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

    a great Number of Authors of all Kinds, either overlook'd by former Dictionarists, or not then extant, and a Multitude of Improvements in the several Parts, especially of Natural Knowledge, made in these last Years. I should produce Instances hereof ;...

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

  • APPROVEMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVEMENTUM

    Approvementum, or Approvement, is sometimes used in ancient Writers for Improvement. See IMPROVEMENT. Thus, to Approve, approbare, is to make the best benefit of a thing by increasing the Rent, etc. In some ancient Statutes, Bailiffs of Lords in their...

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

  • Agriculturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/agriculture

    AGRICULTURE, or the Tillage and Improvement of SOILS, Clay, Sand, Earth, &c. By the Operations of Ploughing, Fallowing, burning, Sembradore, Sowing, Manuring, &c. To produce, Com, Hemp, Flax, Liquorice, Saffron, &c. For Malt, Bread, &c. Granary,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Antimony, Orpiment, Asphaltus, Bismuth, Marcasite, Bole, Cinnabar, Mars, Venus, &c. 41 AGRICULTURE, or the Tillage and Improvement of SOILS, Clay, Sand, Earth, &c. By the Operations of Ploughing, Fallowing, burning, Sembradore, Sowing, Manuring, &c. To...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    his Ring.—And Gassendi, Horrocks, Bullialdus, Ward, Riccioli, Cassini, etc. each contributed very considerably to the improvement of Astronomy. See SATURN, RING, ECLIPSE, MICROMETER, etc. The immortal Newton first demonstrated from physical...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    opening. M. Sabouin, Surgeon of Geneva, is recorded in the History of the Royal Academy of Sciences, A. 1702, for an Improvement in the Method of Amputation, proposed to that Academy.—The whole Secret consists in saving a piece of Flesh and Skin, a...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    ACCENT, Accentus, a certain inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern...

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

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

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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