Cyclopædia

APPROACHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification/APPROACHES

for advancing or getting nearer to a Fortress, or Place besieged. See WORK, FORTIFICATION. Such are Trenches, Mines, Saps, Lodgments, Batteries, etc. See TRENCH, MINE, SAP, BATTERY, etc. Approaches, or Lines of Approach, are particularly used for...

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• Author: Ephraïm Chambers
• Category: Fortification

Fortificationhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification

or Parts thereof, Rampart, Bastion, Ditch, Counterscarp, Curtain, &c. Ravelin, Horn-work, Crown-work, &c. Approaches, Trench, Sap, Mine, &c. Line, Parallel, Circumvallation, &c. Battery, Attack, &c.

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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

or Parts thereof, Rampart, Bastion, Ditch, Counterscarp, Curtain, &c. Ravelin, Horn-work, Crown-work, &c. Approaches, Trench, Sap, Mine, &c. Line, Parallel, Circumvallation, &c. Battery, Attack, &c. 32 ASTRONOMY, or the Doctrine of the HEAVENS ; Their...

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• Author: Ephraïm Chambers
• Category: Introduction

ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

of the Plant, become of a vegetable Nature, and augment the Wood, Leaves, Fruit, etc. thereof. See VEGETATION, VEGETATION, SAP, WOOD, FRUIT, etc. So in Animal Bodies, we see the Food assimilated, or changed into an animal Substance, by Digestion,...

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• Author: Ephraïm Chambers
• Category: Unclassified

ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

that the same Principle accounts for the Appearance in them all. And to the same may probably be ascribed the Ascent of the Sap in Vegetables. See VEGETABLE and VEGETATION. Thus Sir I. Newton— If a large Pipe of Glass be filled with sifted Ashes well...

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• Author: Ephraïm Chambers
• Category: Unclassified