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

    have some proper for every purpose, according to the bulk, strength, delicacy, richness, or simplicity required. Hence arose five orders or manners of building, all invented by the ancients at different times, and on differentoccasions, viz. Tuscan,...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    the IVth Consulate of Tiberius, that is, to the VIIth of his Empire; which is eleven years before our Savior's Passion and five before Pilate was made Governor of Judea. See EUSEBIUS, LIX. c. 4. and 6. Rufinus. L. 1. c. 5, etc. The true and genuine Acts...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    in regard of Vowels, of which there are seven or eight kinds commonly used; tho the Latin Alphabet only takes notice of five; whereof two, viz. i and u, according to our English Pronunciation, are not properly Vowels, but Diphthongs.Add, that the...

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

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

    as simple ones, for more conveniency sake. All technical Apparatus, then, is to be here thrown by; and instead of giving five or six hard Words for one, the general Effect, and Meanings thereof are to be made use of. Thus, Calomel may be defined "a...

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

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

    ignited after; and even emits a Smoke, which ascends upwards.—That a kindled Charcoal is totally extinguished in about five Minutes, though in open Air it remains alive half an Hour; and that it goes out by degrees, beginning from the Top and the...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    The Arm, in this latter Acceptation, has only one large Bone, called the Humerus, or Shoulder-Bone. See HUMERUS. It has five sorts of Motions, which are effected by five Pair of Muscles; upwards, by the Deltoides, Supraspinatus, and Coracobrachialis;...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    The fourth year, the teeth next to these are changed, and no foal's teeth are left, but one on each side above and below. At five years, his foremost teeth are all changed; and the tusks on each side are complete:those which come in the places of the...

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

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

    all their Synagogues, have an ark, or Armory, called Aron; in Memory of the Ark of the Covenant. In this are preserved the five Books of Moses, written on Vellum, with Ink made on Purpose, etc."Tertullian calls this Ark, Armarium Judaicum; whence the...

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

  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    Quadrans, the fourth Part of the As, or three Ounces; Triens, the third Part of the As, which was four Ounces; Quincunx was five Ounces; Semis, half the As, that is six Ounces; Septunx, seven Ounces; Bes, two Thirds of the As, or eight Ounces; Dodrans,...

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

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

    of the volute. See IONIC and VOLUTE. The axis is otherwise call’d cathetus. See CATHETUS. Axis in Peritrochio, is one of the five mechanical powers, or simple machines; contrived chiefly for the raising of weights to a considerable height. See...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    in comparison to those that are expressly limited by statute; yet is there a means to prescribe against Real Actions, after five years, by a fine levied, or a recovery suffered. See PRESCRIPTION; see also FINE, RECOVERY, and LIMITATION OF ASSIZE. Action...

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    obtained. In the Ambrosian Office, there are six weeks marked for Advent; and St. Gregory, in his Sacramentary, allows five. The first week of Advent, in our way of reckoning, is that wherein it begins; but it was anciently otherwise, the week next...

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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    the Effects of Drunkenness.Accordingly, Plutarch relates, that Drusus’s Physician, a stout Drinker, took down at every Cup five Bitter Almonds, to allay the Heat and Fumes of the Wine.The expressed Oil of Bitter Almonds, is much used to soften and...

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

  • ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC

    speaks much of the Beauty and Copiousness of the Arabic. He assures us it has no less than a thousand Names for a Sword; five hundred for a Lion; two hundred for a Serpent; and eighty for Honey. See WORD, ALPHABET, etc. Arabic Figures, or Characters,...

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

  • ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT

    from meteorological Observations; as, the Semi-Sextile, containing the twelfth part of a Circle; and Quincunx, containing five twelfths.—Lastly, to the astrological Physicians we owe Octile, containing one eighth; and Trioctile, containing three...

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

  • ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY

    He adds, that the greatest Master Italy ever produc'd, was a Neapolitan, Fignatelli by Name; that La Broue rid under him five Years; Pluvinel nine; and S. Antoine many Years: and that these three Frenchmen fill'd France with French Masters; which till...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    whereof the Power to be expressed does consist; as, a^3, a^4, a^5; the last of which signifies as much as a multiplied five times into itself; and so of the rest. See POWER, ROOT, EXPONENT, etc. For the Symbols, Characters, &c. used in Algebra, with...

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

  • ABDOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDOMEN

    they are apt to sal),. and form those Tumors call'd Hernias. See PERITONÆUM, and HERNIA. It is cover'd and desended with five Pair of Muscles ; which not only defend the Viscera, but by their alternate Relaxations, and Contractions in Respiration,...

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

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

    Line of Chords. See CHORD. Suppose, e.g., the Altitude be required of a Tower AB, whose Top is visible at the Distance of five Miles: Then will DCB 20', from whose Secant 10000168, subtracting the whole Sine 10000000; the Remainder AB is 168, which will...

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

  • ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS

    of Alcaicks, consists of two Dactyls and two Trochees: As, Exilium impositura cymbae.There is another Kind, consisting of five Feet, of which the first is a Spondee or Iambic; the second an Iambic;the third a long Syllable; the fourth a Dactyl; the...

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