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Assuming tortoise is required, the following 9 results were found.

  • TORTOIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TORTOIS

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    Animals are sufficiently guarded against all common Dangers by their natural Clothing, their Armature of Shells, as the Tortoise, etc. See SHELL, TORTOISE, etc. —Others, destitute of this Guard, are armed with Horns; others with sharp Quills, or...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    for divers Species to pass four, five, or six Months every Year without either eating or drinking : Accordingly, the Tortoise, Bear, Dormoule, Serpent, Swallow, Fly, &c. are observ'd regularly to retire, at those Seasons, to their respective Cells and...

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

  • Zoologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/zoology

    Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon, Salamander, &c. Barnacle, Anchovy, Death-Watch, &c. Monsters, as Double Animals, Hermaphrodite, Mule, Pigmy,...

    • Type: Category

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

    or already advanced; the other also what is present, or remains to be done: The one tells, e.g. how Mercury finding a dead Tortoise on the Shore, took its Shell, added Strings to it, and made it into a Lyre: The other, how a Lyre is, or may be made. And...

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

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

    Quadruped, Bird, Fish, Insect, Reptile, Ruminant, Carnivorous, &c. Extraordinary Species, as Unicorn, Torpedo, Tarantula, Tortoise, Cameleon, Salamander, &c. Barnacle, Anchovy, Death-Watch, &c. Monsters, as Double Animals, Hermaphrodite, Mule, Pigmy,...

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

  • ACHILLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLES

    peculiarly termed an Achilles. That Philosopher made a Comparison between the Swiftness of Achilles, and the Slowness of a Tortoise;whence he argued, that a slow Movable that precedes a swift one by ever so small Distance, will never be outrun by it....

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Sympathy. See SYMPATHY. Such is commonly said to be between the Salamander and the Tortoise, the Vine and the Elm, the Toad and the Weasel, the Sheep and the Wolf, the Olive and the Oak, etc. Mersenne, in his...

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

  • AMPHIBIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMPHIBIOUS

    but pass part of their Time in the Water, as affording 'em their chief Food. See ANIMAL. Such are the Frog, Castor, Otter, Tortoise, Sea-Calf, Crocodile, etc. The Amphibious Kind have peculiar Provisions in their Structure, to fit 'em for so various a...

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