Cyclopædia
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SEXAGENARY TABLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEXAGENARY-TABLES
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
by the greatest Geniuses, and patronized bythe greatest Princes.—Alphonso, King of Castile, enriched it withthose Tables which still bear his Name. See TABLES. Copernicus re-established the ancient Pythagorean System; and Tycho Brahe published a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
Giovanni Poleni, published in the Venetian Miscellany, 1709.—To these may be added,Logarithmical Arithmetic, performed by Tables of Logarithms. See LOGARITHM. The best Piece on this Subject, is Henry Briggs's Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. To this Head...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Astronomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy
Maculæ, &c. Observations thereof, taken with the Quadrant, Gnomon, Micrometer, Reticula, &c. Collected in Catalogue, Tables, &c. Hypotheses, or Systems thereof, Copernican, Tychonic, Ptolemaic, &c. , Exhibited in Sphere, Globe, &c.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Houshold, Chamber, Green-Cloth, Ward-robe, &c. Under Steward, Chamberlain, Comptroller, Cosferer, Aga, Oda, &c. Guard, Stables, Ordnance, &c. directed by Captain, Master, Equerry, &c. Militia, Navy, Post, Timariot, Arriere-ban, &c. Dignities, Dauphin,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC
who lived about the Year 1050; if not in ordinary Affairs, yet at least in Mathematical ones, and particularly Astronomical Tables. The same Author gives us an Instance of their Antiquity in England, from a Mantel-Tree of a Chimney, in the Parsonage...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
branch of Cognation, which only includes the descendants in the male line. See CONSANGUINITY. By the Law of the Twelve Tables, males and females succeeded one another according to the order of proximity, and without any regard to the sex. But the laws...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE
two Persons, or two Families, by means of Marriage; called also Affinity. See MARRIAGE, and AFFINITY. The Law of the Twelve Tables forbids all Alliance between Persons of unequal Rank and Condition. —And in Portugal, we are told, the Daughters of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL
Roemer, and Kirch. See further under the articles OBSERVATORY, CATALOGUE, etc. See CELESTIAL OBSERVATIONS. ASTRONOMICAL Tables, See ASTRONOMICAL TABLE. ASTRONOMICAL Quadrant, See ASTRONOMICAL QUADRANT. ASTRONOMICAL Telescope, See ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE
Sign, the ascensional Difference being added to the Right Ascension, the Sum is the Oblique Ascension; and thus may Tables of Oblique Ascensions be constructed for the several Degrees of the Ecliptic, under the several Elevations of the Pole. See TABLE....
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified