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

    found in the several Branches of Knowledge both natural and artificial; that is, of Nature, first, as she appears to our Senses ; either spontaneously, as in Natural History; or with the Assistance of Art, as in Anatomy, Chymistry, Medicine,...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    Deformity. Our Perception of the Idea's of Beauty, and Harmony is justly reckon'd a Sense; From its Affinity to the other Senses, in this, that the Pleasure does not arise from any Knowledge of Principles, Proportions, Causes, Uses, &c. but strikes at...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Existence has never been fairly proved. As it is hard to define what could never yet be brought under the Judgment of our Senses, all that we shall here offer concerning them, is, that they must needs be extremely subtle Bodies, which escape all manner...

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

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

    is kept in a continual Reprocation. See FIRE. Hence, in good measure, it is, that on the Tops of the higher Mountains; the Senses of Smelling, Hearing, &c. are found very feeble. See MOUNTAIN. II°, Weight, or Gravity.—That the Air is heavy, follows from...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    Arts which relate to the Sight and Hearing, My Lord Bacon observes, are reputed liberal beyond those which regard the other Senses, which are chiefly employed in Matters of Luxury. See SENSE. It has been well noted by some Philosophers, that during the...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    of expressing our ideas and is susceptible of a kind of eloquence as well as the primary. It is an address to our external senses which it endeavors to move and bring into its party by a well-concerted motion and modulation, at the same time that reason...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of Mahomet seems best understood; Mahomet purposing to have his Book called Reading, by way of Eminence; in imitation...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    in Medicine, a sudden Privation of all the Senses, and all the sensible Motions of the Body, excepting that of the Heart and Lungs; attended with a great Depravation of the principal Faculties of the Soul. See SENSATION, MOTION, etc. It differs from a...

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

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

    Transubstantiation, &c. without the hypothesis of Absolute Accidents. Some hold that the usual impressions are made on the senses by the immediate agency of God, and without anything remaining of the former nature. Others ascribe the whole to...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    of Christianity. See ALLEGORICAL, ALLEGORICAL, something containing an Allegory. See ALLEGORY. The Divines find divers Senses in Scripture; a Literal, a Mystical, and an Allegorical Sense. See MYSTIC, &c. The Prophecies, in particular, delivered in the...

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

  • AMBIGUOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBIGUOUS

    something dubious, obscure, or which may be taken in different Senses—The Word is formed of the Latin ambigo, both, and ago, I drive; g. 4. that which keeps the Mind wavering, or in Suspense; not knowing which side to choose. The Answers of the ancient...

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

  • ANAGOGICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGICAL

    eternal and divine; the Matters of the next Life. See ANAGOGY. This Term is principally used with regard to the different Senses of the Scripture. The literal Sense is the first, and the natural Sense. The mystical Sense is founded on the natural Sense,...

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

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

    acting by different laws; and only agreeing in this, that we do not see any physical causes thereof; but that, as to our senses, they may really arise from some power or efficacy in such bodies, whereby they are enabled to act, even upon distant bodies;...

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

  • ACATALEPSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACATALEPSIA

    no further than to Appearances and Verisimilitude. See PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, and ACADEMY. They declaimed much against the Senses; and charged them with a principal Hand in reducing and leading us into Error. See SENSE, ERROR, TRUTH, FALSHOOD, DOUBTING,...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    relating to Animals, their Number, Analogous Structure, Sagacity, Instinct, etc. See ANUS, HEART, NECK, TAIL, FEET, SENSES, INSTINCT, etc. Animals consist of Solids, or firm parts, as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc., and Fluids, as Blood, etc.:The Solids...

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