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  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    or Asphaltum,a solid, brittle, black, inflammable, bituminous Substance, resembling Pitch, brought from India; whence it is also called Jewish Pitch. See PITCH. The Asphaltos belongs to the Class of Bitumens; and is the furthest matured and concocted of...

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

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

    artificial production in the World. BY means of this Communication, the first Impulse is brought back again from the highest pitch of abstracted Mathematics, to the first Objects of Sense; from Fluxions and Differences, the farthest Parts of the Path of...

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

  • ATTRAHENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRAHENTS

    of Fats, or Adipes; the Dungs of Pigeons and Cows; Bran, Yeast, Herring, the Sucking of a Leech, Melilot, Tobacco, Oil, Pitch, Rosin, Frankincense, etc. See each under its proper Articles, FAT, ADEPS, HERRING, OIL, PITCH, ROSIN, FRANKINCENSE, etc. In...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    by קדרוס, Cedrus, Cedar: St. Jerome, in the Vulgate, by Ligna Levigata, Planed Wood; and elsewhere, Ligna Bituminata, q. d. Pitched Woods. Kimchi translates it, Wood proper to float; Vatable, Light Wood, which swims in the Water without corrupting:...

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

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

    the Error is greater if the Angle be lesser, than if greater—To avoid the Inconveniences of both which, the Station is to be pitched at a moderate Distance; so as the Angle of Altitude, DEB, May be nearly half right.Again, if the Instrument were not...

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

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

    view several distant Objects; as the Moon, Stars, etc. That through which they appear the most distinctly, is to be pitched upon. M. Auzout affirms, that he found that the Apertures of Telescopes ought to be nearly in the subduplicate Ratio of their...

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

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    known in our Shops. The third is the most impure, the blackest, and the strongest.—It was formerly used by the Indians to pitch their Vessels withal: and is of little Use among us, excepting for Horses and Cattle; for which reason it is called...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    near the Atlantic; others, a Congelation formed in the Baltic Sea, and in some Fountains where it is found swimming like Pitch. Others suppose it a Bitumen, trickling into the Sea from subterraneous Sources; there concreted into this form, and thrown...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • APATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APATHY

    brought it exceedingly in vogue; thinking hereby to draw the Philosophers to Christianity, who aspired after such a sublime pitch of Virtue. Quietism is only Apathy disguised under the appearance of Devotion. See QUIETISM. APATHY

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

  • AMOMODUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMOMODUM

    The Commentators on Pliny, and Dioscorides, have never been able to agree upon the ancient Amomums; the generality of 'em pitch on Fruits different from this. Some will have the Rose of Jericho pass for it. F. Camelli is positive he has discovered the...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    mentions pieces of Ambergrease, on those coasts, weighing a full hundred Paludans, and Linfchoot speak of it as a sort of pitch, gradually working up from the bottom of the sea, and hardening in the sun. 5°, Others take it for a sea-mushroom, torn up...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    The ancient writers represent the Phoenicians as the firstamong whom architecture was carried to any tolerablepitch; and hence it was that Solomon had recourse therefor workmen to build his temple. Vossius, indeed,contends that only under-workmen were...

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