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authority of the see of Rome, was born at Antwerp in the 
year 1649. He became a canon of his native city, and in 
1678, he made himself known by a Latin treatise on the an¬ 
tiquities of the church. In 1681, he published a dissertation 
on the council of Antioch, held under pope Julius I. in 341. 
His reputation was now very considerable, and he was in¬ 
vited to Rome by pope Innocent XI., and by him appointed 
keeper of the Vatican library. He was employed by the 
pope on the following occasion:—The general assembly of 
the French clergy, in 1682, drew up four famous articles, 
containing an explicit declaration of the doctrine of the Gal- 
lican church, respecting the temporal and spiritual power. 
In the second of these, it declared its inviolable attachment 
to certain decrees of the council of Constance, in which the 
superiority of general councils to any other spiritual power 
on earth is positively established. Schelstraate, thinking that 
he had found in the Vatican manuscripts that which proved 
that one of these decrees had been corrupted by the fathers 
of the council of Basil, printed in 1683, at the pope’s de¬ 
sire, a work, entitled “ Acta Constantinensis Concilii ad ex- 
positionem decretorum ejus Sessionum IV. etV. facientia, 
nunc primum ex codicibus Manuscriptis in lucem eruta et 
Dissertatione illustrata.” For this he was rewarded, in 1687, 
by a canonry of St. Peter’s, and another of St. John of La- 
teran. In the same year he published a treatise on the pa¬ 
triarchal and metropolitan authority. His great work was 
entitled “ Antiquitates Ecclesise illustratae,” of which he 
printed the first volume at Rome in 1690. During the 
printing of the second, in 1692, the author died. 
SCHE'MATISM, s. [yxfiya.lia-y.oi;, Gr.] Combination 
of the aspects of heavenly bodies. Particular form or 
disposition of a thing.—Every particle of matter, whatever 
form or schematism it puts on, must in all conditions be 
equally extended, and therefore take up the same room. 
Creech. 
SCHE'MATIST, s. A projector; one given to forming 
schemes.—The noisy importunities of unexperienced, raw, 
newfangled schematists and speculators. Fleetwood. 
SCHEME, s. Gr.] A plan; a combination of 
various things into one view, design, or purpose; a system.™ 
Were our senses made much quicker, the appearance and 
outward scheme of things would have quite another face to 
us, and be inconsistent with our well-being. Locke. —A 
project; a contrivance; a design. 
He forms the well concerted scheme of mischief, 
’Tis fix’d, ’tis done, and both are doom’d to death. Rowe. 
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any 
lineal or mathematical diagram. 
It is a scheme and face of heaven, 
Asth’ aspects are dispos’d this even. Hudibras. 
SCHEME, or Schema, jjwa, in the Ancient Music, is 
used for the varieties arising from the different positions of 
tones and semitones in a consonance. See also Schema. 
To SCHEME, v. a. To plan.—That wickedness which 
schemed , and executed, his destruction. Stuart. 
To SCHEME, v. n. To contrive: to form or design. 
Johnson. 
SCHE'MER, s. A projector; a contriver. 
SCHE'MIST, s. A projector; a schematist.—One cannot 
enough wonder at the extreme folly of all such schemists as 
pretend to account for things upon principles of mechanism. 
Coventry. 
SCHEMMERBERG, a large village of the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Wirtemberg, on the Riess; 3 miles north of 
Hohenberg. Population 1300. 
SCHEMNITZ, or Selmecz-Banja, a large mining town 
in the north-west of Hungary. It stands in the midst of the 
most picturesque scenery, a few miles from the Raab, and 
contains a number of good houses and tolerably wide streets, 
though irregularly built, on account of the unevenness of the 
surface. It contains, including the suburb of Bela-Banja, 
about 23,000 inhabitants, of whom 12,000 are employed in 
or abou tthe mines. The mines of Schemnitz are the most 
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extensive in Hungary, and are hardly surpassed by any in 
Europe. The extent of ground containing the ores is cal¬ 
culated at five or six miles square, and includes the town, 
which is undermined. The works are now at a great depth, 
the old tunnel for drawing off the water being nearly 1100 
feet below the surface, and the new tunnel being still lower. 
The quantity of water in mines of such depth is very great, 
and the machinery for raising it by pumps to the height of 
the tunnels is simple and ingenious. Indeed the whole of 
the establishment displays more combination and arrange- 
ment than might be expected in a backward country. The 
rocks are composed of clay-porphyry, and the metallic ore is 
found imbedded in veins of rocks differing from the rest, and 
consisting chiefly in feldt-spar. The chief metals are gold, 
silver, and lead, combined with copper and arsenic. Those 
ores, which contain a small quantity of silver, are smelted 
here, after which the silver is sent to Kremnitz. Those which 
contain a larger quantity are sent at once to the smelting 
works at that place. The whole of the mining of Schemnitz 
is the property of government; but any individual may open 
a mine, on condition of disposing of the ore to government 
at a fixed price. The quantity wrought was considerably 
reduced during the wars of the French revolution, on ac¬ 
count of pecuniary embarrassments. Schemnitz is a favour¬ 
able situation for a mining-school, and there has been here 
one of celebrity since the middle of the 18th century. The 
course occupies three years; the branches taught are me¬ 
chanics, mathematics, mineralogy, and drawing of plans and 
maps; also the care of forests and the conversion of timber. 
Of the students, in number from 200 to 300, a part are 
generally foreigners. A fund for experiments is allowed by 
government; 46 miles north of Gran, and 83 east-by-north 
of Presburg. Lat. 48. 47. 45. N. long. 18. 54. 5. E. 
SCHENCK (John), commonly called Schenck of Graf- 
fenburg, was born at Friburg, inJuue, 1531. He received 
the degree of doctor of physic at Tubingen in the year 1554, 
and soon after obtained a public appointment as physician 
to his native town, where he lived with great reputation to 
the age of 67, and died on the 12th of November, 1598. He 
is principally known at present by a large collection of cases 
of rare and extraordinary diseases, which he compiled 
partly from books, partly from the communications of his 
friends and contemporaries, and partly from his own ex¬ 
perience. From the period at which he lived, it will scarcely 
be expected that his collection should be void of a good deal 
of the marvellous, or that he should not exhibit many proofs 
of credulity, and of want of discrimination as to the authori¬ 
ties which he quotes. Nevertheless this collection still re¬ 
mains a monument of extraordinary industry and research, 
and a repository of much curious matter. The author pub¬ 
lished the work in seven successive volumes, between the 
years 1584 and 1597; the first at Basle, and the others at 
Friburg; some of them in octavo, and some in quarto. But 
they were collected together after his death by his son, John 
George Schenck, and published under the title of “ Obser- 
vationum Medicarum, rararum, novarum, admirabilium, et 
monstrosarum volumen, tomes septem de toto homine insti- 
tutum;” Franc. 1600. The work has passed through several 
subsequent editions. See Eloy Diet. Hist, de la Med. 
SCHENECTADY, a county of the United States, in New 
York, on the Mohawk, bounded north-west by Montgomery 
county, north-east by Saratoga county, south by Albany 
county, and south-west by Schoharie county. Population 
10 , 201 . 
SCHENECTADY, a city of the United States, a post 
township, and capital of Schenectady county. New York, on 
the Mohawk ; 15 miles north-west of Albany. The city is 
situated on the south-east side of the Mohawk, on a hand¬ 
some plain; it is regularly laid out, and contains a court¬ 
house, a jail, a bank, a college, an academy for young ladies, 
and four churches; one for Presbyterians, one for Dutch 
Reformed, one for Episcopalians, and one for Methodists, 
and had, in 1812, about 500 houses. A weekly newspaper 
is published here. An elegant bridge, 997 feet in length, is 
built in this place across the Mohawk. Union College is 
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