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  • INSECTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/INSECTS

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    very well formed; and even Hebrew, and Arabic Characters.—Within some pieces of Amber, have likewise been found Leaves, Insects, etc. included;which seems to indicate either that the Amber was originally in a fluid State; or that having been exposed to...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    bury themselves under Water, &c. See MIGRATION, PASSAGE, &c. In effect, several Species of Birds, the whole Tribe almost of Insects, and many among the other Tribes, are able to subsist all Winter, not only without Food, but many of 'em without...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    are ordinarily divided into terrestrial, aquatic, volatile, amphibious, Insects, etc. Terrestrial Animals are either Quadrupeds or Reptiles. Quadrupeds have either the Feet cloven, as the Bullock; or entire, as the Horse; or divided into several Toes or...

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

  • AURELIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURELIA

    a Term used by natural Historians for the first apparent Change of the Eruca, or Maggot of any Species of Insect. See INSECT. Aurelia is the same with what other Writers call Nymphaea. See NYMPHA. AURELIA

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    is the Cause of most of our fantastic Aversions to the Figures of divers Animals, &c. Thus Serpents of all Kinds, and many Insects, really beautiful enough are beheld with Avetsion by many People, who have got some accidental Ideas associated to them....

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

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

    frames the Idea of Animal ; which abstract s or participates not only of all Men, but all Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects. The constituent Parts of such Abstract Idea of Animal, are Body, Life, Sense, and spontaneous Motion. — By Body, is meant, Body...

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

  • ANIMALCULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALCULE

    of Animal; and expresses such a minute Creature as is scarce discernible by the naked Eye. Such are those numerous Insects which crowd the Water in the Summer Months; changing it sometimes of a deep, or pale red, sometimes a yellow, etc. They seem to be...

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

  • Zoologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology

    in Egg, Embryo, Fœtus, Generation, Conception, Gestation, Hatching, Migration, &c. Their Kinds, as Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon, Salamander,...

    • Type: Category

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

    in Egg, Embryo, Fœtus, Generation, Conception, Gestation, Hatching, Migration, &c. Their Kinds, as Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon, Salamander,...

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