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

    Powers, Properties, etc. of the several Letters, considered as so many Sounds, artfully combined. In effect, there is some Physics, or Dimension, and some Harmony, or Numbers in all Diction; much more in that of Oratory: And Music itself has no Charm in...

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

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

    Mover. See ACTION and REACTION. The Word is compounded of ad, to; and traho, I draw. ATTRACTION, or ATTRACTIVE FORCES in Physics, is a natural Power inherent in certain Bodies, whereby they act on other distant Bodies, and draw them towards themselves....

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

  • Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics

    PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or Constitution, in Element, Atom, Particle, Body. Chaos, World, Universe, Space, Vacuum, &c. Properties of Body, as...

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  • PHYSICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHYSICAL

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

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

    including under it the Theory of the Universe, and the primary Laws of Nature: In which Sense it rather seems a Branch of Physics than of Mathematics. See PHYSICS, SYSTEM, NATURE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star; and νόμος, Law;...

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

  • PHYSIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PHYSIC

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    Heads; the first, relating to Poetry and Rhetoric; the second, to Logics; the third, to Ethics and Politics; the fourth, to Physics; and the fifth, to Metaphysics. In all which, as there are many Things excellent and invaluable, particularly what...

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

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

    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...

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

  • ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM

    ATOM, ἄτομος, in Philosophy, a Corpuscle; or a Part or Particle of Matter so minute as to be indivisible. See CORPUSCLE. The Word is Greek, ἄτομος; formed of the privative ἀ, and τέμνω, I cut, I divide. Atoms are properly the minima naturae, the last or...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    ABSTRACT, ABSTRACTUM, in Philosophy, that which Mind called Abstractum. See ABSTRACTION. An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more...

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

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

    Agents, in Physics, refers to something by which an action is done or effected; or which has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with efficient, and...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    KNOWLEDGE, etc. AXIOM is also an established principle in some art or science. See PRINCIPLE, etc. Thus, it is an axiom in physics, that nature discovers herself most in the smallest subjects; that nature does nothing in vain; that effects are...

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

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

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    ART, Ars, is defined by the Schoolmen, a habit of the mind operative or effective according to right reason; or, somewhat more intelligibly, a habit of the mind prescribing rules for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes...

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

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

    AETHER, is usually understood of a thin, subtle Matter, or Medium, much finer and rarer than Air; which commencing from the Limits of our Atmosphere, possesses the whole heavenly Space. See HEAVEN, WORLD, etc. The Word is Greek, αιθηρ, supposed to be...

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

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

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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

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

    ASCENT OF FLUIDS,is particularly understood of their rising above their own Level between the Surfaces of nearly contiguous Bodies, or in slender capillary Glass Tubes, or in Vessels filled with Sand, Ashes, or the like porous Substance, See FLUID. This...

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

  • ALIMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALIMENT

    ALIMENT, Alimentum, Food, in a physical Sense, is whatever may be dissolved and turned into Chyle, by the Liquor of the Stomach, or the Natural Heat; so as to be afterwards converted into Blood, for augmenting the Body, or repairing the continual...

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

  • AMBIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBIENT

    AMBIENT, a Term applied to things round about.Thus, the Bodies situated around any other Body, are called the Ambient, and often the Circum-Ambient Bodies.And the whole Body of Air, because it encompasses all things on the Face of the Earth, is often by...

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

  • ARBITRARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBITRARY

    ARBITRARY, something left to the choice and determination of men; not fixed and settled by any positive law or injunction. See LAW, LIBERTY, etc. The punishment for such a crime is arbitrary—arbitrary fines or mulcts are usually called amercements. See...

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