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

    ALTITUDE, Altitudo, in Geometry, the third Dimension of a Body; called also Height, or Depth. See HEIGHT; see also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to...

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

  • ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500

    DE, and line 12. for a aBCdH, read abcdH. East Dial, line 11. for AC, read DC. Primary Dial, 1ine 20. for EE, read EF. Line of Distance, for Fig. 10, and 11. read Fig. 12, Division in Lines, insert Tab. Geometry, Fig. 17. Eccentric, for Fig. 11. read...

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

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

    AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one;...

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

  • ANOMALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ANOMALY

    ANOMALY, in Astronomy, is the Distance of a Planet from the Aphelion or Apogee; or an irregularity in the Motion of a Planet, whereby it deviates from the Aphelion or Apogee. See PLANET, APHELION, and APOGEE. Kepler distinguishes three kinds of...

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

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

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES

    APSIDES, Apsis, or Apsides, in Astronomy, two Points in the Orbit of a Planet, the highest whereof is called the Aphelion, or Apogee; and the lowest the Perihelion, or Perigee. See APHELION, APOGEE, PERIHELION, and PERIGEE. The Apsides are also called...

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

  • APOGEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APOGEE

    APOGEE, ἀπόγειος in Astronomy, that Point in the Orbit of the Sun, or a Planet, which is furthest distant from the Earth. See ORBIT and EARTH. The Apogee is a Point in the Heavens, at the Extreme of the Line of the Apsides; in which the Sun, or a...

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

  • ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE

    ASYMPTOTE, in Geometry, a Line which continually approaches nearer and nearer to another, yet will never meet there with, though indefinitely prolonged. See LINE. The Word is compounded of the privative Particle α, συν, with, and πζοω, I fall ; g.d....

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

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

  • ARGUMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ARGUMENT

    ARGUMENT, Argumentum, in Philosophy, as defined by Cicero, is some probable Matter alleged to gain Belief. See PROBABILITY, BELIEF, etc. Others, somewhat more scientifically, define Argument, a Medium, from whose Connection with two Extremes, the...

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

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    ASCENT OF FLUIDS,is particularly understood of their rising above their own Level between the Surfaces of nearly contiguous Bodies, or in slender capillary Glass Tubes, or in Vessels filled with Sand, Ashes, or the like porous Substance, See FLUID. This...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    ARCH, ARK, Arcus, a part of any curved line; e.g., of a circle, ellipse, or the like. See CURVE. An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference thereof, less than a half, or semicircle—Such is AB (Tab. Geometry, fig. 27) See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE....

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

  • ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE

    ADEQUATE, Adequate, something equal to, or coextensive with, another; and filling the whole measure and capacity thereof. See EQUALITY. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Inadequate.See INADEQUATE. Adequate Ideas or Notions are such images or...

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

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

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

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

    ANAMORPHOSIS, in Perspective and Painting, a monstrous Projection; or a Representation of some Image, either on a plane or curve Surface, deformed; which at a certain distance shall appear regular, and in proportion. See PROJECTION. The Word is Greek;...

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

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

    APPARENT PLACE of any Object, in Optics, is that wherein it appears, when seen through one or more Glasses. See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc. The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays...

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

  • AMPLITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLITUDE

    AMPLITUDE of the Range of a Projectile, is the horizontal Line subtending the Path in which it moved. See PROJECTILE. Amplitude, in Astronomy, an Arch of the Horizon, intercepted between the true East or West Point thereof, and the Centre of the Sun, or...

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