Cyclopædia
Assuming corpuscles is required, the following 8 results were found.
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
respect of Atoms; or the smallest constituent Particles, sometimes call’d Particles of the last Composition, and not of Corpuscles or Compositions made up of these; for they may be so put together, as that the most solid Corpuscles may form the lightest...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
be distinguished into Vulgar, or Heterogeneous; and Proper, or Elementary. Vulgar or Heterogeneous Air, is a Coalition of Corpuscles of various Kinds, which together constitute one fluid Mass, wherein we live and move, and which we are continually...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE
within the Blood unfolds its Spring, and forces the Blood to take up a larger Space than it did before. See BLOOD, HEART, CORPUSCLES, etc. The Reason we are not sensible of this Pressure, is well explained by Borelli, De motu animalium & Gravitate fac....
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
alternate Fits of easy Refraction and easy Transmission, have different Powers inherent in the different Sides of its Corpuscles, be resolvable by a Prism into all the Appearances of a Rainbow, exhibit the Species of Objects, act on and consume Bodies,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
that yielded both the Acids as well as the Alkalies. All the Difference is, that the Alkaly imbibes and retains certain Corpuscles of the Fire, whereas nothing foreign is superadded to the Acid. On this Principle every Acid is volatile, and every Alkaly...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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AMULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMULET
Time pervade the Pores of a living Animal; by supposing an Agreement between the Pores of the Skin, and the Figure of the Corpuscles. Keillini has demonstrated the Possibility of the Thing in his last Propositions, De Febribus: And the like is done by...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS
FOSSIL, METAL, etc. Some Bodies of the Fossil Tribe consist of Particles so very minute, and so firmly united, that the Corpuscles thereof need less heat to carry them off, than to separate them into their Principles: So that the Analysis is...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Logics
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AGGREGATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGGREGATE
things aggregated or added together. See ACCRETION, and SUM.Natural bodies are Aggregates, or Assemblages of Particles or Corpuscles, bound together by the Principle of Attraction. See BODY, PARTICLE, &c.The word is formed of ad, to, and grex, gregis, a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified