Cyclopædia
Assuming southern is required, the following 16 results were found.
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AUSTRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTRAL
australis, the same with southern. See SOUTH and SOUTHERN. Thus, austral signs, are the six last signs of the zodiac; so called, because they are on the south-side of the equinoctial. The word is derived from auster, the south-wind. See AUSTER. AUSTRAL
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AMPLITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLITUDE
and the true Point of West in the Equinoctial. See WEST. The Eastern and Western Amplitude, are also called Northern, and Southern, when in the Northern and Southern side of the Horizon. The Complement of the Eastern or Western Amplitude to a Quadrant,...
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
a substance much like the verdigris produced by vinegar. See IRON, COPPER, VERDIGRIS, &c. Mr. Boyle relates, that in the Southern English Colonies, the great guns cast so fast, that after a few years lying in the Air, large cakes of Crocus Martis may be...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALTARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALTAR
Ara, in Astronomy, one of the Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere; not visible in our Climate. See STAR, and CONSTELLATION. ALTAR
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APUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APUS
in Astronomy, the Bird of Paradise; one of the Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, not visible in our Latitude. See CONSTELLATION. APUS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ARGO
or Navis, in astronomy, is a constellation of fixed stars, in the Southern Hemisphere. See STAR and CONSTELLATION. The stars in the constellation Argo, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, are 8; in Tycho’s 11; in the Britannic Catalogue 25;the longitudes,...
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ASPIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIC
of Aspic, vulgarly called Oil of Spike,is an inflammable Oil drawn from the Leaves and Flowers of a Plant frequent in the Southern Parts of France, resembling Lavender, and by the Botanists called Lavandula Mas. See ORN. It is much used by Painters and...
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
MOON TIDE, etc. Dr. Halley obliged the World with the Astronomy of Comets, and with a Catalogue of the Stars in the southern Hemisphere; and continues still a Benefactor to Astronomy, by his Observations: To which it may be added, that he has in the...
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ANTARCTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC
or Antarctic, Pole, the Southern Pole, or End of the Earth’s Axis; so called because it is opposite to the Arctic or North Pole. See POLE, SOUTH, ARCTIC, etc. The Stars near the Antarctic Pole never appear above our Horizon. See STAR, HORIZON, etc. The...
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ANTICHTHONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTICHTHONES
used it in a different one. They considered the Earth as divided by the Equator into two Hemispheres, the Northern and Southern; and all those who inhabited one of these Hemispheres were reputed Antichthones to those of the other. In this Sense the Word...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ANTHROPOPHAGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPHAGY
Livy tells us, that Hannibal made his Soldiers eat human Flesh, to render them more fierce and daring in Battle. In the southern Parts of Africa, and in some Parts of America, this horrid Practice still obtains. See CANNIBAL. The Physicians think they...
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ARAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ARA
the Altar, in Astronomy, a Southern Constellation; consisting of eight Stars. See STAR and CONSTELLATION. ARA
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUSTROhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTRO
is a constellation of the southern hemisphere; not visible in our latitude. See CONSTELLATION. AUSTRO
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AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE
or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and eastern parts of Africa, Madagascar, the Maldives, some parts of the Mediterranean, and in the West Indies, about the...
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AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS
'tis produced by a kind of subtle matter, freely pervading the pores of the earth, and which entering into it near the southern pole, passes out again with some force into the aether at the same distance from the northern; the obliquity of its direction...
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ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE
from the Right Ascension D, in Tab. Astronomy, Fig. 63. the Remainder will be the Oblique Ascension O.—If he be in a southern Sign, the ascensional Difference being added to the Right Ascension, the Sum is the Oblique Ascension; and thus may Tables of...
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