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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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

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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0018?run=74