Authority Cited: Harris
Author name and dates: John Harris (1666-1719)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; microscope observations and mathematics; earliest English encyclopedia (Arts & Sciences); cited in SJ definitions
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 178 Harris cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 67 cites in vol. 2. A later edition of the Lexicon Technicum, such as the 1736 5th edition, appears to have been used by SJ, as the quote for barometer was not found in the early Lexicon editions, but was found also in an abridged Philosophical Transactions, 1733, which references a 1728 Phil. Trans. article by J.G. Scheuchzer. No editions of the Lexicon Technicum published between 1736 and the 1755 Dict. publication were identified. Thanks to Alexander Bocast for verifying that there were no LT editions after the 5th edition, and confirming that the 5th edition was used by SJ by researching the quote for frieze, which is now added in the list below. There appear to be no quotes from Lexicon Technicum under the letter "A." See also the Edmund Stone page. No additional Harris cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The approximately 69 citations sampled and noted below were principally from the letters "B," "C," "P," "Q," and "V."]
Author name and dates: John Harris (1666-1719)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; microscope observations and mathematics; earliest English encyclopedia (Arts & Sciences); cited in SJ definitions
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 178 Harris cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 67 cites in vol. 2. A later edition of the Lexicon Technicum, such as the 1736 5th edition, appears to have been used by SJ, as the quote for barometer was not found in the early Lexicon editions, but was found also in an abridged Philosophical Transactions, 1733, which references a 1728 Phil. Trans. article by J.G. Scheuchzer. No editions of the Lexicon Technicum published between 1736 and the 1755 Dict. publication were identified. Thanks to Alexander Bocast for verifying that there were no LT editions after the 5th edition, and confirming that the 5th edition was used by SJ by researching the quote for frieze, which is now added in the list below. There appear to be no quotes from Lexicon Technicum under the letter "A." See also the Edmund Stone page. No additional Harris cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The approximately 69 citations sampled and noted below were principally from the letters "B," "C," "P," "Q," and "V."]
- Description of the Globes: The description and uses of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, and of Collins's Pocket Quadrant 1720 (also 1703, 1747) ; armillary (p.2); [BKG Note: no additional quotes from this text were identified.]
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: ... In two volumes. By John Harris, ... The fifth edition. Now digested into one alphabet: with very considerable additions and improvements ... Illustrated with several additional copper-plates... 1736, London : printed for J. Walthoe, Mess. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, E. Symon [and 8 others] (1st ed. 1704-10); barometer (also noted by Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 153); basrion; beam; bend; berme; binocle; binomial; biovac; biquadrate; birth; boatswain; book-keeping; bottomry (SJ adds more than is in the 1736 Lexicon); bow; bowline/bowling; brails; branch (branches in text); breastfast; breasthooks; breastropes; brest; breve; brief; brigade major; buccelation; bulkhead; burr; burras; burrel; but (butt in text); butter of antimony; butter of tin; calotte; campaniform; camponniere; capreolate; carbunculation; carcass; carlings; cartouch; casemate; casern; catenarian; ... eccentricity; ... fermentation; frieze ... ischiatick (definition corrected without attribution in 1773 Dict.); ... parabola; paraboloid; parallelogram; parallelopiped; parameter; perigee/perigaem; perihelium (perihelion in text); planet; plinth; pneumaticks; predicament; pyramid; quadratick; quartile; realgar (realgal in text); ... volute. [BKG Note: all headword citations (definitions) identified as being in this title were cited only as Harris or Harr.]
- Harris (no work cited)