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

    The axis of the ellipse is determinate—The parabola has only one axis; the ellipse and hyperbola two. See CURVE. AXIS IN OPTICKS—Optick Axis, or Visual Axis, is a ray passing through the centre of the eye; or it is that ray which proceeding out of the...

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

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

    without Fermentation; and such bodies being at length rarified by such Heat or Fermentation, become true permanent Air.' Opticks— 'Thus, the same Author adds, 'Gunpowder generates Air by Explosion.' ibid. We have here, therefore, not only the materials...

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

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

    perish, there being otherwise a great decrease or diminution thereof, which is only supplied by these active principles.” Opticks, p. 373. We need not say how unjust it is in the generality of foreign philosophers, to declare against a principle which...

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

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    Newton, sometimes, a Subtle Spirit, as in the Close of his Principia and sometimes a Subtle or Ethereal Medium; as in his Opticks. The Truth is, there are abundance of Considerations, which seem to evince the Existence of some Matter in the Air, much...

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

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    Glands in the Bodies of Animals, according to their several Natures and Dispositions, imbibe various Juices from the Blood. Opticks, p. 367. If a Drop of Oil, Water, or other Fluid, be laid on a Glass Plane perpendicular to the Horizon, so as to stand...

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

  • ANACLATICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANACLATICKS

    that Part of Opticks which considers refracted Light. See REFRACTION. Anaclatics are the same with what we more usually call Dioptrics. See DIOPTRICS. ANACLATICKS

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