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UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY
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ARTS and SCIENCES;^
CONTAINING
The DEFINITIONS of the TERMS,
And ACCOUNTS of
The T H I N G S fignify'd thereby,
In the feveral ARTS, Both LIBERAL and MECHANICAL,
And the feveral SCIENCES,
HUMAN and DIVINE:
The Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Ufes, of Things Natural and Artificial;
The Rife, Progrefs, and State of Things Ecclesiastical,
Civil, Military, and Commercial;
With the feveral Syftems, Sects, Opinions, &c. among Philofophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Phyficians, Antiquaries, Criticks, &c.
The Whole intended as a Courfe of Antient and Modern LEARNING, Compiled from the beft Authors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs,
Tranfaftions, Ephemerides, &c. in feveral Languages.
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Volume the Second.
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