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

    thereof commence either Art or Science according to the Agency or Non-agency of the human Mind in respect thereof : It remains to take the Matter up a little higher ; and explain the Reason and Manner of this Operation, To consider Knowledge in its...

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

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

    though the thousandth part of the fire in open air will presently turn it into ashes.—Helmont adds, that the Charcoal remains all that while without any alteration of its black colour; but if the minute air is let in, it falls instantly into white...

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

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

    Quantity of Nitre; and the Mixture thrown at several times into an ignited Crucible: upon which, a Detonation ensues. What remains being kept in Fusion a quarter of an Hour, turns into a white Mass called Antimonium Diaphoreticum Nitratum, or...

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

  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    is the Complement to the Whole. And when more Ingredients than two are in the Composition, the Divisors are the several Remains of the least Value, taken from the other. The Dividends are the Remains left upon the Divisions, till none remain there;...

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

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

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    otherwise, it would be no more than a simple substitution of one thing for another. As then nothing of the substance remains, it must be Accidents. Hence, the Council of Constance condemns the following proportion, which is the second of Wiclif's, as...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    ANCIENT, etc. Thus we say, the Heroes of Antiquity, the Marks of Antiquity, etc.; Antiquity is also used in respect of the Remains, or Monuments of the Ancients. See MONUMENT, REMAINS, RUINS, etc. Thus we say, the Antiquities of Greece, the Jewish...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    N° 293.—The Cobalt being beaten to powder, and the light sandy part washed off, by a current of water, they put what remains in a furnace; the flame of which passing over the powder, takes along with it the Arsenical part, in form of a smoke; which...

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    whereof Copperas may be made; but being calcined it is fit for Allum.—As long as it continues in the Earth, or in Water, it remains a hard Stone.—Sometimes a Liquor will issue out of the Side of the Mine, which by the Heat of the Sun is turned into a...

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

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

    time, both to the actors and spectators. See DRAMA, TRAGEDY, and COMEDY. In the interval between the Acts, the theater remains empty and without any action visible to the spectators; though it is supposed all the while there is one passing out of sight....

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

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

    sustains no Reaction from them; being the only immutable Menstruum in Nature. 5°, "Tis incapable of Mixture, and therefore remains free from Fermentation and Putrefaction; coming off as pure from the Body it has dissolved, as when first put thereon;...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    extreme points hereof are also called poles. See POLE. The axis of the earth is a part of the axis of the world. It always remains parallel to itself, and at right angles with the equator. See PARALLELISM. Axis of a Planet, is a line drawn through the...

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

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

    in animals, and vice versa. The same author accounts for this double metamorphosis by supposing that the nitrous principle remains the same in both cases, and in both cases is attached to the same matrix, with this only difference, that the matrix...

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

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    are always either equal Arches or similar ones; and contrarily. It follows, therefore, that the Quantity of the Angle remains still the same, though the Legs be either produced or diminished. And thus similar Angles, and in similar Figures, the...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    put a Grain of a Solution of Silver in Aqua fortis, into a like Quantity of the Water in question: and if the Solution remains without either the Water’s turning milky, or the Silver precipitating, the Aqua fortis is pure. Aqua fortis is commonly held...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    Atlantis, according to him, was a large Island extended from the Canaries to the Azores; and these Islands are the Remains thereof not swallowed up by the Sea. The Atlantis took its Name from Atlas, Neptune’s eldest Son, who succeeded his Father in the...

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

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

    seem to evince the Existence of some Matter in the Air, much finer than the Air itself—There is an unknown something, which remains behind when the Air is taken away; as appears from certain Effects which we see produced in Vacuum.—Heat, Sir Isaac...

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

  • ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL

    are connected, in some manner or other, to the Body which furnishes them Food. Hence it follows, that a Foetus, while it remains in the Mother’s Womb, is a real Plant; as being connected by the Funiculus umbilicalis to the Placenta, and by the Placenta...

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

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    is wetted with spirit of wine, and the spirit burnt away; and this for several times till the pungent taste is gone: what remains is used much with the same intentions as the antihysticum Poterii, and is recommended by some as a sudorific. See...

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

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    purges violently both upwards and downwards. See ANTIMONY. By collecting all the Lotions, and evaporating two-thirds, what remains is a very acid Liquor, called Spirit of Philosophical Vitriol. ALGAROT

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