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  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to the Horizon, and a Visual Ray emitted from an Object to the Eye.For the Laws of the Vision of Altitude, see...

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

  • APPARENT PLACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/optics/APPARENT%20PLACE

    is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays which falls on the Pupil of the Eye, from each Point of any near Object, is made to flow as close together as that which comes from a distant one; or when, by...

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

  • ANAMORPHOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAMORPHOSIS

    Areola of the Square ABCD: by this means you will obtain a deformed Image, which yet will appear in just Proportion to an Eye distant from it the length FV, and raised above its height, VS. See DESIGNING. It will be easy to manage it so, that the...

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

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

    narrow, in comparison of ours, which is extended, by the Artifice of Language, over the whole Globe. They see with their own Eyes only; we with those of the whole Species.—In respect, by Language we are upon much the same footing, in respect of...

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

  • AGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGILOPS

    a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See Eye, Tumor, and Ulcer. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats are...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    from all Bodies by Distillation. See DISTILLATION. Aqueous Humour, is the first or outermost of the three Humours of the Eye. See HUMOUR and EYE. It lies immediately under the Cornea, which it causes to protuberate a little; and is supposed to be...

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

  • ÆGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ÆGILOPS

    a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See EYE, TUMOR, and ULCER. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats are...

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

  • ALBUGINEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALBUGINEA

    in Anatomy, the outermost coat or tegument of the eye; also called the tunica albuginea, conjunctiva, &c. See SCLERA, CONJUNCTIVA, &c. It takes the name albuginea, from its whiteness; being this that forms what we call the white of the eye. See EYE. The...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    ellipse and hyperbola two. See CURVE. AXIS IN OPTICKS—Optick Axis, or Visual Axis, is a ray passing through the centre of the eye; or it is that ray which proceeding out of the middle of the luminous cone, falls perpendicularly on the crystalline...

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

  • ADNATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADNATA

    in Anatomy, a pretty thick white membrane, investing the ball of the eye; called also Conjunctiva. See TUNIC, and CONJUNCTIVA. The Adnata makes what we commonly call the white of the eye; whence it is also called the Albuginea. See EYE, etc. ADNATA

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

  • ALBUGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUGO

    or Album Oculi, the same with albuginea, or white of the eye. See EYE, ALBUGINEA, &c. Albugo is also a disease of the eye; otherwise called leukoma, and popularly, pearl and web. See LEUKOMA, and PEARL. The albugo is a whitish speck or film, growing,...

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

  • ABDUCTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDUCTOR

    of the exterior Os Sesamoideum pollicis : It serves to draw the great Toe from the rest. See TOE. ABDUCTOR Oculi, or of the Eye, is one of the four Recti, or strait Muscles, arising from the bottom of the Orbit, and spread over the first proper Tunic ;...

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

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

    that meansframe to it self Abstract Ideas, of a different Nature and Kind from the sensible ones. For an Example hereof, The Eye perceiving an Object extended, coloured, and moved, resolves this Compound Idea, into its simple, constituent ones ; and...

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

  • ADDUCTOR Oculihttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDUCTOR%20Oculi

    ADDUCTOR Oculi, a Muscle of the Eye; so called, because it inclines its Pupil toward the Nose. See EYE.It is also called Bibitorius; because it directs the Eye toward the Cup in drinking. See BIBITORY. ADDUCTOR Oculi

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

  • ANTHRACOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHRACOSIS

    a Disease of the Eyes, occasioned by a corrosive Ulcer, covered with Skin, and attended with a general Swelling, especially of the Parts about the Eye. See EYE and ULCER. The Word is Greek ἄνθρακωσις, and denotes an Inflammation resembling a Coal;...

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

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

    Artificial Day. See DAY. Artificial Globe, Sphere, &c. See GLOBE, SPHERE, &c. Artificial Horizon. See HORIZON. Artificial Eye. See EYE. Artificial Numbers,are Secants, Sines, and Tangents—See SECANT, SINE, and Tangent; see also LOGARITHMICAL. Artificial...

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

  • ASTROLABEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLABE

    of some Circle thereof. See PROJECTION and STEREOGRAPHIC. The usual Planes of Projection are that of the Equinoctial, the Eye being supposed in the Pole of the World; and that of the Plane of the Meridian, the Eye being supposed in the Point of...

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

  • AERIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AERIAL

    etc. Aerial Perspective, is that which represents Bodies weakened and diminished, in proportion to their distance from the Eye. See PERSPECTIVE. Aerial Perspective, has chiefly to do with the Colours of Objects, whose force and lustre it takes off more...

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

  • APPARENT MAGNITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARENT%20MAGNITUDE

    to the apparent ones; and if the apparent Diameters be equal, the true Diameters will be as the Distances from the Eye. Hence, when neither the Distances nor the apparent Diameters are equal, the true Diameters will be in a Ratio compounded of the...

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

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

    equal. See MAGNITUDE and VISION. Angles of the Interval, of two places, is the Angle subtended by two Lines directed from the Eye to those places. Angle of Incidence, in Catoptrics, is the lesser Angle made by an incident Ray of Light, with the Plane of...

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