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  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    Quantity. See DISCRETE and QUANTITY. Arithmetic consists chiefly in the four great Rules or Operations of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. See each in its Place, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. 'Tis true, for the...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    ALTITUDE, Altitudo, in Geometry, the third Dimension of a Body; called also Height, or Depth. See HEIGHT; see also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to...

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

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

    Surd, &c. Relations, as Root, Power, Square, Cube, &c. Rules or Operations thereof, as Notation, Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, &c. Reduction, Practice, Position, &c. Extraction, Approximation, &c. Instruments subservient thereto, as Logarithms,...

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    are various ways of accounting; as, by enumeration, or setting one by one, and by the rules of arithmetic, addition, subtraction, etc. See ARITHMETIC, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, etc. We account time by years, months, etc. The Greeks accounted it by...

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

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

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

  • Analyticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/analytics

    ANALYTICS, or the Resolution of PROBLEMS by Species or Symbolical Expressions : Rules or Operations hereof, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, &c. Application thereof, in Combinations, Permutations, Magic Squares, Chances, Gaming, &c. Series,...

    • Type: Category

  • Arithmetichttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic

    Surd, &c. Relations, as Root, Power, Square, Cube, &c. Rules or Operations thereof, as Notation, Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, &c. Reduction, Practice, Position, &c. Extraction, Approximation, &c. Instruments subservient thereto, as Logarithms,...

    • Type: Category

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

    see the Articles Character, Quantity, &c. For the Method of performing the several Operations in Algebra, see Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, etc. As to the Origin of this Art, we are much in the dark. The Invention is usually attributed to...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

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

  • ARITHMETICAL COMPLEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETICAL%20COMPLEMENT

    ARITHMETICAL COMPLEMENT, of a Logarithm, is what the Logarithm wants of 10.0000000. See COMPLEMENT. Thus the Arithmetical Complement of 7.1079054, is 2.89209463; where each Figure, but the last, is subtracted from 9; and that from 10. See LOGARITHM....

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

  • ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE

    ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCE, is the Difference between the Right and Oblique Ascension. See ASCENSION. Or it is the Space of Time which the Sun rises or sets before or after six of the Clock. To find the Ascensional Difference trigonometrically, having the...

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

  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    ALLIGATION, in Arithmetic, a Rule or Operation, whereby Questions are resolved, relating to the Mixture of diverse Commodities or Ingredients together, with the Value, Effect, &c. thereof. See RULE, MIXTURE, etc. The Word is formed of the Latin...

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