Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify’d 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 Ancient and Modern Learning. Compiled from the best Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Translations, Ephemerides, &c. in several Languages. In Two Volumes. By E. Chambers Gent.

Chambers, Ephraim (1728-1728): Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify’d 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 Ancient and Modern Learning. Compiled from the best Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Translations, Ephemerides, &c. in several Languages. In Two Volumes. By E. Chambers Gent. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: XXXII p., 184 p., p. 75-386, p. 161-380, 282 p. [= 1029 p.]; vol. 2: p. 365-682, p. 733-944, p. 951-1038, 392 p. [= 1034 p.], London. vol. 1: Frontispiece [untitled]; Part I: Tab. Algebra (p. 60); Tab. Anatomy (p. 85); Tab. Architecture (p. 135); Tab. Astronomy (p. 164); Part II: Tab. Conicks (p. 304); Part III: Tab. Dialling (p. 199); Part IV: Tab. Fortification (p. 49); Tab. Geography & Hydrography (p. 60), Tab. Geometry (p. 141), Tab. Hydraulicks & Hydrostaticks (p. 274); vol. 2: Frontispiece [untitled], Part I: Tab. Mechanicks (p. 521), Tab. Miscellany (p. 558), Tab. Natural History (p. 617), Tab. Opticks (p. 667), Part II: Tab. Perspective (p. 794), Tab. Pneumaticks (p. 841), Part III: - Part IV: A Ship of War (p. 69), Tab. Surveying (p. 156), Tab. Trigonometry (p. 249), folio,

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Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify’d 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 Ancient and Modern Learning. Compiled from the best Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Translations, Ephemerides, &c. in several Languages. In Two Volumes. By E. Chambers Gent.

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Chambers, Ephraim

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James and John Knapton, et al.

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London

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1st ed.

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1728	1728

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2 vols

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vol. 1: XXXII p., 184 p., p. 75-386, p. 161-380, 282 p. [= 1029 p.]; vol. 2: p. 365-682, p. 733-944, p. 951-1038, 392 p. [= 1034 p.]

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vol. 1: Frontispiece [untitled]; Part I: Tab. Algebra (p. 60); Tab. Anatomy (p. 85); Tab. Architecture (p. 135); Tab. Astronomy (p. 164); Part II: Tab. Conicks (p. 304); Part III: Tab. Dialling (p. 199); Part IV: Tab. Fortification (p. 49); Tab. Geography & Hydrography (p. 60), Tab. Geometry (p. 141), Tab. Hydraulicks & Hydrostaticks (p. 274); vol. 2: Frontispiece [untitled], Part I: Tab. Mechanicks (p. 521), Tab. Miscellany (p. 558), Tab. Natural History (p. 617), Tab. Opticks (p. 667), Part II: Tab. Perspective (p. 794), Tab. Pneumaticks (p. 841), Part III: - Part IV: A Ship of War (p. 69), Tab. Surveying (p. 156), Tab. Trigonometry (p. 249)

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