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

    the same Nature; and each of them in their turn to Things wholly different. Whence, any Definition that can hold of them universally, must needs be very abstracted, and general; and may hold of almost any thing else; and of consequence can express very...

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

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

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    Gold——And hence also the Artists themselves are called χρυσοποιοί, Poets, Makers, and χρυσοποιηταί, Gold-makers. 2°, An Universal Medicine, adequate to all Diseases. See ELIXIR. 3°, An Universal Dissolvent, or Alkahest. See ALKAHEST.4°, An Universal...

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    us'd in divers Arts, and with divers Intentions. See ABBREVIATURE. Thus, Among Logicians, A is us'd to denote an universal Affirmative Proportion ; according to the Verse, Asserit Ai negat E, verùm generaliter Ambæ. Thus, in the first Mood, a Syllogism...

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

  • ASCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT

    in logic,is a kind of Argumentation, wherein we rise from Particulars to Universals. See Universal, Argument, and Particular. As, when we say, This Man is an Animal, and that Man is an Animal, and the other Man, &c. therefore every Man is an Animal.—Or...

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

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

    is acknowledged by Mr. Boyle to be the most heterogeneous Body in the Universe. Boerhaave even shows it to be a universal Chaos, or Colluvies of all the Kinds of created Bodies.—Whatever Fire can volatilize is found in the air; but there is no Body that...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    analogous to the Agreements or Disagreements thereof. All these Imperfections are endeavoured to be obviated in the Universal Alphabets, or Characters of Mr. Lodowic Bishop Wilkins, &c. See UNIVERSAL CHARACTER. In the French King’s Library, is an Arabic...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    or that a thing is. See AFFIRMATION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Negative. See NEGATIVE. There are universal affirmative propositions; and such, usually are the first of syllogisms. See UNIVERSAL, SYLLOGISM, etc. In Algebra we have also...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    they believe to be the principle of life in vegetables. See CENTER, etc. Others, by the word Archaeus, mean a certain universal spirit, diffused throughout the whole creation, the active cause of all the phenomena in nature. See SPIRIT, NATURE, etc....

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    3000 fixed Stars; which is more than double the Number in that of Hevelius.—Nothing now seemed wanting to Astronomy, but a universal and complete Theory of the celestial Phenomena, explained according to their true Motions and physical Causes, which has...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    d'Architecture, etc., and since also into High-Dutch, with notes. To these are to be added Vincenzo Scamozzi, his Idea of Universal Architecture, published in 1615, in Italian, and Charles Philippe Dieufart, in his Theatre of Civil Architecture,...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    moved on the Face of the Deep." See GOD, ABYSS, etc. The modern Platonists explain their Master’s Anima Mundi by a certain universal, ethereal Spirit, which in the Heavens exists perfectly pure, as retaining its proper Nature; but on Earth, pervading...

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

  • ARITHMETIC OF INFINITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC%20OF%20INFINITES

    the Areas of Superficies, and the Contents of Solids, and their Proportions.—But the Method of Fluxions, which is a universal Arithmetic of Infinites, performs all this much easier; and Multitude of other Things which the former will not reach. See...

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

  • ARMINIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANISM

    Predestination, and Grace, too severe, they have returned to those of the Roman Church, and maintain, that there is a universal Grace given to all Men; that Man is always free, and at Liberty to reject or embrace Grace, etc. See GRACE, FREE-WILL, etc....

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    Line ; omitting the Consideration of its Breadth and Depth. Thirdly, it is by Abstraction that the Mind frames general or universal Ideas ; omitting the Modes and Relations of the particular Objects whence they are form'd. — Thus, when we would...

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

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

    The attraction of gravity, called also among mathematicians, the centripetal force, is one of the greatest and most universal principles in all nature.—We see and feel it operate on bodies near the earth. See WEIGHT.—And find, by observation, that the...

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    The best Piece on this Subject, is Henry Briggs's Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. To this Head may also be added, the universal Arithmetical Tables of Prosthaphaeresis, published in 1610, by Hulsius; whereby Multiplication is easily and accurately...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    an Attrition from an impulse made in one or more particular Places; but can never be forced out of their Vessels by an universal Compression—It follows, that as none of the Parts undergo either Separation, Luxation, Contusion, or any other Change of...

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

  • Metaphysicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/metaphysics

    Association, Abstraction, &c. Its Perceptions, as Substance, Accident, Mode, &c. Relations, as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • ANASARCAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANASARCA

    in Medicine, a type of universal Dropsy, wherein the whole Substance of the Body is swollen or bloated with watery Humours. See DROPSY. The Anasarca is otherwise called Leucophlegmatia. See LEUCOPHLEGMATIA. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀνάσαρκος...

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