Cyclopædia
Assuming protracting is required, the following 3 results were found.
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AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA
Paper, and thus cast up their Contents in Acres, Roods, &c. after the usual manner of other plain Figures. See SURVEYING, PROTRACTING, &c. The Law by which the Planets move round the Sun, is this: that a Line or Radius drawn from the Centre of the Sun...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
See FOOD, and DIET. The Physicians relate Wonders of the Effects of Abstinence in the Cure of many Disorders, and the protracting the Term of Life.---— The Noble Venetian, Cornaro, after all imaginable means had proved vain, so that his Life was...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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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