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

    the Form,; in the Order, and Œconomy of the Work: To dispose such a Variety of Materials in such manner, as not to make a confused Heap of incongruous Parts, but one consistent Whole.----And here it must be confess'd there was no Assistance to be had;...

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

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

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    Arbalests, etc. The Word is formed from the French Armes; which Nicod derives from a Latin Phrase, Quod operiant armas, because they cover the Shoulders, or Sides: But ought rather to be brought from Arma; which Varro derives from Arcendo, because they...

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

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

    with respect both of the Order, Number, Power, Figure, &c. -As to the Order, it appears inartificial, precarious, and confused; in that the Vowels and Consonants are not reduced into Classes, with such order of precedence and subsequence as their...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    from the Latin accentus; compounded of ad and cano, "I sing". Accent is also a tone or modulation of the voice, frequently used as a mark of the intention of the speaker; and giving a good or an evil signification to his words. One may give offense with...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    occasions, is called Enunciation, Composition, Judging, etc. See ENUNCIATION, COMPOSITION, JUDGMENT, etc. Affirmation is also used in Grammar, by some late refiners upon that art, for what is usually called a Verb; in regard the office of that part of...

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

  • ASTROLABEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLABE

    Astrolabium, was originally used for a System or Assemblage of the several Circles of the Sphere, in their proper Order and Situation with respect to each other. See CIRCLE and SPHERE. The ancient Astrolabes were the same with our Armillary Spheres. See...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    consists more in the Judgment and readiness of Apprehension, than in any particular Rules, where pure Geometry is made use of, as it was among the Ancients; but at present Algebra is principally used on this Occasion, which furnishes certain Rules to...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    Arch, says Sir Henry Wotton, is nothing but a narrow or contracted vault; and a vault, a dilated arch. See VAULT. Arches are used in large intercolumniations of spaciousbuildings; in porticos, both within and without temples; in public halls, as...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    and PHYSIOLOGY. It is sometimes divided, with regard to its End, into Speculative and Practical; a Division of very little use and moment.—It is also divided, with regard to its Subject, into Human and Comparative. Human, which is absolutely and...

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

  • ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC

    and eighty for Honey. See WORD, ALPHABET, etc. Arabic Figures, or Characters, are the Numeral Characters commonly made use of in large Computations. See FIGURE, NUMERAL, etc. The Arabic Characters stand contradistinguished to the Roman. See CHARACTER,...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    or Assise, Assisa,in Law, a sitting of Judges, or Justices; for the hearing and determining of Causes. See JUDGE, JUSTICE, CAUSE, etc. The Word is French, Assise, of Ais, seated; formed of Assideo, I sit by; which is compounded of ad, to, and sedeo, I...

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

  • APPARATUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARATUS

    the Apparatus of a Feast, Coronation, etc. The Prince made his Entry with great Apparatus and Magnificence. Apparatus is also used for the Utensils, and Appendages belonging to some more considerable Machine. As the Furniture or Apparatus of an...

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

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

    rest. Dr. Hook, and some others, will have it to be no other than the Ether itself; or that fine, fluid, active Matter, diffused through the whole Expanse of the Celestial Regions; which coincides with Sir Isaac Newton’s Subtle Medium, or Spirit. See...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    Chaul; which will so press him between the Jaw-bones, as to prevent his bringing his Head so near his Breast. Arm, is also used in Geography, for a Branch of a Sea, or River. See SEA, OCEAN, RIVER, etc. Italy and Sicily are only parted by an Arm of the...

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

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    Aloe, in Medicine and Pharmacy, the inspissated Juice of a ferulaceous Plant of the same Name; much used as a purgative Remedy. See PURGATIVE.The Aloe Plant grows in divers Parts of the East and West Indies; and is also found in some Countries of...

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

  • ARISTOLOCHIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOLOCHIA

    called Birthwort; a medicinal Plant, used as an Ingredient in Treacle, etc. See THERIACA. Cicero derives its Name from its Inventor Aristolochus; others, from its Virtues—These last suppose it formed from ἄριστος, optimus, and λοχία, bringing forth...

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    to it, begins, in three or four Days, to gather into a Mass; which being taken out, washed, and melted over again, is fit for use. The Mineral Stone, before it is calcined, being exposed to the Air, will moulder in pieces, and yield a Liquor whereof...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    are Veins of a red or golden Color intermixed, which is called Male Antimony; that without them being denominated Female. It fuses in the Fire, though with some difficulty, and dissolves more easily in Water. When dug out of the Earth, it is put into...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • USEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/USES

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