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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, Sefts, 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,

Tranfactions, Ephemerides, &c. in feveral Languages.

In T W O VOLUMES. By E CHAMBERS Gent.

Floriferis tit apes in faltibus omnia libant, Omnia nos — L v c r e t.

Volume the First.

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