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

    of framing another Set of Words, to express these Variations, and the Actions to which they are owing, with the several Circumstances and Modifications thereof. By this means, Nature is removed out of her dormant Constitution, and shown in Action; and...

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

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

    &c. Bark, Quinquina, &c. Pislil, Farina, Stamina, &c. Operations thereof, as Vegetation, Germination, Circulation, &c. Circumstances, as Perpendicularity, Parallelism, Fertility, &c. Productions, as Honey, Wax, Balm, Sugar, Manna, &c. Cum, Restn,...

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

  • CIRCUMSTANCEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/CIRCUMSTANCES

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    as to his mind; only grows, as to his body, etc. In ethics, we usually reckon seven adjuncts, popularly called circumstances; Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando. See CIRCUMSTANCE. Adjuncts, in rhetoric and grammar, are certain words...

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

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

    Division of Natural Bodies into the two opposite Classes of Acids and Alkalies. See ACID. Boerhaave scarce takes this Circumstance to be enough to constitute any determinate Class of Bodies. In effect, Alkalies are not of one similar homogeneous Nature:...

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

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

    the more fluid, movable and pervious the Air: And thus, as the degree of Fire is continually varying; according to the Circumstances and Position of the heavenly Bodies; the Air is kept in a continual Reprocation. See FIRE. Hence, in good measure, it...

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

  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    violent, the Patient strongly convulsed, a large Hemorrhage precedes or ensues, the Fœtus is putrify'd, &c.Under other Circumstances it rarely proves mortal. The Treatment is to be adapted to the particular Symptoms and Circumstances: If the Patient be...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    King Henry in the Event of a War then threatened by the Faction of the Guises. "You maintain," says Barclay, "that the Circumstances of Life and Death depend on the Place and Influence of the Celestial Bodies, at the Time when the Child first comes to...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    Relations to me ; but only that there appearing something in them all that bears a resemblance to the rest, in some Circumstances or other, I chuse to call 'em all by one Name, Love. For is I consider the Tendency of the Effects of them all, I shall...

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

  • Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry

    Scalenous, Vertical, Opposite, &c. z°, Figures, or Surfaces, Triangle, Square, Parallelogram, Trapezium, Polygon, &c. Circumstances hereof, as Perimeter, Area, &c. Operations relating hereto, as Bissecting, Dividing, Multiplying, Measuring, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • ACCOMPANYMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPANYMENT

    ACCOMPANYMENT, something attending, or added as a Circumstance to another; either by way of Ornament, or for the sake of Symmetry, or the like. See CIRCUMSTANCE. The Music, in Dramatic Performances, should only be a simple Accompaniment. The Organists...

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

  • Phonics - Musichttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics

    Composition, as Melody, Harmony, Counter-point. Symphony, Synaulia, Chime, Song, Rhythmus, &c. Kinds, Genera, Mode, &c. Circumstances, Key, Cleff, Signature, Transposition, &c. Staff, Scale, Gammut, Solfaing, Modulation, &c. Instruments, Organ, Bell,...

    • Type: Category

  • Paintinghttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/painting

    PAINTING, or the DESIGNING of Objects in Clair-obscure, Proportion, &c. with Ordonnance, Expression, &c. Circumstances hereof, Attitude, Contrast, Group, &c. Kinds, Limning, Miniature, Camieux, Fresco, &c. Enamelling, Mosaic, &c.

    • Type: Category

  • Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology

    &c. In the Bible, Pentateuch, Hagiographa, Psalter, Gospel, Apocalypse, &c. Canon, Deuterocanonical, Apocrypha, &c. Circumstances thereof, Style, Allegory, Type, Parable, Mystical, &c. Text, Versim, Septuagint, Vulgate, &c. Paraphrase, Targum, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    of Articles arises hence, that in Languages which have not different Terminations to express the different States and Circumstances of Nouns; there is something required to supply that Office. See TERMINATION. The Latins have no Articles; but the...

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

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

    See CHYLE, BLOOD, HUMOUR, SECRETION, etc. The parts of Animals are distinguished from those of Vegetables by two Circumstances: The first, that when burnt, they are found perfectly insipid; all Animal Salts being volatile and flying off with heat: the...

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

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

    some Chemical Process, whereby its Nature and Powers are altered or abated; and this differently, according to the Circumstances of the Preparation. See ANTIMONIALS. Antimony, says Mr. Hoyle, alone, or associated with one or two other Ingredients, by a...

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

  • ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE

    from a certain intermediate point therein: Our Notion of a Circle is adequate if we have distinct ideas of all these circumstances, viz. a curve returning upon itself, a middle point, and equality of distance, etc. See NOTION, DEFINITION, etc. All...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    ATLANTIS, or ATLANTICA, in Antiquity an Island spoken of by Plato and other Writers, under some extraordinary Circumstances; and rendered famous by a Controversy among the Moderns about it. The most distinct Account of this celebrated Place, is given...

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

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

    its discoverer; as the former does, its improver.—The laws of motion, percussion, etc., in sensible bodies under various circumstances, as falling, projected, etc., as ascertained by the later philosophers, do not reach to those more remote, intestine...

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