Contacts, come immediately into others of the same Degree, that Body cannot restore itself...

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