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  • 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

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

    a new kind of Enthusiasm, which he calls Supplicative, or Precatory; as he does divers others, as Musical Enthusiasm, Mechanical Enthusiasm, etc. To say no more, the Author last mentioned makes no scruple to make even "the ordinary Delights and Benefits...

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

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

    considering only its Property of Elasticity, which they account its essential and constituent Character; suppose it mechanically producible; and to be no other than the Matter of other Bodies altered, so as to become permanently elastic. Mr. Boyle gives...

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

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

    MECHANICS, including, the Structure and Contrivance of MACHINES, as Balance, Steelyard, Pully, Polyspast, &c. Wheel, Clock, Watch, Pendulum, Spring, Fusee. &c. Clepsydra, Coach, Rota Arisiotelica. Perpetual Motion &c.---- Mill, Press, Vice, Lath, Loom,...

    • Type: Category

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    Metaphysical, as Logics, pure Mathematics, etc. Philological, as Grammar, Criticism, etc. Mercantile, to which belong the Mechanical Arts and Manufactures. See each in its Place. Arts are more popularly divided into Liberal and Mechanical. The liberal...

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

  • MECHANICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/MECHANICS

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

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

    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 MECHANICAL POWER, etc....

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

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    etc. See each under its proper Article, AFFECTIONS OF MIND, are what we more usually call Passions. See PASSION. Mechanical Affections. See MECHANICAL AFFECTION.Affection is peculiarly used in Medicine, for a morbid or disorderly State of a Part.—Thus,...

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

  • ALGEBRAICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRAICAL

    See CURVE. These are also called Geometrical Lines. See GEOMETRY. Algebraical Curves stand contradistinguished to Mechanical or Transcendental ones. See MECHANICAL, and TRANSCENDENTAL. Algebraical Solution, See RESOLUTION. ALGEBRAICAL

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

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

    or Applications thereof, in Lever, Screw, &c. Pendulum, Projectile, &c. Operations directed hereby, as Gunnery, the Mechanical Arts, &c. enumerated hereafter. 13 ETHICS, or the Consederation of Natural Inclinations, Passions,Tastes, &c. Objects thereof,...

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

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

    ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one;...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    ALKACHEST, or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont,...

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

  • APPETITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/APPETITE

    of the thing in hand: Such is the Appetite or Desire of being happy. The second is a kind of Instinct whereby we are mechanically driven to consult our own Preservation. See INSTINCT, WILL, NATURAL INCLINATION, etc. Natural Appetite is subdivided into...

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

  • ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION

    so is the Tangent of the Distance from Aries or Libra, to the Tangent of Right Ascension. To find the Right Ascensions mechanically by the Globe. See GLOBE. The Arch of Right Ascension, is that Portion of the Equator intercepted between the beginning of...

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

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

    that when viewed by an Eye in the Point S, it appears to be the figural Face of a Man. An Image also may be distorted mechanically, by perforating it here and there with a Needle, and placing it against a Candle, or Lamp; and observing where the Rays...

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

  • ACCESSIBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSIBLE

    See FORTIFICATION and FORTIFIED PLACE. Accessible height, or distance, in Geometry, etc., is either that which may be mechanically measured by the application of a measure to it; or it is a height whose base and foot may be approached to; and a distance...

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

  • Staticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/statics

    or Applications thereof, in Lever, Screw, &c. Pendulum, Projectile, &c. Operations directed hereby, as Gunnery, the Mechanical Arts, &c. enumerated hereafter.

    • Type: Category

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    itself in the Progress of the Stream; and becomes insensible before arriving at the Journey's End. See FIRE.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of...

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

  • ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE

    The Conchoid, Cissoid, and Logarithmic Curve, though not reputed Geometrical Curves, have each also one Asymptote. See MECHANICAL, TRANSCENDENTAL, etc. Asymptote of the Conchoid —The Nature of Asymptotes will be easily conceived in the Instance of the...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    itself in the Progress of the Stream; and becomes insensible before arriving at the Journey's End. See Fire.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of...

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