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Assuming phenomena is required, the following 17 results were found.

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

    be owing to more sensible and obvious Causes; particularly the Pressure of the Air. See AIR and PRESSURE. To this are the Phenomena of Inspiration, Smoking, Sucking, Cupping-Glasses, Pumps, Vapours, Exhalations, etc. See RESPIRATION, SUCTION, PUMP,...

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

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

    accommodated to the present State of Things. HENCE arise two Kinds of Knowledge; the one absolute, including the standing Phenomena; the other relative, or occasional, including what is done, or passes, with regard to them. The former is in some Sense...

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

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

    is one of the most considerable and universal Agents in all Nature; being concerned in the Production of most of the Phenomena relating to our World.—Its Properties and Effects, including a great Part of the Researches and Discoveries of the modern...

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

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    and a larger Proportion of the aqueous Matter, when in form of an acid Spirit. — And hence we account for two important Phenomena; 1°, That the acid Spirits of Animal and Fossil Salts are always weaker, and less penetrating, as well as lighter in...

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

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

    than Air, but exceedingly more elastic, and active: In Virtue of which Properties, he shows, that a great part of the Phenomena of Nature may be produced by it—To the Weight, e.g. of this Medium, he attributes Gravitation, or the Weight of all other...

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

  • APPEARANCEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APPEARANCES

    in Astronomy, etc., are more usually called Phenomena. See PHENOMENA. In Optics, we use the Term Direct Appearance, for the View or Sight of an Object by direct Rays; without either Refraction or Reflection. See DIRECT and RAY. See also OPTICS, VISION,...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods, Eclipses, etc. See...

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

  • ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC

    admits of; and may be esteemed so much the stronger, as the Induction is more general. And if no Exception occur from Phenomena, the Conclusion may be pronounced generally. By this way of Analysis, we may proceed from Compounds to Ingredients; and from...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    the only universal Principles of all Bodies; and by means hereof, account for the Qualities of Bodies, and the rest of the Phenomena of Nature; particularly those in the Animal Oeconomy. In a word, Alkaly and Acid are substituted in the stead of Matter,...

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

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

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

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

    Opinion claims some Reverence. By the Help of these we are furnished with a vast Number of precarious Solutions of great Phenomena; and without them we must leave a great Chasm in the philosophical History of Animal Bodies. They are supposed to be...

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

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

    whereof, is the Line of the Fluid, the other being a Line drawn along the touching Sides. The physical Causein all these Phenomena, is the same Power of Attraction. See ATTRACTION. ASCENT OF FLUIDS

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    by the word Archaeus, mean a certain universal spirit, diffused throughout the whole creation, the active cause of all the phenomena in nature. See SPIRIT, NATURE, etc. Others, instead of Archaeus, choose to call it the anima mundi; and others the vital...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    be forced out with very great Noise and Violence; there will be by Fits, and not with a constant and uniform Blast. These Phenomena, the Reader will be easily enabled to solve, from what is shown under the Articles, Air, Water, Rarefaction, etc. The Air...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    chiefly keeps, in his two Volumes of Astrology; wherein he pretends, that Inundations may be foretold, and an Infinity of Phenomena explained from the Contemplation of the Stars.—Accordingly, he endeavors to account for the Diversity of Seasons, from...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    be forced out with very great Noise and Violence; there will be by Fits, and not with a constant and uniform Blast. These Phenomena, the Reader will be easily enabled to solve, from what is shown under the Articles, Air, Water, Rarefaction, etc. The Air...

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

  • ANGULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGULAR

    at the same time. See MOTION, SPINNING, etc. Such is the Motion of the Wheel of a Coach, or other Vehicle. See WHEEL. The Phenomena, &c. of such Motion, see accounted for under the Article ROTATIO ARISTOTELICA. Angular Motion, in Astronomy, is the...

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