Cyclopædia
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
and of compounding, combining them, &c. to make them act jointly. The Effect hereof is what we call Discoursing and Philosophising: And hence arise Doctrines, Theories, &c. EVERY Word is supposed to stand for some Part, or Point of Knowledge; such as do...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY
ways: by Separation; by Maturation; and by Transmutation; which last is to be effected by means of what they call the Philosopher’s Stone. See GOLD.—See also TRANSMUTATION, PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, &c.With a View to this End, Alchymy, in some ancient...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
that relates to Aristotle—Thus we say the Aristotelian Philosophy, an Aristotelian Dogma, etc. The Philosopher from whom the Denomination arises, the Son of Nicomachus, born in the Year of the World 3670, at Stagira, a Town of Macedonia; whence he is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
are attracted by the Sun; Iron by the Magnet, Straws by Amber, and electrical Bodies, etc. See SUCTION. But the later Philosophers generally explode the Notion of Attraction; asserting, that a Body cannot act where it is not; and that all Motion is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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PHILOSOPHIZINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHILOSOPHIZING
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PHILOSOPHICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHILOSOPHICAL
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PHILOSOPHERS Stonehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHILOSOPHERS-Stone
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
moist, &c. See VAPOUR, and EXHALATION. We can go a little further yet —This elastic property of Air, is supposed by many philosophers, to depend on the figure of its corpuscles, which they suppose to be ramous: Some will have them as so many minute...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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PHILOSOPHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHILOSOPHER
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI
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 into one great, perfect,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER
αιθω, to burn, to flame; some of the Ancients, particularly Anaxagoras, supposing it of the Nature of Fire.See FIRE. The Philosophers cannot conceive that the largest Part of the Creation should be perfectly void; and therefore fill it with a Species of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES
was very different in those days, from what it is now—"For besides the Demonstrations of the Mathematicians, say they, the Philosophers too added their Conjectures; and asserted that the Sea made two great Circles around the Earth, which divided it into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
or Faculty of framing Abstract Ideas or Notions of Things ; and on such very Ideas do a great part of the Writings of Philosophers turn. These are supposed in all their Systems ; and without them there would be nothing done. — They are more especially...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
&c. Their Truth, Falhood, Evidence, Demonstration, &c. Operations therewith, as Argumentation, Induction, Discoursing, Philosophizing, &c. Disputation, Distinction, Contradiction, Reductio ad absurdum, &c. 18 CHYMISTRY, including the Use of FIRE, Water,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANEMOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOMETER
a Machine wherewith to measure the Strength of the Wind. See WIND. The Anemometer is variously contrived. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have one described, wherein the Wind being supposed to blow directly against a flat Side, of Board which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMALGAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAM
the Amalgam; which might afford a Method of making the nobler Metals, or procuring them from the Baser. See TRANSMUTATION, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, etc. This philosophical way of purifying Metals, may be applied to all the Metals, except Iron and Copper....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS
is a denomination given to proficient individuals in Alchemy, particularly those who claim to possess the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone and the Universal Medicine.See ALCHEMY, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, TRANSMUTATION, ELIXIR, etc.Ripley, Lully,...
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AUTUMNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMN
ver cathedratus;Aestuat Urbanus, autumnat Bartholomaeus."Autumn, in alchemy, the time or season when the operation of the philosopher’s stone is brought to maturity and perfection. See ALCHEMY and PHILOSOPHER’S STONE. AUTUMN
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY
Reasonings by Analogia may serve to explain and illustrate, but not to prove anything; yet is a great deal of our philosophizing no better founded. See SIMILARITY, PURPOSE, REASONING, etc. In Matters of Language, we say, New Words are formed by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY
repented his Curiosity; for it caused a strange Disorder in her, which ceased upon removing of the Medicine. Useful in Philosophy. --Dr. Mather relates that a Gentlewoman in New-England swoons upon seeing anyone cut their Nails with a Knife; but is not...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified