Barlow
Barlow (jou.), An American Literary And Politi Cal Character Of Considerable Note, Was Born In The Year 1756, In The Village Of Reading, State Of Connecti Cut; And Appears To Have Been The Youngest Of Ten Children. His Father Died When He Was Yet A Boy; But His Friends, Attentive ...
Baro Meter
Baro Meter. E Encyclopedia Contains Such An Account Of The Discovery And Construction Of This Meet Valuable In Strument, As Could Be Drawn From The Popultir Trea Tises Of Natural Philosophy In The English Language. But, Unfortunately, Our Compilers Of Elementary Works Have Seldom Taken The Trouble To Remount To ...
Barometrical Measurements It
Barometrical Measurements. It Was Remarked In The Preceding Article, That The Decisive Experiment By Which Pascal Established The Reality Of Atmospheric Pressure, Had Likewise Suggest Ed To This Ingenious Philosopher The Method Of De Termining The Elevations Points On The Sur Face Of The Globe. But The First Attempts Were ...
Barracks
Barracks. Till The Middle Of The Year 1792, When There Was A Prospect Of A War With Revolu Tionary France, And The British Ministry Were Ap Prehensive Of Disturbance' In This Country, Bar Racks Were Neither Very Numerous, Nor Were They Un Der The Control And Management Of A Separate ...
Barry James
Barry (james), An Eminent Painter, Was Born At Cork, In Ireland, October 11, 1741. His Father Had Been A Builder, And At One Time Of His Life, A Coasting Trader Between The Two Countries Of Eng Land And Ireland. To This Business Of A Trader Was James Destined, And He ...
Barthez
Barthez (psur. Joseph), One Of The Most Ce Lebrated Physicians Of The University Of Montpellier, Equally Remarkable For The Variety And Extent Of His Erudition, As For The Vigour Of Mind Displayed In His Abstruse Speculations. He Was Boin On The 11th Of December 1784, At Montpellier, And Received His ...
Basedow
Basedow (john Bernard), A Celebrated German Writer, Born At Hamburgh, September 11, 1728, Was The Son Of A Hair-dresser. Ill Treatment Made Him Abandon His Father's House. A Physician, In A Took Him Into His Service, And Shortly Persuaded Him To Return Home To His Father. Being Placed In One ...
Basket Making
Basket-making. The Earlier Arta Mankind, In An Uncivilized Condition, Are Res= To Operations•n Materials Which Undergo Slight And Imperceptible Changes; • And Implements Are Fabri Cated From Substances Almost In Their Natural State. The Process Of Interweaving Twigs, Reeds, Or Leaves, Is Seen Among The Rudest Nations Of The World, ...
Bathing
Bathing. In Addition To The Historical, Eco Nomical, And Physical Details Respecting The Practice Of Bathing, Which Have Been Inserted In' The Body Of The Encyclopedia, We Find Many Investigations In The Works Of Some Of The Latest Authors, Relating To Its Medical And Physiological Effects, Which Require To Be ...
Bathing
Bathing. Ous, And To Occasion Indolent Tumours Of The Absor Bent Glands Belonging To The Parts Concerned. If We Admit That Baths Are Ever, Strictly Speak Ing, Either Diluent Or Nutrient, We Must Suppose The Cutaneous Absorbents To Be The Channels Of These Actions ; And The Majority Of Authors, ...
Baume Anthony
Baume (anthony), A Druggist In Paris, Dis. Tinguished By His Knowledge Of Chemistry, And By His Practical Application Of That Knowledge, Was Born Et Senlis In 1728. He Was The Son Of An Innkeeper, And Was Put Apprentice To The Eminent Chemist Geof Froy. He Had Not Received A Regular ...
Bavaria
Bavaria. This Country Has Undergone Several Very Remarkable Changes Within The Last Fortyyears. The First Of These Political Agitations, In Point Of Time, And The Greatest, Perhaps, In Point Of General In Terest (for, In Those Days, The European Public Were Not Accustomed To The Making And Unmaking Of Go ...
Bayen Peter
Bayen (peter), A Celebrated Chemist, Member ' Of The Institute Of France, Was Born In 1725, At Chalons Sur Marne. He Showed A Great Inclina Tion To Study, And Was Sent By His Parents To School At Troyes, Where He Went Through A Course Of Clas Sical Education With Success. ...
Bazeegurs
Bazeegurs, A Tribe Of Indians, Inhabiting Dif Ferent Parts Of The Peninsula Of I Lindostan. The Ap Pearance And Manners Of Mankind Are So Much Diver Sified In The Various Countries Where They Dwell, That Animated Controversies Have Been Excited, Whether All Have Had A Common Origin ; Or Whether ...
Beattie
Beattie (janus, Ll.d.), A Distinguish Mo Ralist And Poet, Was Born On The 25th October 1785, At Laurencekirk, Then An Obscure Hamlet, In The County Of Kincardine In Scotland; Near Which Place His Father Rented A Small Farm. He Received His Early Education At The Common School Of' The Parish ...
Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais (pt Sans Avoustin Carob De) Appears To Have Been One Of Those Persons Who, From Restlessness Of Disposition And Singularity Of Character, Obtain, In Their Own Age, More Celebrity Than They Are Entitled To From Their Merit Or Talents. He Was Born At Paris In 1732, And Was The ...
Beccaria Giambattista
Beccaria (giambattista), A Very Ingenious And Industrious Electrician And Practical Astrono Mer, Was Born At Mendovi, The 2d Of October 1716, And Entered The Religious Order Of The Pious Schools In 1739. He Became A Professor Of Experimental' Physics, First At Palermo, And Then At Rome, And Was Appointed To ...
Beckmann John
Beckmann (john), During Nearly Forty-five Years Professor At Gottingen, Was Born At Hoye, In The Electorate Of Hanover, In 1739. His Father, Who Was Receiver Of Taxes, And Postmaster In This Town, Occupied Himself In The Cultivation Of A Small Piece Of Land, And Appears To Have Inspired His Son ...
Beddoes Thomas
Beddoes (thomas), A Physician Of Great Emi Nence For His Talents And Philanthropy, Was Born At Shiffiiall In Shropshire, On The 13th Of April 1760, And Was Originally Of Welsh Extraction. He Receiv Ed The First Rudiments Of His Education At A School In His Native Town, And Afterwards At ...
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire. The Article, In The Work, On This County, Is Almost Exclusively Confined To Its Ancient History, And Its Antiquities, And In The .short Notices Which It Gives On Other Points, It Is By No Means Accurate. In This Article, Therefore, We Shall At Tend To What Is Omitted Or ...
Before
Before The End Of The Sixteenth Century, Mechanical Science Had Never Gone Beyond The Problems Which Treat Of The Equilibrium Of Bodies, And Had Been Able To Resolve These Accurately, Only In The Cases Which Can Be Easily Reduced To The Lever. Guido Ubaldi, An Italian Mathematician, Was Among The ...
Begga R
Begga R. Word Literally Means, One Who Begs. In A More Restricted Sense, It Means One Who Begs The Means Of Subsistence. Even This Definition, However, Is Too Ex Tensive For The Idea To Which, In This Article, We Mean To Confine It. The Class, In Fact, Of The Persons ...