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

    though the thousandth part of the fire in open air will presently turn it into ashes.—Helmont adds, that the Charcoal remains all that while without any alteration of its black colour; but if the minute air is let in, it falls instantly into white...

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

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

    thereof commence either Art or Science according to the Agency or Non-agency of the human Mind in respect thereof : It remains to take the Matter up a little higher ; and explain the Reason and Manner of this Operation, To consider Knowledge in its...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    otherwise, it would be no more than a simple substitution of one thing for another. As then nothing of the substance remains, it must be Accidents. Hence, the Council of Constance condemns the following proportion, which is the second of Wiclif's, as...

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

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

    Quantity of Nitre; and the Mixture thrown at several times into an ignited Crucible: upon which, a Detonation ensues. What remains being kept in Fusion a quarter of an Hour, turns into a white Mass called Antimonium Diaphoreticum Nitratum, or...

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

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

    is the Complement to the Whole. And when more Ingredients than two are in the Composition, the Divisors are the several Remains of the least Value, taken from the other. The Dividends are the Remains left upon the Divisions, till none remain there;...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    whereof Copperas may be made; but being calcined it is fit for Allum.—As long as it continues in the Earth, or in Water, it remains a hard Stone.—Sometimes a Liquor will issue out of the Side of the Mine, which by the Heat of the Sun is turned into a...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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

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

    sustains no Reaction from them; being the only immutable Menstruum in Nature. 5°, "Tis incapable of Mixture, and therefore remains free from Fermentation and Putrefaction; coming off as pure from the Body it has dissolved, as when first put thereon;...

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

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

    in animals, and vice versa. The same author accounts for this double metamorphosis by supposing that the nitrous principle remains the same in both cases, and in both cases is attached to the same matrix, with this only difference, that the matrix...

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

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    is wetted with spirit of wine, and the spirit burnt away; and this for several times till the pungent taste is gone: what remains is used much with the same intentions as the antihysticum Poterii, and is recommended by some as a sudorific. See...

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

  • ARREARShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREARS

    or Arrearages,the Remains of an Account; or a Sum of Money remaining in the Hands of an Accountant. See ACCOUNT and ACCOUNTANT. The Word is also used more generally for a Remainder of Rents, or Monies unpaid at the due Time; whether they be Rents of a...

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

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

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

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

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

    N° 293.—The Cobalt being beaten to powder, and the light sandy part washed off, by a current of water, they put what remains in a furnace; the flame of which passing over the powder, takes along with it the Arsenical part, in form of a smoke; which...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    ANCIENT, etc. Thus we say, the Heroes of Antiquity, the Marks of Antiquity, etc.; Antiquity is also used in respect of the Remains, or Monuments of the Ancients. See MONUMENT, REMAINS, RUINS, etc. Thus we say, the Antiquities of Greece, the Jewish...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    time, both to the actors and spectators. See DRAMA, TRAGEDY, and COMEDY. In the interval between the Acts, the theater remains empty and without any action visible to the spectators; though it is supposed all the while there is one passing out of sight....

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    ARCH, ARK, Arcus, a part of any curved line; e.g., of a circle, ellipse, or the like. See CURVE. An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference thereof, less than a half, or semicircle—Such is AB (Tab. Geometry, fig. 27) See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE....

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    ASHES, Cinis,the terrene or earthy Part of Wood, and other combustible Bodies, remaining after they are burned or consumed with Fire. See Earth, Burning, Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise,...

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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    ALMOND, Amygdala, a kind of Fruit, enclosed with a thick Stone, and under a thin Skin. See FRUIT. The Almond is the Produce of a pretty tall Tree, resembling a Peach Tree; frequent in Germany, France, and the neighbouring Countries; as also in Barbary,...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

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