Cyclopædia
Assuming points is required, the following 113 results were found.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
thing similar only in some Circumstances: This is founded wholly on a Presumption, that the Agreement reaches to those Points upon which the former Effect depended. So that all physical Causation, in respect of us, is mere Presumption. Accordingly, the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE
See REFLECTION. Angle, in Optics, Visual or Optic Angle, is the Angle included between two Rays drawn from the two extreme points of an Object, to the Centre of the Pupil. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Optics, fig. 69.) comprehended between the Rays AB,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
or the efficient cause thereof; as if there were any proper powers in the centres, which in reality are only mathematical points; or, as if centres could attract." Lib. I. p. 5.—So, he "considers centripetal powers as attractions; though, physically...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT
be depressed; and is signified thus ('), see Grave. The Circumflex Accent is composed of both the Acute and the Grave; it points out a kind of undulation of the voice and is expressed thus (^). See CIRCUMFLEX. The word accent is also applied, somewhat...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AUTUMNAL POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMNAL%20POINT
POINT; is one of the equinoctial points; being that from which the sun begins to descend towards the North Pole. See EQUINOCTIAL POINT. AUTUMNAL POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE
ALTITUDE, Altitudo, in Geometry, the third Dimension of a Body; called also Height, or Depth. See HEIGHT; see also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ANAMORPHOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAMORPHOSIS
much the shorter, as the image is desired to be distorted. From each Point of Division draw right Lines to V, and join the Points A and E; as also the right Line AS. Through the Points d e f g, draw Lines parallel to AE; then will abcd be the Space that...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS
EARTH and ROTATION. See also PTOLEMAIC. This axis is represented by the line PQ, Tab. Astronomy, Fig. 52.—The two extreme points hereof, in the surface of the sphere, viz. P and Q, are called its poles. See POLE. Axis of the Earth, is a right line, upon...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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CHEVERONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/CHEVERON
versa. Per CHEVERON, or Party per CHEVERON, is when the Field is divided by only two single Lines, rising from the two Base Points, and meeting in a Point above, as the Cheveron does. CHEVERON
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry
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AMPLITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLITUDE
the East or West Point of the Compass; or, it is the Difference of the Rising or Setting of the Sun, from the East or West Points of the Compass. See COMPASS, RISING, SETTING, etc. It is found by observing the Sun at his rising or setting, by an...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APOGEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APOGEE
APOGEE, ἀπόγειος in Astronomy, that Point in the Orbit of the Sun, or a Planet, which is furthest distant from the Earth. See ORBIT and EARTH. The Apogee is a Point in the Heavens, at the Extreme of the Line of the Apsides; in which the Sun, or a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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CARDINAL Pointshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CARDINAL-Points
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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SOLSTITIAL Pointshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SOLSTITIAL-Points
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE
ANGLE, Ἀγκύλος, in Geometry, the Aperture or mutual Inclination of two Lines, which meet, and form an Angle in their Point of Intersection. See LINE. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Geometry, Fig. 91.) formed by the Lines AB, and AC, meeting in the Point...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
thereof, Style, Allegory, Type, Parable, Mystical, &c. Text, Versim, Septuagint, Vulgate, &c. Paraphrase, Targum, &c. Points, Quotations, &c. Matter thereof; Declarations, of Incarnation, Passion, Crucifixion, Miracle, &c. Inunctions, as Worship,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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DOUBLE Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DOUBLE-Point
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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NOMBRIL Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NOMBRIL-Point
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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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