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

    the same Nature; and each of them in their turn to Things wholly different. Whence, any Definition that can hold of them universally, must needs be very abstracted, and general; and may hold of almost any thing else; and of consequence can express very...

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

  • UNIVERSITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/UNIVERSITY

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    moved on the Face of the Deep." See GOD, ABYSS, etc. The modern Platonists explain their Master’s Anima Mundi by a certain universal, ethereal Spirit, which in the Heavens exists perfectly pure, as retaining its proper Nature; but on Earth, pervading...

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

  • UNIVERSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/UNIVERSE

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    is also a Name attributed to certain Officers of the Emperor, who compose a superior Court or Council, which has an universal Jurisdiction, and without Appeal, over all the Subjects of the Empire, in all Processes entered therein. See EMPEROR and...

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

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

    is acknowledged by Mr. Boyle to be the most heterogeneous Body in the Universe. Boerhaave even shows it to be a universal Chaos, or Colluvies of all the Kinds of created Bodies.—Whatever Fire can volatilize is found in the air; but there is no Body that...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    Gold——And hence also the Artists themselves are called χρυσοποιοί, Poets, Makers, and χρυσοποιηταί, Gold-makers. 2°, An Universal Medicine, adequate to all Diseases. See ELIXIR. 3°, An Universal Dissolvent, or Alkahest. See ALKAHEST.4°, An Universal...

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

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

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

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

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

    Association, Abstraction, &c. Its Perceptions, as Substance, Accident, Mode, &c. Relations, as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c....

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    us'd in divers Arts, and with divers Intentions. See ABBREVIATURE. Thus, Among Logicians, A is us'd to denote an universal Affirmative Proportion ; according to the Verse, Asserit Ai negat E, verùm generaliter Ambæ. Thus, in the first Mood, a Syllogism...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    of matter, in all bodies: so that let them exist under what modificationssoever, there can be no alteration made of this universal property. — Hence, the division of matter into what, for distinction's sake, may be called Spirit, does not give it any...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    3000 fixed Stars; which is more than double the Number in that of Hevelius.—Nothing now seemed wanting to Astronomy, but a universal and complete Theory of the celestial Phenomena, explained according to their true Motions and physical Causes, which has...

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

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

    ACT, Actus, in Physics, an effective exercise or application of some power or faculty. See ACTION. In this sense, the word Act stands opposed to Power, Potentia, which is the capacity of acting. See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and...

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

  • APPARITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARITOR

    APPARITOR, or Apparitour, or Apparator, a Beadle in a University, who carries the Mace before the Masters and the Faculties. See BEADLE and UNIVERSITY. Apparitors are also Messengers, who cite Men to appear in the Ecclesiastical Courts. See SUMMONS,...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    and the Square; the Root with them being called Res, and the Square Census.—Others call it Specious Arithmetic; others Universal Arithmetic, &c. Menage derives the Word from the Arabic Algebra, which signifies the setting of a broken Bone; supposing...

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

  • ARMINIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANISM

    Predestination, and Grace, too severe, they have returned to those of the Roman Church, and maintain, that there is a universal Grace given to all Men; that Man is always free, and at Liberty to reject or embrace Grace, etc. See GRACE, FREE-WILL, etc....

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

  • ASCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT

    in logic,is a kind of Argumentation, wherein we rise from Particulars to Universals. See Universal, Argument, and Particular. As, when we say, This Man is an Animal, and that Man is an Animal, and the other Man, &c. therefore every Man is an Animal.—Or...

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

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

    Effervescence, when mixed with another sort of Bodies, called Alkalies. See EFFERVESCENCE. Yet, this Property alone is not universally to be depended on, to determine a Body an Acid, without the joint Consideration of the Taste, and the Changes of...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    they believe to be the principle of life in vegetables. See CENTER, etc. Others, by the word Archaeus, mean a certain universal spirit, diffused throughout the whole creation, the active cause of all the phenomena in nature. See SPIRIT, NATURE, etc....

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    analogous to the Agreements or Disagreements thereof. All these Imperfections are endeavoured to be obviated in the Universal Alphabets, or Characters of Mr. Lodowic Bishop Wilkins, &c. See UNIVERSAL CHARACTER. In the French King’s Library, is an Arabic...

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