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  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one; and in a...

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

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

    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. The base or line that joins the two extremes of the...

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

  • AMPHITHEATREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPHITHEATRE

    Combats of Gladiators, and those of wild Beasts. See SPECTACLE, GLADIATOR, etc. Their Theatre was built in the form of a Semicircle, only exceeding a just Semicircle by one fourth part of the Diameter; and the Amphitheatre was nothing else but a double...

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

  • Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry

    Lines, Canons, &c. Operations arising herefrom, as Surveying, taking Angles or Bearings, &c. with Quadrant, Plain-Table, Semicircle, Circumferentor, &c. taking Distances, with Chain, Perambulator, &c. Plotting into Draught, Map, &c. with Protractor, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Lines, Canons, &c. Operations arising herefrom, as Surveying, taking Angles or Bearings, &c. with Quadrant, Plain-Table, Semicircle, Circumferentor, &c. taking Distances, with Chain, Perambulator, &c. Plotting into Draught, Map, &c. with Protractor, &c....

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

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    of the other Leg of the Angle: The Degree it cuts in the Limb of the Instrument, shows the Quantity of the Angle. See SEMICIRCLE, To take an Angle with a Quadrant, Theodolite, Plain Table, Circumferentor, Compass, &c., see Quadrant, Theodolite, Plain...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    in order to generate a solid. See SOLID, GENESIS, etc. Thus a sphere is conceived to be formed by the rotation of a semicircle about its diameter or axis, and a right cone by that of a right angle triangle about its perpendicular leg, which is here its...

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

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

    eight Inches over;which grows narrower towards the bottom, where, on the Fore-part it ends in a Point, encompassed with a Semicircle of Iron, to keep the melted Metal.—About the middle of the Back, there is another Hole, to receive the Nose of a pair of...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    which was heretofore in the middle of the city, but is now without the walls. The foundation of the Areopagus is a semicircle, with an esplanade of 140 paces around it, whichproperly made the hall of the Areopagus. There is a tribunal cut in the middle...

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