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

    etc. Axes of the Horizon, the Equator, Ecliptic, Zodiac, etc. are right lines drawn through the centres of those circles perpendicularly to the planes thereof. See CIRCLE. See also HORIZON, ECLIPTIC, EQUATOR, etc. See also PLANE, etc. Axis, in...

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

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

    with the right Line TV, what is called, by some Writers, the Altitude of the Luminary. Altitude, in Cosmography, is the perpendicular Height of a Body, or Object; or its Distance from the Horizon, upwards. See HEIGHT; see also HORIZON. Altitudes are...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    27) See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE. The base or line that joins the two extremes of the arch is called the chord; and the perpendicular raised in the middle of that line,the size of the arch. See CHORD and SINE. All angles are measured by arches—to know...

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

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

    Gravitation, or Pressure, may be inferred to be the same as in other Fluids; consequently, its Pressure must be as its perpendicular Altitude. See FLUID.This is also confirmed by Experiment.—For, removing the Torricellian Tube to a more elevated Place,...

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

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

    divide it into the same Number of equal Parts, as the Side of the Prototype AB; and in E, the middle thereof, erect the Perpendicular EV, so much the longer; and draw VS perpendicular to EV, so much the shorter, as the image is desired to be distorted....

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

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

    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 without breaking or running off; and another Plane inclined to the former, so as to...

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

  • Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry

    GEOMETRY,or the Doctrine of EXTENDED, or Continuous QUANTITY, viz. l°, Lines, Right, Perpendicular, Parallel, Oblique, &c. Angles, Acute, Scalenous, Vertical, Opposite, &c. z°, Figures, or Surfaces, Triangle, Square, Parallelogram, Trapezium, Polygon,...

    • Type: Category

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

    &c. Pislil, Farina, Stamina, &c. Operations thereof, as Vegetation, Germination, Circulation, &c. Circumstances, as Perpendicularity, Parallelism, Fertility, &c. Productions, as Honey, Wax, Balm, Sugar, Manna, &c. Cum, Restn, Camphor, &c. Indigo, Opium,...

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

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

    Quantity, Angles are again divided into Right, Acute, Obtuse, and Oblique. Right ANGLE, is that formed by a Line falling perpendicularly on another; or that which subtends an Arch of 90 Degrees—Such is the Angle KLM, Fig. 93. See PERPENDICULAR, &c. The...

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

  • ANOMALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ANOMALY

    Arch AI; that Area may represent the mean Anomaly. Or thus: The Area SK A found by drawing through the Planet’s place, perpendicular to the Line of the Apsides PA, till it cuts the Circle DA, and drawing the Line SK, may represent the mean Anomaly; for...

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

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

    Lines drawn from the Pole C, are equal to each other: Then will the Line BD be an Asymptote of the Curve: Because the Perpendicular MI, etc. is shorter than MO, and MR than MQ, etc. so that the two Lines continually approach; yet the Points M, etc. and...

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

  • ASHLERINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHLERING

    Builders, Quartering to tack to, in Garrets, about 2.5, or 3 Foot high, perpendicular to the Floor, up to the Underside of the Rafters. See Building, Roof, Covering, etc.

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

  • ALTIMETRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTIMETRY

    See ALTITUDE.Altimetria makes the first Part of Geometry; including the Doctrine and Practice of measuring both perpendicular and oblique Lines; whether in respect of Height, or Depth. See GEOMETRY; see also HEIGHT, etc.The Word is compounded of the...

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

  • ACCIDENTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENTAL

    Accidental point, in perspective, is a point in the horizontal line where lines parallel to one another, though not perpendicular to the picture or representation, meet. See POINT, PERSPECTIVE, etc. Accidental dignities and debilities, in astrology, are...

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

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

    the greater Load of Atmosphere is of consequence incumbent on it: and the Pressure of a Fluid is in proportion to the perpendicular Altitude of the Column thereof —Add, that the whole Body of the Fluid pressing in innumerable right Lines, which all meet...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Duct makes with the Trunk of the Artery. For all Fluids press the Sides of the containing Vessels in a Direction perpendicular to its Sides; which is evident in the Pulsation of the Arteries, it being to that Pressure that the Pulsation is owing. It is...

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