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18 Encyclopaedia; or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature 1798

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            ENCYCLOPzED IA;

                               O R, A


DICTIONARY
                                OF


           ARTS, SCIENCES,



     MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE;

                  ConffruEted on a PLAN,
                             BY WHICH

            THE   DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
                     .Are digefted into the FORM of diftint

 TREATISES OR SYSTEMS,
                           COMPREHENDING

    THE   HISTORY, THEORY, and PRACTICE, of each,
             According to the Lateft Difcoveries and Improvements;

                  AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE

  VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE,
                          WHETHER RELATING TO
      NATURAL  and ARTIFICIAL Objeffs, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
                  CIVIL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &C.
Including ELUCIDATIONS of the moft important Topics relative to RELIGION, MORALS, MANNERS,
                       and the OECONOAlY of LIFE*
                           TOGETHER WITH
     A DESCRIPTION Of all the Countries, Cities, principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &c.
                          throughout. the WORLD;
  A General HISTORY, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States;
                                AND
           An Account of the LIVES of the molk Eminent Perfons in every Nation,
                  from the earlieft iges down to the prefent times.

Compiled from the writings of the heft authors in feveral languages; the moft approved Didionaries, as well of general fcience as of it,
   particular branches; the Tranfaffions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Ledlures of Eminent
      Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnifhed by an Extenfive Correfpondence.
      THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES, GREATLr IMPROVED.

    ILLUSTRATED WITH  FIVE HUNDRED  AND FORTY-TWO  COPPERPLATES.
                 V 0 L.  XVIII.        STR-    ZYM
                   INDOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.

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