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Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature on a plan entirely new. ...
Date: 1790-98- Books
L'origine et les progrès des arts et des sciences. On verra aussi à la fin de ce petit traité l'invention des lettres de l'alphabet, le matiere sur laquelle on écrivoit anciennement, & l'instrument dont on se servoit pour écrire: on y fait mention de premieres bibliothéques & des plus fameuses qui subsistent aujourd'hui, & de l'histoire véritable de l'imprimerie / Par m. Noblot.
Noblot, Charles, approximately 1668-1745.Date: 1740- Books
A cyclopedia of practical medicine and surgery : a concise reference book, alphabetically arranged, of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, materia medica, therapeutics, and the various specialties, with particular reference to diagnosis and treatment / compiled under the editorial supervision of George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Date: 1900- Books
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The family cyclopaedia; being a manual of useful and necessary knowledge, alphabetically arranged ... comprising all the recent inventions, etc., the most approved methods of curing diseases, with the mode of treatment in cases of drowning, other accidents, and poisons; observations on diet and regimen ... also, a ... view of the human mind / by James Jennings.
Jennings, James (Illustrator)Date: 1821- Books
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Scientific American reference book / compiled by Albert A. Hopkins and A. Russell Bond.
Date: 1905- Books
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General English and French dictionary : newly composed from the English dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Richardson, etc., from the French dictionaries of the French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, etc., and the special dictionaries and works of both languages.
Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869.Date: 1850- Books
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An universal history of arts and sciences: ... The whole extracted from the best authors in all languages, ... By ... Dennis De Coetlogon, ...
De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.Date: 1745- Books
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A new royal and universal dictionary of arts and sciences: or, complete system of human knowledge. Containing, Not only all the various Improvements that have been made by the Learned and Ingenious in every Part of Europe to the present Times; but also a very great variety of useful discoveries, which have been communicated to the Authors of this Work, by Gentlemen of distinguished abilities; whereby every Difficulty attending the Study of the Arts and Sciences is distinctly cleared, and the Whole explained in the most easy and intelligent Manner. Among the various Branches treated of in this Work, are the following: Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Book-Keeping, Botany, Chemistry, Chronology, Commerce, Conics, Cosmography, Criticism, Dialing, Dioptrics, Ethics, Farriery, Fluxions, Fortification Gardening, Gauging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Heraldry, Horsemanship, Husbandry, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Law, Levelling, Logic, Maritime, and Military Affairs, Mathematics, Mechanics, Merchandize, Metaphysics, Meteorology, Music, Navigation, Optics, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physic, Pneumatics, Poetry, Rhetoric, Sculpture, Series and Statics, Statuary, Surgery, Surveying, Theology, Trigonometry, &c. Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Copper-Plates, (among which are twelve large Plates of the Zodiac, from Original Drawings, executed by eminent Astronomers) drawn from real Objects, by the most eminent Artists, and engraved by the best Hands; containing full and exact Representations of the various Instruments, Machines, Tools, Plans, Figures, &c. necessary to illustrate this Work. The anatomical, chemical, and medicinal parts by M. Hinde, M. D. The mathematical parts by W. Squire, Author of The Modern Book-Keeper; gardening and botany by J. Marshall, Gardener, at Knightsbridge; criticism, grammar, poetry, theology, &c. by the Rev. Thomas Cooke, A. B. Author of The Universal Letter-Writer; or, New Art of Polite Correspondence and the other parts by gentlemen of eminence in the several Departments they have undertaken to elucidate.
Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The imperial dictionary of the English language : a complete encyclopedic lexicon, literary, scientific, and technological / by John Ogilvie.
Ogilvie, John, 1797-1867.Date: 1885- Books
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Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families.
Tuson Richard Vine, 1832-1888.Date: 1880- Books
World brain / H.G. Wells ; [with an introduction by Alan Mayne].
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.Date: 1994- Books
Gould and Pyle's pocket cyclopedia of medicine and surgery : based upon the fourth edition of Gould and Pyle's Cyclopedia of practival medicine and surgery.
Date: 1926- Books
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A complete and universal English dictionary on a new plan: including not only I. A full explanation of difficult words and technical terms ... II. A pronouncing dictionary; ... VIII. An authentic account of the counties, cities, and market towns in England, Wales, and Scotland; ... To which are prefixed, A free enquiry into the origin and antiquity of letters: an Essay on the origin and antiquity of the English language: a sketch of the constitution, government, and trade of England: a ... grammar of the English language: and ... An outline of antient and moder history; ... By the Rev. James Barclay, ... and others.
Barclay, James, Curate of Edmonton.Date: 1774- Books
Un grand entomologiste anglais du 16ème siècle, Thomas Moufet, et son 'Theatrum insectorum' : première encyclopédie entomologique du monde occidental / J.M. Doby.
Doby, J. M. (Jean-Marie)Date: 1994- Books
The Fontana dictionary of modern thought / edited by Alan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass.
Date: 1977- Books
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A new edition in quarto, corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged; dedicated, by permission, to the King. This day is published, by Elliot and Kay, no 332. opposite Somerset-Place, Strand, number I. Price one shilling (to be continued weekly); also volume I. part I. containing 10 numbers neatly done up in boards, ... Part II. will be published ... 13th September 1788, being ten weeks from the former part, and at which time the first volume (consisting of 20 numbers) may be had complete, ... the same mode ... to be observed in publishing the subsequent volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica; ...
Date: 1788]- Books
The food inspector's encyclopædia / by A. Horace Walker.
Walker, A. Horace (Albert Horace), 1876-Date: 1912- Books
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Pocket-dictionary of the English and German languages founded upon the larger work of J.L. Hilpert.
Hilpert, Joseph Leonhard.Date: 1851- Books
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A short system of polite learning: being a concise introduction to the arts and sciences, and other branches of useful knowledge. Adapted for schools.
Jaudon, Daniel, 1767-1826.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
Kidney disease in Byzantine medical texts / Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Spyros G. Marketos.
Poulakou-Rebelakou, Effie.Date: 1999- Books
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A supplement to Dr. Harris's Dictionary of arts and sciences; explaining not only the terms in physics, metaphysics, ethics, theology, history, geography, antiquity, chronology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, ... navigation, architecture, painting, ... horticulture, &c. &c. &c. but also the arts and sciences themselves: together with a just account of the origin, progress, and state of things, offices, officers, and orders, ... the several sects, systems, doctrines, and opinions of divines, heresiarchs, schismatics, philosophers, mathematicians, Physicians, critics, antiquaries, &c. Also an account of all sacred books and writings; history of general and particular councils; all solemnities, rites, ceremonies, fasts, feasts, statutes, laws, plays, sports, games, habits, and utensils: in all which, ... this book is of itself entirely compleat, and more copious and extensive than any work of this kind, not excepting Mr. Chamber's Cyclopædia, of which it is a very great improvement, containing upwards of eleven hundred articles which that author has omitted; besides great additions and improvements in almost every article; and will, with Dr. Harris's two volumes, make the most useful set of books, and compleat body of arts and sciences yet extant: being carefully compiled from the best and most approved authors in several languages; enriched with many curious manuscripts, and illustrated with copper-plates. N.B. Those subjects in which Dr. Harris is any way deficient are here perfected; no trifling and insignificent words inserted, but only such as may convey some useful and entertaining knowledge to the reader; for whose further benefit and satisfaction, all the authors made use of in this work are quoted. By a Society of Gentlemen.
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of GentlemenDate: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
A short-title list of subject dictionaries of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : as aids to the history of ideas / [Giorgio Tonelli].
Tonelli, Giorgio, 1941-Date: 1971- Books
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The manners and customs of all nations; also, remarkable biographies, notable histories, eccentric sects, singular inventions, natural curiosities, mystical sciences, extraordinary buildings, wonderful animals, etc. Being a compendium of universal information ... / By the Rev. John Platts.
Platts, John, 1775-1837.Date: [1827]- Pictures
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King Louis XIV is crowned with a garland while the 'Dictionaire de l'academie françoise' is celebrated with flowers by three women aided by genii. Engraving by J. Mariette and G. Edelinck, 1694, after J.B. Corneille.
Corneille, Jean-Baptiste, 1649-1695.Date: 1694Reference: 26172i- Books
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Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; ... By E. Chambers, F.R.S. The third edition corrected and amended; with some additions. In two volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: 1740