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  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    regard to their Situation in respect of each other, Angles are divided into Contiguous, Adjacent, Vertical, Alternate, and Opposite. Contiguous ANGLES, are such as have the same Vertex, and one Leg common to both. Such are FGH, and HGI, fig. 94. See...

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

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

    be. I may even add, that the making a Difference between the two Sciences, and rendering them branches independent of, and opposite to each other, has proved most pernicious to both; and been the great Source both of Irreligion and Ignorance, which will...

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

  • ALTERNATE Angleshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTERNATE%20Angles

    Angles, in Geometry, are the internal Angles made by a Line cutting two Parallels, and lying on the opposite Sides of the cutting Line; the one below the first Parallel, and the other above the second. See ANGLE. Thus, a and b, and x and y, (Tab....

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    a right Angle, 'tis easy to find the Line AC; since, in the Triangle ACD, we have two Angles, viz. C and D, and a side opposite to one of them, CD, to find the Side opposite to the other: for which we have this Canon.—As the Sine of the Angle A, is to...

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

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

    effect of something that went before it, and the cause of what follows. In the causes of an action, one may observe two opposite designs; the first, and principal, is that of the hero: The second comprehends all their designs, who oppose the pretensions...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator, the one...

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

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

    as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c. Effects hereof, Knowledge, Science, Art, Experience, &c. Conditions, Probability, Certainty,...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    or Physical Agents are those directly determined by nature to produce one type of effect, incapable of producing the opposite. For instance, fire only heats and does not also cool. Free or Voluntary Agents can perform any action or its opposite, acting...

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

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

    cylinder is formed. See CYLINDER. Though, both in right and oblique cylinders, the right line joining the centres of the opposite bases, is also called the axis of the cylinder. Axis of a Cone is the right line or side upon which the right angled...

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

  • APOGEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APOGEE

    is at the greatest Distance that it can be at, from the Earth, in its whole Revolution. See APSIS, EARTH, PLANET, etc. The opposite Point hereto, is called the Perigee. See PERIGEE. The ancient Astronomers, regarding the Earth as the Centre of the...

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

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

    EVAPORATION, etc. For the Phenomena of magnetical and electrical Attraction, see Magnetism and Electricity. The Power opposite to Attraction is called Repulsion; which is also argued to have some Place in natural Things. See REPULSION. ATTRACTION, or...

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

  • ANTISCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTISCI

    the People who inhabit on different sides of the Equator; and who, of consequence, at Noon, have their Shadows projected opposite ways. See SHADOW. The People of the North are Antisci to those of the South; the one projecting their Shadows, at Noon,...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    in Philosophy, the Action of two opposite Qualities, one whereof, by its Opposition excites and heightens the Force of the other. See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand round: q.d....

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

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

    together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding — By Composition we consider those Things together, which in reality are not join'd together in...

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

  • ANTAGONIST MUSCLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ANTAGONIST%20MUSCLES

    MUSCLES, in Anatomy, are those which have opposite Functions. See MUSCLE. Such are the Flexor and Extensor of any Limb, the one whereof contracts it, and the other stretches it out. See FLEXOR and EXTENSOR. We have some solitary Muscles, without any...

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

  • ANTARCTIC Circlehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC%20Circle

    to the Equator, at the distance of 23 deg. 30 min. from the South Pole. See CIRCLE. It takes its Name from its being opposite to another Circle, parallel likewise to the Equator, and at the same distance from the North Pole; called the Arctic Circle....

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

  • ARCTICK CIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCTICK%20CIRCLE

    to the equator, and 23° 30’ distant from the North Pole; from whence its name. See CIRCLE and SPHERE. This, and its opposite, the Antarctic, are called the two polar circles; and may be conceived to be described by themotion of the poles of the...

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

  • ANTIADIAPHORISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIADIAPHORISTS

    Antiadiaphorista, those opposite to the Adiaphorists. See ADIAPHORIST. This Name was given, in the XVIth Century, to the rigid Lutherans, who disavowed the Episcopal Jurisdiction, and many of the Church Ceremonies, retained by the Moderate Lutherans....

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

  • ANTICHTHONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTICHTHONES

    in Geography, are those People who inhabit Countries opposite to each other. The Word is Compounded of ἀντί, contra, and γῆ, Terra. The Term Antichthones is now used in the same Sense with Antipodes; but the Ancients used it in a different one. They...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    as they suppose, irregular manner: as in the case of horizontal eclipses; where, though the sun and moon are diametrically opposite, yet they appear as if above the horizon, by reason of the refraction. See ECLIPSE, REFRACTION, etc. ADULTERY

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