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

    which is continually flowing into it from the heavenly Bodies. See FIRE. To which, probably, may be added the Magnetical Effluvia of the Earth. See MAGNETISM. 2°, Those numberless Particles, which in form either of Vapours, or dry Exhalations, are...

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

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

    into a firm Body; and the Fluid will be froze or reduced into Ice. See FREEZING. XXV. If a Body emit a great Quantity of Effluvia whose attractive Powers are very strong; as those Effluvia approach any other very light Body, their attractive Powers will...

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

  • AMULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMULET

    the great Repute they were anciently in; yet the great Mr. Bayle alleges 'em as an Instance of the Ingress of external Effluvia into the Habit; in order to show the great Porosity of the human Body.—He adds, that he is persuaded some of these external...

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

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

    gather from what we have said under the Articles, Air, Atmosphere, Weather, Ether, Fire, Light; Comet, Planet, Magnetism, Effluvias etc. For this Astrology, Mr. Boyle has a just Apology in his History of the Air.—Generation and Corruption being the...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    Comet and Sun.—See also MACULAE; Tail, etc. Atmosphere of solid, or consistent Bodies, is a kind of Sphere formed by the Effluvia, or minute Corpuscles emitted from them. See SPHERE and EFFLUVIA. Mr. Boyle endeavors to show that all Bodies, even the...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    intended. See ELEMENT, QUALITY, etc. The Galenists, on the other hand, hold that the earth emits a sort of attractive effluvia, innumerable threads whereof continually ascend and descend; which threads, proceeding like radii from a common centre,...

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

  • AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS

    them to assign the cause of this phenomenon, with any certainty—Dr. Halley, however, imagines that watery vapours, or effluvia, rarified exceedingly by subterraneous fire, and tinged with sulphurous streams, which naturalists suppose to be the cause of...

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

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

    Visions, by Voices, Dreams, or the like. What matters it whether the Sound of a Cymbal, or the Sight of an Image, or the Effluvia of a Liquor be the Occasion? So long as He is the Cause, what matters it what Instrument He makes use of? And of all the...

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

  • AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI

    could not fly over it, but sank down dead; which some later Writers have chosen to attribute to this, that the sulphurous Effluvia hereof, not being of consistency to sustain the Birds, they fall by their own Weight. This Circumstance, joined with the...

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

  • APORRHOEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/APORRHOE

    Ἀπορροή, in Philosophy, sulphureous Effluvia or Exhalations, emitted from the Earth, and subterranean Bodies. See VAPOUR and EXHALATION. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀπορρέω (aporrheo), to flow from. See MEPHITIC, etc. APORRHOE

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