Cyclopædia
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ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES
Cinis,the terrene or earthy Part of Wood, and other combustible Bodies, remaining after they are burned or consumed with Fire. See Earth, Burning, Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise, all the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
Thought, who probably learnt it from the Jews of the School of Tiberias. But the Jesuits de Trevoux give the thing another Turn : Those Fathers have prov'd that the Hebrew Aleph, Arabic Eliph, and Syriac Oleph, are real Consonants; and that the same...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS
him, who give the History of the Orders, tell us, the Abacus was originally intended to represent a square Tile laid over an Urn, or rather over a Basket. An Athenian old Woman happening to place a Basket thus cover'd over the Root of an Acanthus ; that...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture