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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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TBC P R E F AC F.
A Table oF Fossils Ihave siven vou trom che ACCuTaLC OF. Woodmard,
Protellor ot Medicine in Crestam Collese: And a Scheme ot Mecalsand
Srones trom Bishop Wilkins S Real Character.
Phave also siven vou a large ACCOnnE OF Regetation, irhich is very
curioussy and exactly donc trom che Experimenes and Obserrarions ot
Dr. Woodmard..
Vou have here also2 g00d Acconnt of the Nature and PFOPerEY OF FhE
Wind, From Capc. Falley: And a Delcriprion oF Mr. Papins S Wind- Cun,
FrOM NIF. Boyle.
Firom which last Excellene Gentleman, Thare also caken wtrar ((ay
abouethe Pacure and Properties oF Cold.
And likewise rom Capc. Flalley and Mr. Nemton, is collected aII thac
ehich von ill find under che W ord Fleat.
In Chrmistry, che Knomledee of wrhich is one great help comards che
understandins of Nacure, l have been large and particular; explainino
the Chymical Principles, Vessels and Deorees ol Fire, and have omie-
red no Processnor Operation of IIse, chac Pcould cirher meee wich in
Books, or vec trom ny Friends; 25 che Reader ill soon see by con-
Culcins che B0ok ic selt, under sucti W ords aS Phosphorus, Bolonian Stone,
Simpathetick Ints, Transmutation, ec.
In Anatomy lhave been very large and tull, describing ail the Parrs oF
an JTumane Body, boch incernal and excernal: And cho indecdche
Fixures For chis pare are much less chan I could have wisted chem eo
be; (Tor che Book hach so much ouc run che Fxpence che Underez-
kers ac tirst proposed, chac they vould noc be broughe co have
larger Curs;) vec Phope the Descriptions in most Places, will prove
colerably accurace and Instructire; especially under such general
Words, as Blood, Circulation, Bones, Feart, Far, Fge Vision, Arteries,
Veins, Bile, Cympha, Chylification, Xc. in aII which, Phave consulced
the Bost AUFHOrS.
In Logick, Metaphysicks, Fchicks, Crammar, Rhetorick; XC. I tave
been deligredly Bore; sirine ulually che bare meanins only ot che
WVords and Perms oF AeE, wich one or uro lustances eo explain chem,
and illustrare chem.
In Fsistory and Chronology, vou have whac properly belones to
them as Ares; as an Acconne oF elie Civil Compuration ol Time; che
Orivinal and Reduction, one connocher, ol che several Aras, Fpochâs,
Periods, eC.
In Peraldry Thare eiven you the eneire Are oF Blazninq and Marstal-
line 2 Coat of Arms; and explained all che Ordinaries, Charges, Bearings, _C.
by Fioures: Buc hare Caid nochine of Families (any surcher then chat
such a Conc belones r0 such a Name) my Delion beins ouly eo explain
ehe Art andies Terms.