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

    it changes the fortune of the principal person, it is said to be with a peripeteia; and the action is denominated complex or mixed: If there is no peripeteia, but the unraveling is a mere passing from trouble to repose, the action is simple. See...

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

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

    Substances which have that Effect. See ACID. Alkali, then, in its modern extensive Sense, is any Substance, which being mixed with an Acid, an Ebullition and Effervescence ensues thereon. See EFFERVESCENCE, etc. And hence arises the grand Division of...

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

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

    concerning it being chiefly conjectural. We have no way of examining it apart, or separating it from the other Matters it is mixed with; and consequently no way of ascertaining with Evidence what belongs to it abstractedly from the rest. Dr. Hook, and...

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

  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    the Total of a Mixture, with the whole Value, and the Values of the several ingredients, , to find the several Quantities mixed, though unequally. See the Total of the Mixture by the least Value, subtract the Product from the total Value; and the...

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

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

    various Kinds, and Denominations—With regard to the Form of their Legs, they are divided into Rectilinear, Curvilinear, and Mixed. Rectilinear, or right-lined ANGLE, is that whose Legs are both right Lines; as ABC (Tab. Geometry, fig. 91.) See...

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

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

    in the Denomination. The great and general Criterion, then, of Acids, is, that they make a violent Effervescence, when mixed with another sort of Bodies, called Alkalies. See EFFERVESCENCE. Yet, this Property alone is not universally to be depended on,...

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

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

    expressly declare, that there is a certain Fluid in Nature, capable of reducing all sublunary Bodies, as well homogeneous as mixed, into their Ens principii, or Original Matter whereof they are composed; or into an uniform equable and potable Liquor,...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    of little shining Veins or Threads, like Needles; brittle as Glass—Sometimes there are Veins of a red or golden Color intermixed, which is called Male Antimony; that without them being denominated Female. It fuses in the Fire, though with some...

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

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

    most moving to Sense, readily alarm and raise a Commotion in the Imagination. And the new Ideas thus procured, coming to be mixed, and combined in the Imagination, with others there before; new Effects arise from them, in consequence of the Laws of the...

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

  • Mix'd mathematicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics

    • Type: Category

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    is also a kind of bituminous Stone, found near the ancient Babylon, and lately in the Province of Neuchatel; which, mixed with other Matters, makes an excellent Cement, incorruptible by Air, and impenetrable by Water; supposed to be the Mortar so much...

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

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

    Extremities of the Polygon. See POLYGON—Such is the Angle CKF (Tab. Fortification fig.1.) Angle of the Circumference, is the mixed Angle made by the Arch drawn from one Gorge to the other. See GORGE. Angle of the Counterscarp, is that made by the two...

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

  • AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC

    growing in Barbary; and that the Plant that produces it, is called Agasyllis. The good Ammoniac is of a high Colour, and not mixed with any Scrapings of Wood, Stone, or Sand; it is called Fracture—The other, which is full of Stones or Sand, is called...

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

  • ALBUMEN Ovihttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUMEN%20Ovi

    white of an Egg. See EGG. It is used in Medicine, as being of a glutinous or binding Nature, on which Account it is often mixed with Bole Armeniac, &c. to prevent any strained Part from rising into a Tumor, and restore it to its Tone or Elasticity:—It...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    with his hand, to prevent any violent Hemorrhage.—In three or four Days the Dressing may be removed; and proper Digestives, mixed with Astringents, applied: having an actual Cautery, or some powerful Styptic, in readiness, in case of a violent...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    Boyle mentions "a Lady, who having a strange Antipathy to Honey; and her Physician conceiving it in great measure imaginary, mixed a little Honey in a Medicine applied to her Foot: But he soon repented his Curiosity; for it caused a strange Disorder in...

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

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

    Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods, Eclipses, etc. See...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    Calculus. See FLUXIONS, and CALCULUS.—See also INFINITE. Analysis is also used in Chemistry, for the decompounding of a mixed Body; or the Reduction thereof into its Principles. See PRINCIPLE, REDUCTION, DECOMPOSITION, BODY, etc. To analyze Bodies, or...

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

  • ASBESTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASBESTOS

    the Asbestos, wherein they burnt the Bodies of their Kings, in order to preserve their Ashes entire, and prevent their being mixed with those of Wood, and other combustible Matters, whereof the common Funeral Piles were formed. See FUNERAL, BURNING, &c....

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

  • AROMATIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AROMATIC

    wood, yellow sanders, cinnamon, cloves, mace, gum, tragacanth, nutmegs, cardamoms, galangals, spikenard, ambergris and musk mixed together.—It is chiefly prescribed in cordial and cephalic boluses and electuaries, to strengthen the stomach and head,...

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