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

    Jesuits de Trevoux, Daviler, Chauvel, Savary, Chauvin, Harris, Wolfius, and many more have done, has been subservient to my Purposes. To say nothing of a numerous Class of particular Dictionaries which contributed their Share; Lexicons on almost every...

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

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

    gives into the Opinion of the Fathers; noting, that the only Hands employed in it were Noah and his three Sons. To this Purpose he alleges the Instance of Archias of Corinth, who, with the Help of 300 Workmen, built Hiero’s Great Ship in one Year. Add,...

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

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

    the Substance of the Dispute under the Article Metal. Ashes,are of considerable Use in making Lixiviums, or Lyes, for the Purposes of Medicine, Bleaching, Sugar-Works, etc. See LIXIVIUM; see also BARILLA, etc. The Ancientspreserved the Ashes of their...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    Salt, says that Father, in a letter to the Count de Toulouse, is made in Egypt, in a sort of ovens contrived for the purpose, the tops whereof are perforated with several longitudinal clefts; and on these clefts are laid several long-necked glass...

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

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

    proportions which the different kinds of buildings rendered necessary, that we might have some proper for every purpose, according to the bulk, strength, delicacy, richness, or simplicity required. Hence arose five orders or manners of building, all...

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

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

    of the Vessel. But how little need there is of an Antiperistasis in this Experiment, appears hence, that Mr. Boyle has purposely made it with good success, in a place where there neither was, nor ever probably had been, a Fire. See FREEZE and FREEZING....

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    ALCORAN, the Mahometan Gospel; or the Revelations, Prophecies, &c. of the Impostor Mahomet. See MAHOMETANISM. The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of...

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

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

    of Monsters. See Monster.—At other Times she is subdued and fashioned by human Industry, and made to serve the several Purposes of Mankind. This last is what we call Art; in which Sense, Art stands opposed to Nature. See NATURE, ARTIFICIAL, &c. Hence,...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    of the voice but also to distinguish the sections, periods, and members of periods in a discourse, and to answer the same purposes with the points in other languages. See POINT. Their accents are divided into emperors, kings, dukes, etc., each bearing a...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    Pretense was to establish the new Reign of Jesus Christ on Earth by force of Arms, condemning all use of Arms for other Purposes. Calvin wrote a Treatise against the Anabaptists, still extant in his Opuscula. What they chiefly supported their great...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    This Calcination is in great use among Goldsmiths, and Gilders, who by this means render Gold fluid and ductile for their Purposes—Such Mixture or Amalgama being laid on any other Metal, for instance, Copper; and this afterwards placed on the Fire to...

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

  • ANTIMENSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIMENSIA

    be removed: That Church has for many Ages made use of certain consecrated Stuffs, or Linens called Antimensia, to serve the purposes thereof. ANTIMENSIA

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

  • ALCALIZATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCALIZATION

    a Liquor with an alkaline Salt. See ALKALY.This is done either to make it a better Dissolvent, for some particular Purposes; or to load the Phlegm, so as it may not rise in Distillation, whereby the spirituous Parts may go over more pure. See...

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

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

    these latter, being impelled by the matter of light, will enter the cavities of the former, which are framed as it were on purpose for their reception. And that they will do it the more readily, if the motion of the matter of light wherewith they are...

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

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

    poets were unacquainted with this division of a play into Acts; though their Episodes or Choruses served almost the same purpose. See EPISODE and CHORUS. It is true, they considered their pieces as consisting of certain parts or divisions, which they...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    The word is formed of the Greek ἀρχή, beginnings; whenceἄρχων, princeps, summus. In English we usually, though to very ill purpose; the words wherewith joined, sounding much harsher on that score than would do were it preserved entire, as it is in most...

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    were preserved in the Temple of Mars; and were committed to the Care of twelve Priests or Salii, instituted for that purpose. See SALII. They were carried every Year, in the Month of March, in procession around Rome; and the 30th Day of that Month, were...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    Courts; and that they were called Assizes, because anciently tried at special Courts of Assize, set and appointed for that Purpose.—Though, of later Days, they are dispatched at the general sizes, along with the Commissions of Oyer and Terminer. This...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    the Cornea, which it causes to protuberate a little; and is supposed to be furnished by certain Ducts provided for the purpose. See CORNEA. Anatomists are divided about the Origin and Conveyance of this Humour. It's certain, the Source must be pretty...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    and illustrate, but not to prove anything; yet is a great deal of our philosophizing no better founded. See SIMILARITY, PURPOSE, REASONING, etc. In Matters of Language, we say, New Words are formed by Analogia, i.e., new Names are given to new Things,...

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