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

    the other, i. e. from the first or simplest Complication of Ideas appropriated to the Art, which we call the Elements or Principles thereof; to the most complex or general one, the Name or Term that denotes the whole Art. NOR is the Pursuit dropt here:...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World, Sir Isaac Newton shows, must be always decreasing, in virtue of the Vis...

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

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

    And hence arise divers kinds of attractions; as, gravity, magnetism, electricity, etc. which are so many different principles, acting by different laws; and only agreeing in this, that we do not see any physical causes thereof; but that, as to our...

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

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

    de la Boe, followed by the Tribe of vulgar Chemists, strenuously assert Sal Alkaly and Acid to be 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;...

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

  • ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS

    in Logick, a Method of applying the Rules of Reasoning, to resolve a Discourse into its Principles; in order to a Discovery of its Truth, or Falsehood. See PRINCIPLE. Or, Analysis is an Examination of some Discourse, Proposition, or other Matter, by...

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

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

    of the Cartesians, Newtonians, and other Corpuscularians. See SCHOOL, NEWTONIAN, CARTESIAN, CORPUSCULARIAN, etc. THE PRINCIPLES OF ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY, the Learned agree, are chiefly laid down in his four books de Caelo; his 8 Books of Physics,...

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

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

    fictitious Machines were thrown out; and the Constitution of the Heavens reduced to more simple, natural, and certain Principles. See COPERNICAN. See also System, SUN, EARTH; The modern Astronomy is deliver'd in Copernicus’s six Books of Celestial...

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

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

    at the Tropic: where, with the Force of a chymical Agent, he resolves the superficial Parts of the Earth into their Principles, Water, Oil, Salt, &c. which are all swept into the Atmosphere.And hence we conceive the Nature of Meteors, which are either...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    excepted. The Changes it induces proceed thus: 1°, The Subject exposed to its Operation, is converted into its three Principles, Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury; afterwards, into Salt alone; which then becomes volatile; and at length is wholly turned into...

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

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

    the Table, and keep themselves from being swallowed up by the dry Wood: but this we can account for on more intelligible Principles, viz. the Power of Attraction, and Repulsion. See ATTRACTION and REPULSION. As to the Antiperistasis of Cold and Heat,...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    or finds new in the attempt. The fifth puts an end to all by a discovery. Be this as it will, it is certain, on the principles of that great master of the drama, Aristotle, we may have a just and regular play, though only divided into three Acts. The...

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

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

    to the Class of Bitumens; and is the furthest matured and concocted of the whole Tribe; but consists of the same simple Principles as the rest. See BITUMEN and SULPHUR. It is found swimming on the Surface of the Lacus Asphaltites, or Dead Sea, where...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    reckon'd a Sense; From its Affinity to the other Senses, in this, that the Pleasure does not arise from any Knowledge of Principles, Proportions, Causes, Uses, &c. but strikes at first View; as also in this, that the Ideas of Beauty, like other sensible...

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

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

    most general. This is the Analytic Method. The Synthetic consists in assuming the Causes discovered, and established as Principles; and by them explaining the Phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. See SYNTHESIS. ANALYTIC

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

  • ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL

    the Distillation of Turpentine, is called the Ethereal Oil of Turpentine. See TURPENTINE. Some Chemists distinguish two Principles in Urine; the one a volatile urinous Salt, resembling Spirit of Nitre; the other an Ethereal Oil, or Sulphur; partaking of...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    part, as the Base or broadest part is the foulest. Antimony is supposed by many of the Chemists to contain the seminal Principles of all kinds of Bodies; and accordingly, the Character whereby it is denoted in their Writings is the same with the...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS

    their Schemes and Figures. And hence the Abacus Pythagoricus, a Table of Numbers, contriv'dsor the ready learning of the Principles of Arithmetic ; denominated from its Inventor Pythagoras. Hence also, from an Agreement in point of Use, the Karnes...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    Burning, Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise, all the other Principles being gone off in the Smoke. See Smoke, Fuel, Fixed, Salt, etc. The Chemistsfrequently call the Ashes of a Body its Calx....

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

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

    See Rule, Precept, Experiment, etc. In this Sense, art is opposed to Science, which is a Collection of speculative Principles and Conclusions. See Science. The Nature and Origin of Art, and its Distinction from Science, will be further considered in the...

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

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

    Class of Sulphurs, or Bitumens.Others, on the contrary, argue it of the Vegetable Kind, from its resolving into the same Principles with Vegetables;viz. Water, Spirit, Salt, and Oil.—Boerhaave resembles it to Camphire, which is a concreted Oil of the...

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