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  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    the future Scene of his Disputations. See LYCEUM. It being his Practice to philosophize Walking, he got the Appellation Peripateticus; whence his Followers were also called Peripatetics—Though others will have him to have been thus named from his...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics

    Generation, Degeneration, Transmutation, &c. Systems or Hypothecs hereof, Corpuscular, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Cartesian, Newtonian, &c.---- Occult and Fictitious Qualities, Powers, and Operations, Antiperistasis, Sympathy, Antipathy,...

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

    Generation, Degeneration, Transmutation, &c. Systems or Hypothecs hereof, Corpuscular, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Cartesian, Newtonian, &c.---- Occult and Fictitious Qualities, Powers, and Operations, Antiperistasis, Sympathy, Antipathy,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    Knife; but is not the least affected if the same is done with a Pair of Scissors. Philosophical Transactions No. 339. The Peripatetics account for Antipathies from certain occult Qualities inherent in the Bodies. See OCCULT, PERIPATETIC, etc. See also...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    to know a thing well, a man must first have doubted of it; and that 'tis with doubting all our knowledge must begin. See PERIPATETIC, PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, etc. Academics, or rather Academists, is also used among us for the Members of the modern...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    or atmosphere is concerned is that the acceleration holds in vacuo, and even more regularly than in air. See VACUUM. The Peripatetic account is worse than this: the motion of heavy bodies downwards, say they, arises from an intrinsic principle, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics
  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    though M. de Hamel thinks, without any great reason; for the generality of them admit something very much like it—The Peripatetics have recourse to celestial Influences, in order to account for the Origin of Forms, and the secret Powers of Bodies. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    middle Region of the Air, which is continually cold. This Antiperistasis is a Principle of great Use and Extent in the Peripatetic Philosophy. "It is necessary," according to the Authors of that Class, "that Cold and Heat be both of them endued with a...

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