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

    is to relate, or enumerate the several Matters belonging thereto, without investigating or demonstrating their truth: Demonstrations, strictly speaking, have nothing to do in a Dictionary, no more than authentick Instruments, Declarations, &c. in a...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    and Equity: in regard the Notion of Antipodes was very different in those days, from what it is now—"For besides the Demonstrations of the Mathematicians, say they, the Philosophers too added their Conjectures; and asserted that the Sea made two great...

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

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

    Arithmetic, is the Science of the Properties, Relations, &c. of Numbers considered abstractedly; with the Reasons and Demonstrations of the several Rules. See NUMBER. Euclid furnishes a Theoretical Arithmetic, in the seventh, eighth, and ninth Books of...

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

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

    Part of the Researches and Discoveries of the modern Philosophers, have some of them been reduced to precise Laws and Demonstrations; in which form they make a Branch of Mathematics, called Pneumatics, or Aerometry. See MATHEMATICS, PNEUMATICS, and...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    Signs for Ideas, presents Things to the Imagination, which otherwise seemed out of its Sphere. By this, Geometrical Demonstrations may be wonderfully abridged; and a long Series of Argumentations, wherein the Mind cannot without the utmost Effort and...

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

  • ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE

    in whose Favour the Policy of Assurance was given. See ANNUITY, &c. ASSURANCE, in Logic, See CERTAINTY, EVIDENCE, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. ASSURANCE

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

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

    Elements of Architecture are laid down bySir H. Wotton—The same are reduced by Sturm, and Wolf, to certain rules and demonstrations; and thus is Architecture brought into the form of a Mathematical Art;by the first, in his Mathematicis Juvenilis, and...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    AREA, properly denotes any plain surface whereon wewalk. See SURFACE. The word is Latin, and originally signifies a threshing floor; formed of the verb areo. See THRESHING. Area, in matters of building, signifies the extent ofthe floor. See FLOOR. Area,...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    ARK, or Arc, or Arch, Arēs, in Geometry, Astronomy, etc. See ARC. Ark, Arca, in the Scripture-Language, a kind of floating Vessel built by Noah, for the Preservation of the several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one;...

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