Cyclopædia
Assuming creation is required, the following 12 results were found.
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ANNIHILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIHILATION
or of totally destroying and taking away its Existence. See SUBSTANCE and EXISTENCE. Annihilation stands opposed to Creation: The one supposes something made out of nothing, the other nothing made out of something. See CREATION. All Annihilation must be...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
they exist in a kind of still Life, or in a State of Independency one upon another. But in regard we do not consider the Creation as thus quiescent, but observe a great number of Mutations arise in the Things we are conversant among; we are hence put...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE
QUARTER, etc. To find the Moon's Age, see Moon. Age, in Chronology: The Age of the World is the time passed since the Creation. See CREATION. The several Ages of the World may be reduced to these three grand Epochs, viz, the Age of the Law of Nature,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Chronologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology
or the Doctrine of TIME ; measur'd by Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour. Age, Period, Cycle, &c. Commencing from Epocha, Creation, Hegira, &c. Laid down in Fasti, Almanack, Calendar, Julian, Gregorian, &c. Accommodated to Feasts, Feriæ, Easter, &c. by means...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
or the Doctrine of TIME ; measur'd by Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour. Age, Period, Cycle, &c. Commencing from Epocha, Creation, Hegira, &c. Laid down in Fasti, Almanack, Calendar, Julian, Gregorian, &c. Accommodated to Feasts, Feriæ, Easter, &c. by means...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
of duration, actions are again divided into Instantaneous, where the whole effect is produced in the same moment; as the Creation of Light: And Successive, where the effect is produced by degrees; as Corruption, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Dissolution,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER
Anaxagoras, supposing it of the Nature of Fire.See FIRE. The Philosophers cannot conceive that the largest Part of the Creation should be perfectly void; and therefore fill it with a Species of Matter under the Denomination of Ether. —But they vary...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT
Ses. VIII. Some of the Fathers seem to give countenance to the same opinion. S. Basil, in his VIth Homily on the Creation, observes that Light, or rather Brightness, the Splendor of Light, to phos or thraskia tou phōtos, is a thing distinct from its...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ARCHETYPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHETYPE
talk of an archetypal world; meaning, the world, such as it existed in the divine mind, or in the idea of God, before the creation. See IDEA, PLATONISM, etc. The word is compounded of ἀρχή, beginning; and τύπος, type. See TYPE. ARCHIACOLYTHUS, g.d....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
Repletion ; and may be either cured, prevented, or remedied, by Abstinence. See REPLETION, EVACUATION, &c. Among the Brute Creation, we see extraordinary Instances of long Abstinence.---— 'Tis the natural Course for divers Species to pass four, five, or...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS
vegetables. See CENTER, etc. Others, by the word Archaeus, mean a certain universal spirit, diffused throughout the whole creation, the active cause of all the phenomena in nature. See SPIRIT, NATURE, etc. Others, instead of Archaeus, choose to call it...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI
to have meant God, or the Spirit of God; and to have taken the Hint from Moses, who in his Account of the first Day’s Creation, says, "The Spirit of God moved on the Face of the Deep." See GOD, ABYSS, etc. The modern Platonists explain their Master’s...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified