“Lexicons covering specific sciences, e.g., chemistry and medicine, had begun to appear from the sixteenth century.” (Yeo, 22 n10) But Harris’s take on the genre differed from such predecessors as Captain John Smith’s Sea-Mans Grammar (1626, with reissues in 1627, 1636, 1652, 1653, 1691, 1692, 1699), Thomas Blount’s Glossographia, or, A Dictionary, Interpreting. 1 of Ephraim Chambers’ two-volume Cyclopædia, or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728).Ĭhambers’s new Cyclopaedia brand adapted both concept and content from John Harris’s Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (1704–10). Part II: Chambers’ two Cyclopædia articles on memoryīELOW: Letterpress title-page for vol. To view all 20 of this Web page’s hover notes in a second-window aside (where they are clustered together like end-notes), click/tap here. To learn more about DHTML hover-box technology and possible display problems with it (especially if you are using Google Chrome or Opera for Web browsing and/or viewing this Web page on a mobile device), visit ’s “A Note on Site Design” page. N O T E : There are 20 “hover” boxes used on this Web page. Mnemonic Tables.īy Ephraim Chambers (1st edn.), rev. Chambers's Cyclopædia: or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences.
Compiled from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks, &c: the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning. Containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify’d thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine: the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial: the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial: with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c. “Memory” and “Mnemonic Tables.” Articles from Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopædia, both the original 2-volume edition of 1728, and the 2-volume Supplement, by George Lewis Scott et al., of 1753.ġst edition: Cyclopædia, or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences. An original digital edition (HTML transcript)
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