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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    call Amber; which is more or less pure, transparent, and firm, as those Parts of Salt and Bitumen are more or less pure, and mixed in this, or that Proportion.The Chemists are as much divided as the Naturalists, Amber being found by Distillation to...

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

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

    the remains of the Cobalt, they proceed to make Smalt. See SMALT. The smallest quantity of any of these Arsenics, being mixed with any metal; renders it friable, and absolutely destroys its malleability. Hence, the refiners dread nothing so much as...

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    • Type: Category

  • AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES

    AETITES, in Natural History, the Eagle-Stone. See EAGLE-STONE.The Aetites, or Lapis Aetites, is a kind of Stone, vulgarly said to be found in the Eagle’s Nest; but this, as well as many of the Virtues ascribed to it, seem to be fabulous.It is found...

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

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    ALABASTER, Alabastrites, in Natural History, a kind of Stone, softer than Marble, yet harder than Plaster of Paris. See STONE. It is found of all Colors; some extremely white and shining, which is the most common; some red, like Coral;and other called...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    ANIMA MUNDI, q.d. Soul of the World, or of the Universe, is a certain pure, ethereal Substance or Spirit, diffused, according to many of the ancient Philosophers, through the Mass of the World, informing, actuating, and uniting the diverse parts thereof...

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

  • AURUM MOSAICUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20MOSAICUM

    AURUM MOSAICUM. See MOSAIC GOLD. Aurum mosaicum is also a preparation in pharmacy, thus called from its golden colour and appearance. It is made of mercury, tin, sal ammoniac, and flowers of sulphur, by grinding, mixing, then setting them three hours in...

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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