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

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

  • COMPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COMPOSITION

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

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

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • COMPOSITE Orderhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COMPOSITE-Order

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

  • 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

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

    ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...

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

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

    ANTIMONY, Antimonium, in Natural History, a Mineral Substance, of a Metallic Nature; having all the seeming Characters of a real Metal, excepting Malleability. See MINERAL and METAL. Antimony is what we properly call a Semi-Metal; being a Fossil Glebe,...

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

  • 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

  • ACANTHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACANTHUS

    ACANTHUS, in Architecture, an Ornament in the Corinthian and Composite Orders; being the Representation of the Leaves of an Acanaceous Plant, in the Capitals thereof.See CAPITAL, and LEAVES. It takes its Name from δKανθος, the Name given the Plant...

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

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

    ALGEBRA, a Method of resolving Problems by means of Equations. See PROBLEM, and EQUATION. Some Authors define Algebra the Art of solving all Problems capable of being solved: But this is rather the Idea of Analysis, or the Analytic Art. See ANALYSIS.The...

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

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

    AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...

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

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

    ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...

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

  • ARCHITRAVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITRAVE

    consists of a plain face, crowned with a fillet; and is half a module in height. See Face,Tuscan, &c. In the Doric and Composite, it has two faces, or fasciae;and three in the Ionic and Composite; in which last orderit is ⅔ of a module high, though but...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    all invented by the ancients at different times, and on differentoccasions, viz. Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite; the history, characteristics, etc. of each whereof seeunder their respective articles, Tuscan, Doric, Ionic,Corinthian, and...

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

  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

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

  • AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC

    AMMONIAC.—Gum Ammoniac; or, as it is sometimes, tho improperly, called, Armmoniac, is a kind of Gum, brought from the East Indies; supposed to ooze from an umbelliferous Plant. See GUM. It ought to be in dry Drops, white within, yellowish without,...

    • 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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    ARTIFICIAL,Artificalis, something made by Art; not produced naturally, or in the common Course of Things. See ART. © Art is usually considered as a Thing very different from Nature; and artificial Things, from natural ones: Whence arises another more...

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

  • ABSINTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/absinthium

    ABSINTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...

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

  • ABSYNTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSYNTHIUM

    ABSYNTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...

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