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  • ASBESTINE Paperhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASBESTINE%20Paper

    Paper or Cloth, is such as will burn in the Fire, be purified by it, and yet not consume. See INCOMBUSTIBLE. It is made of the Asbestos, or Lapis Amianthus; and is by some called Linum Vivum. See ASBESTOS. The Ancients are said to have made Napkins and...

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

  • HIERATIC Paperhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HIERATIC-Paper

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

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

    or Corresponding Angles are also equal. See SIMILAR, FIGURE, &c. To measure, or find the Quantity of an ANGLE. 1°. On Paper—Apply the Centre of a Protractor on the Vertex of the Angle O; (Tab. Surveying, fig. 29.) so as the Radius Op lie on one of the...

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

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

    its received Meaning, and consider it as indifferent to all things; any more than to annihilate the Characters on a piece of Paper, and consider it as a mere Blank. Accordingly, tho the great Author abovementioned explained over and over, in the...

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

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

    as Bread, Grapes, Must, Ale, Apples, Peas, Beef, etc. and from some Bodies by only burning them in Vacuo, particularly Paper, Hartshorn, etc. which yet, upon further Examination, was so far from being pure Air, that Animals enclosed in it, not only...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    &c. To find the Area of Fields, and other Inclosures; they first survey or take the Angles thereof, then plot them on Paper, and thus cast up their Contents in Acres, Roods, &c. after the usual manner of other plain Figures. See SURVEYING, PROTRACTING,...

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

  • ARCHIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIVE

    or Archives, a chamber wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences of a house or community are preserved. See RECORD, PAPER, etc. Thus, we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, etc. The archives of ancient Rome were in the...

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

  • APERTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERTURE

    TELESCOPE. A great deal depends on having a just Aperture. To find it experimentally; apply several Circles of black smutted Paper, each bigger than other, upon the Face of the Glass, from the Magnitude of a Pea to the whole Extent of the Glass; and...

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

  • ALLUMINORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUMINOR

    or Enluminor, or Illuminator, one who by Trade colours, or paints upon Paper or Parchment. See COLOUR, PAINTING, etc.

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

  • ALLOTTINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOTTING

    a Ship's Cargo is divided into several Parts, to be bought by divers Persons, whose Names are Wrote on as many Pieces of Paper, which are applied by an indifferent Person to the several Lots or Parcels; by which means, the Goods are divided without...

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