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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.

In T W O VOLUME S. By E CHAMBERS Gent.

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Volume the Second.

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