Cyclopædia
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TABLING of Fineshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TABLING-of-Fines
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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SEXAGENARY TABLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEXAGENARY-TABLES
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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TABLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TABLE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
by the greatest Geniuses, and patronized bythe greatest Princes.—Alphonso, King of Castile, enriched it withthose Tables which still bear his Name. See TABLES. Copernicus re-established the ancient Pythagorean System; and Tycho Brahe published a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS
ABACUS, among the Antients, was a kind of Cupboard, or Buffet. See BUFFET. In this Sense Livy, describing the Luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the Conquest of Asia, says, They had their Abaci, Beds, &c. plated over with Gold. Dec. IV. Lib....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Arithmetic
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WATER-Tablehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/WATER-Table
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
Giovanni Poleni, published in the Venetian Miscellany, 1709.—To these may be added,Logarithmical Arithmetic, performed by Tables of Logarithms. See LOGARITHM. The best Piece on this Subject, is Henry Briggs's Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. To this Head...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL
Roemer, and Kirch. See further under the articles OBSERVATORY, CATALOGUE, etc. See CELESTIAL OBSERVATIONS. ASTRONOMICAL Tables, See ASTRONOMICAL TABLE. ASTRONOMICAL Quadrant, See ASTRONOMICAL QUADRANT. ASTRONOMICAL Telescope, See ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE
Sign, the ascensional Difference being added to the Right Ascension, the Sum is the Oblique Ascension; and thus may Tables of Oblique Ascensions be constructed for the several Degrees of the Ecliptic, under the several Elevations of the Pole. See TABLE....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE
ANGLE, Ἀγκύλος, in Geometry, the Aperture or mutual Inclination of two Lines, which meet, and form an Angle in their Point of Intersection. See LINE. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Geometry, Fig. 91.) formed by the Lines AB, and AC, meeting in the Point...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS
ANTIPERISTASIS, in Philosophy, the Action of two opposite Qualities, one whereof, by its Opposition excites and heightens the Force of the other. See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALPHONSINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALPHONSINE
ALPHONSINE Table. See TABLE. ALPHONSINE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Astronomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy
Maculæ, &c. Observations thereof, taken with the Quadrant, Gnomon, Micrometer, Reticula, &c. Collected in Catalogue, Tables, &c. Hypotheses, or Systems thereof, Copernican, Tychonic, Ptolemaic, &c. , Exhibited in Sphere, Globe, &c.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Houshold, Chamber, Green-Cloth, Ward-robe, &c. Under Steward, Chamberlain, Comptroller, Cosferer, Aga, Oda, &c. Guard, Stables, Ordnance, &c. directed by Captain, Master, Equerry, &c. Militia, Navy, Post, Timariot, Arriere-ban, &c. Dignities, Dauphin,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC
who lived about the Year 1050; if not in ordinary Affairs, yet at least in Mathematical ones, and particularly Astronomical Tables. The same Author gives us an Instance of their Antiquity in England, from a Mantel-Tree of a Chimney, in the Parsonage...
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
branch of Cognation, which only includes the descendants in the male line. See CONSANGUINITY. By the Law of the Twelve Tables, males and females succeeded one another according to the order of proximity, and without any regard to the sex. But the laws...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE
two Persons, or two Families, by means of Marriage; called also Affinity. See MARRIAGE, and AFFINITY. The Law of the Twelve Tables forbids all Alliance between Persons of unequal Rank and Condition. —And in Portugal, we are told, the Daughters of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA
ANA, or aa, in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Measure. See A. Hence Analectica Proportio is used by some Writers to signify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EQUALITY, RATIO, &c. Ana, in Matters of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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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