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A short system of polite learning: being an introduction to the arts and sciences, and other branches of useful knowledge.
Jaudon, Daniel, 1767-1826.Date: 1800- Books
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The secretary's guide: in four parts. Part I. Containing Variety of Forms for Inditing Letters upon any Subject whatsoever, in the most elegant and refined Stile now made use of: With Directions for giving the most proper Titles and Epithets to Persons of all Ranks and Qualities. Part II. Choice Forms and Precedents for writing Acquirtances, Bills, Bonds, Judgments, Descasances, Letters of Attorney, Deeds of Gifts, Wills, Assignments, Counter-Securities, Bills of Sale, Letters of License, Indentures for Apprentices, inland and foreign Bills of Exchange, &c. Part III. An Account of Time, in Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years; with a Perpetual Almanack, shewing the Day of the Month forever; fixed Feasts and remarkable Days; a Table of Kings and Queens; Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and then Causes, shewing when they will be eclipsed forever. Also how to find the Moon's rising and serting at any time; Signs of Weather: a Chronology from the Creation to this present Year. Tables of Annuities, Expences, and Wages; An exact Catalogue of all the Roads and Post-Stages, with the Number of Miles: The Method of the General Post, shewing what Days Letters may be sent, and whither; with the Rates for Carriage of the foreign and inland Letters; also the Method of the Penny-Post, and several other Things necessary to be known. Part IV. A short, but comprehensive, English Dictionary, alphabetically explaining all hard and difficult Words; Together with some useful Directions for true Pointing, &c. Written by G. F. gent.
G. F., gent., active 1734-1741.Date: [1705?]- Books
Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Date: 1833-43- Books
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A supplement to the New and universal dictionary of arts and sciences / [John Barrow].
Barrow, John (Teacher of mathematics)Date: 1754- Books
Witches : an encyclopedia of paganism and magic / Michael Jordan ; photographs by Sally Griffyn.
Jordan, Michael, 1941-Date: 1996- Books
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A supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia: or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences. In two volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: MDCCLIII [1753]- Books
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A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences; comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as well of the various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures, and Schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of The Classes, Kinds, Preparations, and Uses of Natural Productions, whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, or Fluids; Together with The Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns, and other remarkable Places throughout the World. Illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. The whole extracted from the best authors in all languages. By a society of gentlemen.
Society of Gentlemen.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
Universal cyclopaedia : containing the following fourteen works of reference in one volume.
Date: [1911?]- 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: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is explained, And the Difficulties attending the Acquisition of Every Art, Whether Liberal or Mechanical, are Removed, in the most easy and familiar manner. Among the various Branches of Literature explained in this Work are the following, viz. Agriculture Algebra Anatomy Architecture Arithmetic Astronomy Botany Catoptrics Chemistry Chronology Commerce Conics Cosmography Dialling Dioptrics Ethics Fluxions Fortification Gardening Gauging Geography Geometry Grammar Gunnery Handicrafts Heraldry History Horsemanship Husbandry Hydraulics Hydrography Hydrostatics Law Levelling Logic Maritime And Military Affairs Mathematics Mechanics Merchandize Metaphysics Meteorology Music Navigation Optics Painting Perspective Pharmacy Philology Philosophy Physic Pneumatics Rhetoric Sculpture Series Statics Statuary Surgery Surveying Theology, &c. The theological, philological, and critical branches, by the Rev. Temple Henry Croker, A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough. The medicinal, anatomical, and chemical, by Thomas Williams, M. D. The mathematical by Samuel Clark, Author of an Easy Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics. and the other parts by several gentlemen particularly conversant in the Arts or Sciences they have undertaken to explain.
Croker, Temple Henry, 1729 or 1730-1790?.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
Isidori Etymologiarum opus idem de summo bono.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.Date: [between 1501 and 1510?]- Books
Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: 1738- Books
Encyclopædia Britannica, or, Dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature.
Date: 1853-1860- Books
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The every day book : containing biographical sketches, personal adventures, incidents of travel, sketches in natural history, useful information in science, poetical selection, and other subjects fitted to interest and enrich the mind.
Date: 1855- Books
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L'image du monde de maitre Gossouin : rédaction en prose / Texte du manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale, fonds français no. 574, avec corrections d'après d'autres manuscrits, notes et introduction par O.H. Prior.
Date: 1913- Books
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Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; containing an explication of the terms, and an account of the things signified thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical; and the several sciences, human and divine. The figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses of things natural and artificial: the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial: with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c. among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, critics, &c. The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning. Extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages. By E. Chambers, F.R.S. The fourth edition, corrected and amended; with some additions. In two volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: MDCCXLI [1741]- Books
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Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves. Vol. I. By John Harris, D.D. and F.R.S.
Harris, John, 1667?-1719.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature / Enlarged and improved.
Date: 1823- Books
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Arts, manufactures, professions and trades : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families.
Cooley, Arnold James.Date: 1880- Books
An index of possibilities : energy and power / conceived, written, edited, and produced by The Catalogue : John Chesterman, Mike Marten, John May, Maggie Murphy-Ferris, Nadine Moggs Seton, Lee Torrey, John Trux, Joy Watt ; art direction, Richard Adams, George Snow.
The Catalogue (Organization)Date: 1974- Books
Guida alla nuova edizione de l'Encyclopédie di Diderot e d'Alembert : Parigi 1751-1772 pubblicata in 18 volumni da Franco Maria Ricci, Parma e Parigi 1970-1980 / presentazione di Jorge Luis Borges, Roland Barthes, Alain Pons.
Date: 1970-1980 [i.e. ©1980]- Books
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A dictionary of the Bible : dealing with its language, literature, and contents, including the Biblical theology / edited by James Hastings ; with the co-operation of John A. Selbie.
Date: 1909-10- Books
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Encyclopædia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, &c. On a plan entirely new: By Which, the different sciences and arts Are digested into the Form of Distinct treatises or systems, comprehending The History, Theory, and Practice, of each, according to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether Relating to Natural and Artificial Objects, or to Matters Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, Commercial, &c. Together with a description of all the Countries, Cities, Principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &c. throughout the World; a General History, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States; and An Account of the lives of the most Eminent Persons in every Nation, from the earliest ages down to the present times. The whole compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages; the most approved dictionaries, as well of General Science as of particular branches; the transactions, journals, and memoirs, of learned societies, both at home and abroad; the Ms. Lectures of eminent professors on different sciences; and a variety of original materials, furnished by an extensive correspondence. The second edition; greatly improved and enlarged. Illustrated with above two hundred copperplates. Vol. I. Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English : published under the patronage of the Honourable East-India Company / by Francis Johnson.
Johnson, Francis, 1796?-1876.Date: 1852- Books
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A new universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting The Invention, Structure, Improvement, and Uses, Of the most considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines, with Their Nature, Power, and Operation, decyphered in fifty two copper-plates. In two volumes.
Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]