| Description | Subtitle: Or, complete, modern and universal dictionary of the arts and sciences. On an entirely new and improved plan, and including all the modern improvements and latest discoveries on various subjects. Containing a new, full, complete, general accurate, and copious digest and display of the whole theory and practice of the liberal and mechanical arts; also the whole circle of the sciences, human and divine. Wherein all the respective sciences are properly arranged into general and complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises: likewise, all the various detached parts of knowledge, alphabetically arranged, critically illustrated, and very copiously explained, in the most clear and satisfactory manner, according to the best and most respectable authorities. Comprising a complete, regular, and general course of ancient and modern literature, from the very earliest ages of the world, down to the present time. |