Cyclopædia
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WATCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/WATCH
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGRYPNIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRYPNIA
Agyria, a Watching, or dreaming Slumber. See COMA, WATCHING, SLEEP, etc. AGRYPNIA
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DEATH-Watchhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEATH-Watch
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...
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Mechanicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics
MECHANICS, including, the Structure and Contrivance of MACHINES, as Balance, Steelyard, Pully, Polyspast, &c. Wheel, Clock, Watch, Pendulum, Spring, Fusee. &c. Clepsydra, Coach, Rota Arisiotelica. Perpetual Motion &c.---- Mill, Press, Vice, Lath, Loom,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY
AUDITORY, something belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON
AUTOMATON, or AUTOMATUM; a self-moving engine, or a machine which has the principle of motion within itself. See MACHINE and MOTION. Such were Archytas’s dove, mentioned by Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. L.10., and Regiomontanus’s wooden eagle, which, as...
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ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS
ARCHAEUS, an obscure term, used chiefly among the ancient chemists, to express I know not what principle of life and motion; the cause of all the effects which men observe in nature. See LIFE. Hence, as they differ in their ideas of a vital cause, the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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