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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

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

    of the Deity. See PYTHAGOREAN. From Egypt Arithmetic was transmitted to the Greeks, who handed it forward, with great Improvements, which it had received by the Computations of their Astronomers, to the Romans; from whom it came to us. The ancient...

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

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

    ALGEBRA, a Method of resolving Problems by means of Equations. See PROBLEM, and EQUATION. Some Authors define Algebra the Art of solving all Problems capable of being solved: But this is rather the Idea of Analysis, or the Analytic Art. See ANALYSIS.The...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    which furnishes certain Rules to perform or arrive at the End proposed. See ANALYTIC. This Method, under its present Improvements, must be allowed the Apex or Height of all human Learning; being the great Instrument or means whereby so many surprising...

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

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

    them by Abstraction. Essay on Human Understanding, L. III. c. 3. Such is the Doctrine of Abstract Ideas, under the Improvements of that excellent Author. In effect, 'tis the standing Opinion, that the Mind has such a Power or Faculty of framing Abstract...

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    particularly what relates to Poetry, Rhetoric, and the Passions; so there are others, in the other Parts, which the Improvements of later Ages have taught us to explode and despise. —See ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY. Aristotelian Philosophy, the Philosophy...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for which we are indebted to Geometrical Reasoning. The sum of what our late Writers on the subject have shown,...

    • 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

  • 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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    SIR, THE ARTS and SCIENCES humbly crave Audience of Your Majesty. The near Concern they have in the Happiness of a People, assures 'em of the favourable Attention of a Prince who makes that Happiness his own. 'Tis by These, the Parsimony of Nature is...

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

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

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

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

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • 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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    ARSENIC, Arsenicum, in natural history, a ponderous mineral substance, extremely caustic or corrosive, to the degree of a violent poison. See FOSSIL, CORROSIVE, etc. The word is compounded of the Greek ἀρσεν, man, and νικᾶ, I overcome, kill; alluding to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History
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