. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. 9/ ^»M 7 tf ^. E C L ECLECTICS, Edenlci, ancient pliilofophers,who, without attaching themfeives to any particu-lar fe£t, felefted whatever appeared to them the beftand moft rational. Potamon of Alexandria was the firft of the eclec-tics: he Hved in the reigns of AugulTus and Tibe-rius ; and being tired with the fcepticifm of thePyrrhonians, he refolved upon a fchenie that wouldallow him to believe fomething, but without beingfo implicit as to fwallow any entire hypothefis. ECLECTOS, the fame
. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. 9/ ^»M 7 tf ^. E C L ECLECTICS, Edenlci, ancient pliilofophers,who, without attaching themfeives to any particu-lar fe£t, felefted whatever appeared to them the beftand moft rational. Potamon of Alexandria was the firft of the eclec-tics: he Hved in the reigns of AugulTus and Tibe-rius ; and being tired with the fcepticifm of thePyrrhonians, he refolved upon a fchenie that wouldallow him to believe fomething, but without beingfo implicit as to fwallow any entire hypothefis. ECLECTOS, the fame with what is moreufually called linclus. See Linctus. ECLIPSE, in aftronomy, a privation of the lightof fome , by the interpofition of an opaquebody, either between it and the fpetSators eye, orbetween it and the fun. Should we enquire into the meaning of the wordcclipfe, it will be found a derivative of the Greekverb uc>.if7ta, to faint or fwoon away; for theGrecians fay, that fuch perfons as are troubled witha death-like fainting or fwooning, are eclipfed, ordo fall into an eclipfe. Thus, alfo, t
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