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  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    from each other; having scarce anything in common, but their being effervescent with Acids. The one is a Class of native, fixed, scentless, insipid, mild, astringent, fossil Bodies: The other a Set of such as are volatile, odorous, sapid, caustic,...

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

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

    called Acid Salts. See SALT. Add, that the Acid Salts are all found to be volatile; by which they are distinguished from the fixed, which are either fixed, or at least have a urinous, instead of an acid Taste.See VOLATILE, FIXED, and URINOUS. Some late...

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

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

    of permanently elastic Air.' Ubi supra. Of the same opinion is Sir Isaac Newton; 'The particles of dense, compact, and fixed substances, cohering by a strong attractive force, are not separable without a vehement Heat, or perhaps not without...

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

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

    that the Earth and Planets turn round the Sun, which stands immovable in the Center; that the diurnal Motion of the Sun and fixed Stars, was not real but apparent, arising from the Earth’s Motion round its own Axis, etc. See PYTHAGOREAN. Yet Vitruvius...

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

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

    of our Senses, with that other Set of Things analogous hereto, the proper Objects of the Imagination, are represented by fixed Names; denoting, some of them, Individuals; others Kinds, &c. Now these, which make the first or fundamental Part of a...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    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 other Principles being gone off in the Smoke. See Smoke, Fuel, Fixed,...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    Salts being volatile and flying off with heat: the contrary of which is found in Vegetables, which constantly retain some fixed Salt in all their Ashes. See SALT, VOLATILE, and FIXED. The second, that no sincere Acid is contained in any Animal Juice;...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    and Mars, being acted upon by Jupiter and Saturn, their Aphelions move a small matter in Consequents with respect to the fixed Stars, and this in the sesquiplicate Ratio of the Distance of those Planets from the Sun. Hence, if the Aphelion of Mars move...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • AMBARVALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMBARVALIA

    in Sacrifice, the Ceremony was also called Suovetaurilia. See SUOVETAURILIA. It is not certain whether this Feast was fixed, or moveable; nor whether it was celebrated once, or twice a year; Authors being of different Opinions on both those Heads. The...

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

  • ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO

    last, and 4800 in case of Peace. Secondly, The Duty to be paid the King of Spain, during the Farm, or Asiento; which was fixed at 33 Pieces of Eight per Head.—By the Treaty of Utrecht, Philip V. being acknowledged King of Spain by the Allies; it was one...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    from various Considerations. See AIR, ELASTICITY, &c. Acceleration is also applied in ancient Astronomy in respect of the Fixed Stars. This Acceleration was the Difference between the Revolution of the Primum Mobile and the Solar Revolution; which was...

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

  • APPOINTMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOINTMENT

    gives large Appointments to several of the Officers in his Service. Appointments differ from Wages, in that the latter are fixed and ordinary, being paid by the ordinary Treasurers; whereas Appointments are annual Gratifications granted by Brevet for a...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    rate he pleased; but by a Stat.3d Edw. I, a restraint was laid on common persons being Lords, and they were tied down to a fixed proportion.By a subsequent statute, the same rate was extended even to the King. They seem to have been first established...

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

  • AMBULATORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBULATORY

    a Term anciently applied to such Courts, &c. as were not fixed to any certain Place; but held sometimes in one Place, and sometimes in another. In opposition to Sedentary Courts. See COURT, and SEDENTARY. The Court of Parliament was anciently...

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

  • ALDEBARANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALDEBARAN

    an Arabian Name, for a fixed Star of the first Magnitude, in the Head of the Sign or Constellation Taurus, or the Bull; and hence popularly called the Bull's Eye. Its Longitude, Latitude, etc. see among the rest of the Constellation Taurus. ALDEBARAN

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    court. Some reckon thirty-one,others fifty-one, and others five hundred. In effect, theirnumber seems not to have been fixed, but was more or lessevery year. By an inscription quoted by Volateranus, itappears they were then 300. At first this tribunal...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    The axis in peritrochio takes place in the motion of every machine, where a circle may be conceived described about a fixed axis, concentric to the plane of a cylinder about which it is placed; as in crane-wheels, mill-wheels, capstans, etc. See WHEEL....

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

  • ALGOLhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALGOL

    or Medusa’s Head, a Fixed Star of the third Magnitude, in the Constellation Perseus. Its Longitude, Latitude, &c. see under the Article PERSEUS. ALGOL

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

  • ALLOYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOY

    in our Mints, is about a twelfth Part. See COINING. The Word seems derived from the French, Loy, Law; in regard the Alloy is fixed by Law. ALLOY

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