Cyclopædia
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
by' considering the several Matters not only absolutely and independently, as to what they are in themselves ; but also relatively, or as they respect each other. They are both treated as so many Wholes, and as so many Parts of some greater Whole ;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY
AFFINITY, Affinitas, an Alliance, or Relation made between two Families, by Marriage. See ALLIANCE, and MARRIAGE. In this Sense, the Word stands contradistinguished to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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RELATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATION
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RELATIVE Timehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Time
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RELATIVE Placehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Place
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RELATIVE Levityhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Levity
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RELATIVE Gravityhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RELATIVE-Gravity
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ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE
g. sometimes imports a Thing which does not include the Idea of Relation to another ; in which Sense it Hands oppos'd to Relative. Thus, Man is an absolute Term ; and, on the contrary, Creature and Father are Relatives, the one referring to Creator, the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ANNALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNALS
ANNALS, Annales, a historical Account of the Affairs of a State, digested in order of Years; see YEAR. The difference between Annals and History is variously assigned by various Authors—Some say that History is properly a Recital of Things which the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
AGNATION, in Civil Law, the bond of consanguinity or relation between the male descendants of the same father; as Cognation is the bond of relation between all the descendants of the same father, both males and females. See COGNATION. The difference,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
ARITHMETIC, Arithmetica, the Art of Numbering;or, that Part of Mathematics which considers the Powers and Properties of Numbers, and teaches how to compute or calculate truly, and with Expedition and Ease. See NUMBER, MATHEMATICS, COMPUTATION, etc. Some...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
ARISTOTELIAN,something 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...
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
ARK, or Arc, or Arch, Arēs, in Geometry, Astronomy, etc. See ARC. Ark, Arca, in the Scripture-Language, a kind of floating Vessel built by Noah, for the Preservation of the several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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AGRARIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGRARIAN
AGRARIAN, in Roman Jurisprudence, a Denomination given to such Laws as relate to the Partition or Distribution of Lands. See LAW. The Word is form’d of the Latin Ager, Field. The Agrarian Law, Lex Agraria, by way of Eminence, was a celebrated Law,...
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ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT, ABSTRACTUM, in Philosophy, that which Mind called Abstractum. See ABSTRACTION. An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACUTENESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ACUTENESS
ACUTENESS, in Music, etc., that which constitutes or denominates a sound, etc. acute. See ACUTE. There is no such thing as Acuteness and Gravity, absolutely so called; they are only relations; so that the same sound may be either Acute or Grave,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Phonics - Music
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ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT
ACT, Actus, in Physics, an effective exercise or application of some power or faculty. See ACTION. In this sense, the word Act stands opposed to Power, Potentia, which is the capacity of acting. See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics