Cyclopædia
Assuming troy is required, the following 6 results were found.
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AVOIRDUPOIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVOIRDUPOIS
used in England; the Pound whereof contains sixteen Ounces. See WEIGHT. The Proportion of a Pound Avoirdupois to a Pound Troy, is as 17 to 14. See TROY, POUND, and OUNCE. All the larger and coarser Commodities are weighed by Avoirdupois Weight; as...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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TROY-weighthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TROY-weight
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE
a Weight of Air equal to 35 cubical Feet of Water; and a cubical Foot of Water, being found, by Experiment to weigh 76 Pound Troy Weight, therefore the Compas of a Foot square upon the Superficies of our Bodies, sustains a quantity of Air equal to 2660...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
of Arms: Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, with Masque and antique Pageantry: Stories of Thebes or Pelops Line; or the Tale of Troy divine: Of Arthur and Cambusean bold; of Cambal and of Algarsife, and who took Canace to Wife." If these fail, they have all...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS
is doubtless a most antient and universal Game: The common Opinion is, that it was invented by Palamedes at the Siege of Troy. Others attribute the Invention to Diomedes, who liv'd in the Time of Alexander: The Romance of the Rose ascribes it to one...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Game
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ANACHRONISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANACHRONISM
places Dido in Africa at the Time of Aeneas; though, in reality, she did not come there till 300 Years after the taking of Troy—An Error on the other side, whereby a Fact is placed later, and lower than it should be, is called a Parachronism. See...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology