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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON

    feast flew out of his hands, and taking a round, returned thither again. Apel. c. 10. §, 1Among automata are reckoned all mechanical engines which go by springs, weights, etc. included within them; such are clocks, watches, etc. See SPRING, PENDULUM,...

    • 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

  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and tergo, I wipe.---— Whence, also, Abtersion is sometimes used for the mechanical Act of Tersion, or Wiping. See TERSION. ABSTERGEANS

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