Authority Cited: Moxon
Author name and dates: Joseph Moxon (1627-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Chart, globe maker; first English Mathematical dict.; valuable printing insights from Delft; first tradesman in Royal Soc.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 99 Moxon cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 136 Moxon cites in Dict. vol. 2. A sample of about 60 headwords from Dict. vol. 1 and 70 from Dict. vol. 2 are listed below. One additional Moxon cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict.: draw. The edition used by SJ is unknown. All headwords examined were from the title below. See also A Proverb]
Author name and dates: Joseph Moxon (1627-1700)
BKG Bio-tweet: Chart, globe maker; first English Mathematical dict.; valuable printing insights from Delft; first tradesman in Royal Soc.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 99 Moxon cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 136 Moxon cites in Dict. vol. 2. A sample of about 60 headwords from Dict. vol. 1 and 70 from Dict. vol. 2 are listed below. One additional Moxon cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict.: draw. The edition used by SJ is unknown. All headwords examined were from the title below. See also A Proverb]
- Mechanick exercises: or the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the arts of smithing joinery carpentry turning bricklayery. To which is added Mechanick dyalling: Shewing how to draw a true Sun-Dyal on any given Plane, however Scituated; only with the help of a straight Ruler and a pair of Compasses, and without any Arithmetical Calculation. The third edition. By Joseph Moxon, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to the late King Charles. 1703, London: printed for Dan. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; addice (adz in text); anchor-smith; armpit; auger; backroom; barrel; basil; batement; batten; batter; beater; bevel; bickern; board; bore; borer; boss; brad; brasier; braze; brush; bulge; calipers; camber; ... dawk (2); declinator; dialist; doorcase; drag (2); drill (3); eben/ebon/ebony; edgetool; extuberance; featheredge; fenny; file; filecutter; fine; flake; flyer; footpace; fret; frontroom; gad; gauge; ... hammerhard; hances; handvice; ... ichnography; iron; jack; jamb; ... kerf; keystone; kiln; knee; landing; lath; let; letter; level; line; lintel; loam; lock; mandrel; metal; metalist; moulding; munnion; neal; orthography; party-wall; pentile; pike; pile; pitch; pit-man; pit-saw; plane (2); play; pliers; plumb; pricker; prickpunch; punch (2); putlog; quench; quotient; rabbet (3); rail; rammer; rank; rasp (2); razor; ... saw (2); saw-wrest; sawer; scrape; scratch; ... tanner; templet; tenon; tewel; ... uphand; upright (2); wabble; ward; warp; watchmaker; water; weld; well; whip; whipsaw; width; wind; wood; worm; wriggle.
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