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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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LHE Best ACconnE P can gire oF che Sollomine W ork, will
be co lay betore rou in a Chort View wrhae ic conrains,
wherein ic disters trom ocher Books which may seem eo be
ofche lame Nacure, andtrom whence lhare collected che
Substance oF ic. Thac which Lhare aimed ac, is co malee ic a Dictio.
Mary noc omly oE bare Words buc Thines; and char che Readex May ROE
only fnd here an Explication of the Pechnical W ords, or the Perms ot
Are made use of in allthe Liberal Sciences, and such as border nearty ux.
on chem, buc also chole ares chemselves; and especially such, and such ParEs
ot ehem as are most Uletul and Adrancasious eo Mankeind. In chis,
hich was che chiet of my Desion, ITound much lels helx trom Dictio.
naries already publistred, chen one vould have expected tiom cheir
Tiles: ChauvinS Lexicon Rationale, Or Thesaurus Philosophieus, is 2 vell
Princed Book, and che Figures are tinely Grared; bue eis to0
much filled wich che School Terms, eo be ulesully instructire; and
is as delectire in che Modern Improremenes of Machematical and
Physical Learmins, as ic abounds ich a Canr which mas once milta-
ken For Science.
Phe Grand Dictionaire Des Aris ex Sciences, par V. de l’ Aeademie Francoise,
hachno Curs nor Figures ac all, and is only a bare Explicarion ot Terms
OF ArE; and ic scemsrather eo hare been delien d eo improve and prova-
sate che French Languase, chanco inform and instruet che Lumane Mind
in general. And, which I hare oscen monder d ac, eis Ailled every
here wich Simple Terms, (0 chat vou are cold whac a DOB, a CAE, 2
Horse and a Shcep is; wtich, cho ic may be uletul eo lome Persons
wto did noc know that besore, and may Bhew very vell chaE (uCh De-
criprions can be given in French; vec ho chebare Names oF Animals
and Vegerables, of Merals and Minerals, can be reckoned as Ferms of
art, and consequenely make che grearest part oE a Dictinary os Arts and
Sciences, Pconsels lcannor sec. And cheretore, cho chis and Nr. Fure
tieres Dictionary may be Boolis very vell done in cheir vay, and are cer-
cainly very ulesul for chole iho vould be pertectly aequainced wich che
French Fongue; ver Idid nor tind much alsistance tromchem, Wich re
Bud comy DCHer.
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