Rees ed. 1802-20, Rees, Abraham
ed. 18[02]–20. The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts,
Sciences, and Literature, 45 vols, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme &
Brown [and 26 others]
CloseView the register entry >>Miller 1731Miller, Philip
1731. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and
Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden. As also, the Physick Garden,
Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard, According to the Practice of the Most
Experienc'd Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspers'd with the History of the
Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the Particular
Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in
Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and use of
Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers Proper for Gardeners; and of the
Origin, Causes and Nature of Meteors, and the Particular Influences of Air,
Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, According to the Best Natural
Philosophers, London: privately printed
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Arago 1823Arago, Jacques Etienne
Victor 1823. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World in the Uranie
and Physicienne Corvettes: Commanded by Captain Freycinet, During the Years
1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; on a Scientific Expedition Undertaken by Order of
the French Government. In a Series of Letters to a Friend ... To Which is
Prefixed, the Report Made to the Academy of Sciences, on the General Results of
the Expedition, London: Treuttel & Wurtz, Treuttal, jun. &
Richter
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Phillips 1824Phillips,
Henry 1824. Flora Historica; or, The Three Seasons of the British
Parterre Historically and Botanically Treated: With Observations on Planting,
to Secure a Regular Succession of Flowers, from the Commencement of Spring to
the End of Autumn. To which are Added, the Most Approved Methods of Cultivating
Bulbous and Other Plants, as Practised by the Most Celebrated Florists of
England, Holland, and France, 2 vols, London: E. Lloyd
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Napier 1614, Napier, John
1614. Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio, ejusque usus, in utraque
trigonometria, ut etiam in omni logistica mathematica, aamplissimi, facillimi,
& expeditissimi explicatio, Edinburgh: Andrea Hart
CloseView the register entry >>Briggs 1624, Briggs, Henry
1624. Arithmetica logarithmica, sive logarithmorum chiliades triginta, pro
numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000 et a 90,000 ad
100,000. Quorum ope multa perficiuntur arithmetica problemata et geometrica.
Hos numeros primus invenit clarissimus vir Iohannes Neperus baro Merchistonij.
Eos autem ex eiusdem sententia mutavit, eorumque ortum et usum illustravit
Henricus Briggius. Deus nobis usuream vitae dedit et ingenii, tanquam pecuniae,
nulla praestituta die, London: Gulielmus Iones
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Adriaan, ed. 1628. Arithmetica logarithmica, sive logarithmorum
chiliades centum, pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 100000.
Una cum canone triangulorum, seu tabula artificialium sinuum, tangentium &
secantium, ad radium 10, 00000,00000. & ad singula scrupula prima
quadrantis. Quibus novum traditur compendium, quo nullum nec admirabilius, nec
utilius solvendi pleraque problemata arithmetica & geometrica. Hos numeros
primus invenit Iohannes Neperus. Eos autem ex ejusdem sententia mutavit,
Eorumque artum & usum illustravit Henricus Briggius, 2nd edn, Gouda:
Petrus Rammasenius
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1633, Gellibrand,
Henry 1633. Trigonometria Britannica; sive, de doctrina
triangulorum libri duo. Quorum prior continet constructionem canonis sinuum,
tangentium & secantium, una cum logarithmis sinuum & tangentium ad
gradus & graduum centesimas & ad minuta & secunda centesimis
respondentia. A clarissimo doctissimo integerrimoque viro domino Henrico
Briggio, geometriae in celeberrima academia Oxoniensi Professore Saviliano
dignissimo, paulo ante inopinatam ipsius e terris emigrationem compositus.
Posterior vero usum sive applicationem canonis in resolutione triangulorum tam
planorum quam sphaericorum e geometricis fundamentis petita, calculo facillimo,
eximiisque ccmpendiis exhibet, Gouda: Petrus Rammasenius
CloseView the register entry >>Sherwin 1705[Sherwin,
Henry] ed.,1705. Mathematical tables ... viz. a Table of
Logarithms from 1 to 101000 ... Tables of Natural Sines, Tangents, and Secants,
with their Logarithms ... Tables of Natural Versed Sines and their Logarithms,
to Every Minute of the Quadrant. With their Construction and Use. By Mr.
Briggs, Dr. Wallis, Mr. Halley, Mr. Abr. Sharp ..., London: J. Seller and
C. Price
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Lines On a Young Gentleman, Who in the Space of Four Years (and As Yet
Under Fifteen,) Has Not Only Obtained Several Prizes, but Taken an Exalted Seat
in One of the First Schools in the Metropolis
These single-sentence notes on miscellaneous subjects include several
relating to scientific subjects, including: 'Æsculapius invented the
probe' and 'Chemical names of metals were first given to the heavenly
bodies'.
Dupuis 1824Dupuis, Joseph
1824. Journal of a Residence in Ashantee, Comprising Notes and Researches
Relative to the Gold Coast, and the Interior of Western Africa; Chiefly
Collected from Arabic Mss. and Information Communicated by the Moslems of
Guinea. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Origin and Causes of the Present
War, London: Henry Colburn
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Dupuis 1824Dupuis, Joseph
1824. Journal of a Residence in Ashantee, Comprising Notes and Researches
Relative to the Gold Coast, and the Interior of Western Africa; Chiefly
Collected from Arabic Mss. and Information Communicated by the Moslems of
Guinea. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Origin and Causes of the Present
War, London: Henry Colburn
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Bullock 1824Bullock,
William 1824. Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico:
Containing Remarks on the Present State of New Spain, its Natural Productions,
State of Society, Manufactures, Trade, Agriculture, and Antiquities,
&c., London: John Murray
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Newton 1707Newton, Isaac
1707. Arithmetica universalis: Sive de compositione et resolutione
arithmetica liber. Cui accessit haleiana æquationum radices arithmetice
invveniendi methodus. In Usum Juventutis Academicae, Cambridge: University
Press; London: Benj. Tooke
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Vieusseux 1824Vieusseux,
Andrea 1824. Italy and the Italians in the Nineteenth Century: A
View of the Civil, Political and Moral State of that Country, with a Sketch of
the History of Italy under the French; and a Treatise on Modern Italian
Literature, London: C. Knight
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Subjects:
Political Economy, Cultural Geography, Morality, Sex
Education, Cultural Geography, Race, Alchemy, Morality,
Religion
The narrator is the son of an 'eminent merchant in Bagdad' who has been
'instructed by the Magi in all the scientific and abstruse learning of the
east' (263). A wastrel, he has an allegorical dream in which water, which
represents life, is variously used. Some have the art of 'turning it into
gold'; others make 'a sort of menstruum of it to dissolve gold and the other
precious metals' (264).
According to the 'showman at
Exeter 'ChangeExeter Exchange—Royal Menagerie
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hippopotamus 'is a hamphibious animal that cannot live upon land and dies in
the water' (266). 'Astrology is to Astronomy what alchemy is to
chemistry, the ignorant parent of a learned offspring' (267).
One stanza reads: 'A quack sets up the doctor's trade, / But could he
use the sexton's spade / No better than his pills, / The man might toil from
morn to night, / And find his match with all his might / To bury half he
kills'.
The attention of the 'scientific experimentor' is directed to the portable
forge used by 'Siangalese' jewellers, as being potentially useful to him 'where
he wishes to excite a small fire, larger than can be produced by a common
blow-pipe, and he has not a forge at command'.
Mirror of Literature, 4 (1824), 309–10.
The Musk-Deer—Method of Obtaining Musk, Ambergris and Civet
Following an extract from Gulliver's Travels, which describes the
schemes of the members of the Academy of Lagado, the satirical poem proceeds to
portray various fantastic schemes which the poet suggests have been fostered by
the overflow of wealth in Britain. Among these are schemes for mines in South
America, of which it is stated: 'Giving them gold that's ready made, / We
wisely look to be repaid / By help of
WattWatt, James
(1736–1819)
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BoultonBoulton, Matthew
(1728–1809)
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Who from their mines, by patent pumps / Will raise up ore, and lumps, and dumps
/ Whence sovereigns may be molten!'. Plans to build bridges over and tunnels
under the River Thames are satirized, as is a company established to introduce
sea-water bathing in London. A new 'company for washing', run by men, is
derided as taking away the means 'By which our virtuous poor pursue / The path
of honest labour'. (315)
Speaking of the 'quantity of petrified marine substances which its internal
structure presents to the naturalist, the author observes: 'similar productions
have been discovered on the tops of many hills still higher and farther removed
from the sea than Roseberry; and yet perhaps no naturalist has hitherto
accounted satisfactorily for the phenomenon' (327).
Epidemiology, Disease, Death, Population, Medical Treatment,
Superstition
The article begins with the assertion that the various contagious diseases
which had affected Europe at different periods 'came, with very few exceptions,
from the east'. A footnote relates: 'The cholera morbus took its rise in Cochin
China, and has now advanced as far as the Euphrates' (348).
The poem introduces the observations of 'Old Thames' to
John L McAdamMcAdam, John Loudon
(1756–1836)
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respecting the detrimental effects of his road-building works near Blackfriars
in London. The river's concluding advice to McAdam is that he will 'find it an
Utopian toil / To mend the ways of London'.
An account of, and reflections on, the Canadian vessel 'ColumbusColumbus, ship CloseView the register entry >>'. When the vessel was
being built on the St Lawrence River, 'the American papers teemed with accounts
of her immense size, which were so exaggerated, that some persons thought the
great ship was like the sea serpent, a hoax' (354).
The writer regrets the renunciation of 'pleasing horrors' as a result of the
'modern mania for enlightening mankind and subjecting every thing to the test
of reason and philosophy' (362, 361). These remarks are applied to magic, to
'spirits or apparitions', and to 'animal monstrosities'. Of the last, the
writer muses: 'we occasionally exhume the bones of the mammoth or megatherium;
but we are miserably in want of a good, living, tangible, and horrible
monster'. The passage continues: 'The American sea-serpent will not be coaxed
into eye-sight of any thing more trust-worthy than a Yankee captain' and the
recently exhibited mermaid has proved to be an impostor. (362) The writer
considers the panic of the preceding summer concerning an epidemic hydrophobia,
and concludes by urging the public 'to exert themselves in the getting up of
some good stimulating horror, one that may interestingly fill the long columns
of our newspapers during the vacation of Parliament' (363).
Mirror of Literature, 4 (1824), 365–66.
Scientific Amusements. No. VIII. Optical Deceptions
Newton 1704, Newton, Isaac
1704. Opticks; or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflextions
and Colours of Lights. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of
Curvilinear Figures, London: Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford
CloseView the register entry >>Bélidor
1737–70Bélidor,
Bernard F de 1737–70. Architecture hydraulique; ou, l'Art
de conduire, d'élever et de ménager les eaux pour les
différens besoins de la vie, Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert
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Section: The Selector; or, Choice Extracts from New Works
Kitchiner
1824–25Kitchiner,
William 1824–25. The Economy of the Eyes: Precepts for the
Improvement and Preservation of the Sight. Plain Rules which Will Enable All to
Judge Exactly When, and What Spectacles are Best Calculated for their Eyes.
Observations on Opera Glasses and Theatres, and an Account of the Pancratic
Magnifier, for Double Stars, and Day Telescopes. Part II. Of Telescopes. Being
the Result of Thirty Years' Experiments with Fifty-One Telescopes , of from One
to Nine Inches in Diameter, in the Possession of William Kitchiner. To which
are Added, an Abstract of the Practical Parts of Sir W. Herschel's Writings on
Telescopes and Double Stars, etc. Some Observations Thereon, and Original
Letters from Eminent Opticians, 2 vols, London: Hurst, Robinson &
Co.
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Staunton 1797Staunton,
George 1797. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of
Great Britain to the Emperor of China, Including Cursory Observations Made, and
Information Obtained, in Travelling through that Ancient Empire, and a Small
Part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a Relation of a Voyage Undertaken on the
Occasion by His Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the Ship Hindostan, in the East
India Company's Service, to the Yellow Sea, and the Gulf of Pekin; as well as
of their Return to Europe; with Notices of the Several Places where they
Stopped in their Way Out and Home; [...] Taken Chiefly from the Papers of His
Excellency the Earl of Macartney, [...] His Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of
the Expedition, 2 vols, London: G. Nicol
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Phrenology, Authorship, Scientific Practitioners, Medical Treatment,
Temperance
Of the arrival of
George CanningCanning, George
(1770–1827)
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the narrator reports: 'He had a fine head certainly—SpurzheimSpurzheim, Johann Christoph
(1776–1832)
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not deny it [...] but as I am not minister of the interior, "further
this deponent knoweth not"' (376). The narrator enquires of one of the literary
'lions': 'Who is he that handles the ladle so scientifically and answers so
courteously, the many troublesome calls upon him?' and receives the reply:
'That's
Doctor
K.Kitchiner, William
(1778–1827)
ODNB CloseView the register entry >>, to whom optics, and music, and astronomy, and gastronomy are all
equally familiar, who is giving a practical lecture to his neighbours on the
"art of exhausting and emptying a tureen of turtle soup".' (377). The narrator
reported: 'I had provided myself with a case of lancets, in the certainty of
having my smattering of surgical skill called in to the aid of some suffocating
gourmand', but he had found it unnecessary because of the 'temperance and
decorum' of the guests (378).
[Tytler] ed.
1778–83, [Tytler,
James], ed. 1778–83. Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A
Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, &c. on a Plan Entirely New; by Which, the
Different Sciences and Arts are Digested into the Form of Distinct Treatises or
Systems, Comprehending the History, Theory, and Practice, of Each, According to
the Latest Discoveries and Improvements; and Full Explanations Given of the
Various Detached Parts of Knowledge, Whether Relating to Natural and Artificial
Objects, or to Matters Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, Commercial, &c.,
Together with a Description of all Countries, Cities ... a General History,
Ancient and Modern, of the Different Empires,Kingdoms and States, and an
Account of the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, from the
Earliest Ages Down to the Present Times [...], 2nd edn, 10 vols, Edinburgh:
J. Balfour and Co. [and 9 others]
CloseView the register entry >>[Macfarquhar] and [Gleig] eds.
1797[Macfarquhar, Colin] and [Gleig, George] eds 1797. Encyclopædia
Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature:
Constructed on a Plan, by Which the Different Sciences and Arts are Digested
into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems, Comprehending the History,
Theory, and Practice, of Each, According to the Latest Discoveries and
Improvements ... Compiled from the Writings of the Best Authors, in Several
Languages, the Most Approved Dictionaries, as well of General Science as of its
Particular Branches, the Transactions, Journals, and Memoirs, of Learned
Societies, both at Home and Abroad, the MS. Lectures of Eminent Professors on
Different Sciences, and a Variety of Original Materials, Furnished by an
Extensive Correspondence, 3rd edn, 18 vols, Edinburgh: A. Bell and C.
Macfarquhar
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Mirror of Literature, 4 (1824), 381–84.
The Novelist. No. LXV. Rothelan.—A Romance of the English
Histories. By John Galt, Esq.
The advent of the Black Death is heralded by portents and prodigies. The
progress of the plague, which is narrated in some detail, causes Sir Amias
Crosby, the anti-hero of the narrative, to renounce his previous perjury.
Mirror of Literature, 4 (1824), 384.
On the Marriage of a Tailor's Daughter with a Barber's Boy
'The tailor's daughter took the barber's boy / To be the partner of her
grief and joy. / What force the power of Nature can control, / For still the
needle turns towards the pole.'
The article opens by heralding the findings of the 'new science of geology'
(385), before narrating in detail the events of the earthquake in Lisbon in
1755.
Baines
1824–25Baines,
Edward 1824–25. History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the
County Palatine of Lancaster: With a Variety of Commercial & Statistical
Information, 2 vols, Liverpool: Wm. Wales & Co.; London: Longman,
Hurst, & Co.
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Guest 1823Guest, Richard
1823. A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture: With a Disproval of
the Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of its Ingenious
Machinery, Manchester: E. Thomson [and 3 others]
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Baines
1824–25Baines,
Edward 1824–25. History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the
County Palatine of Lancaster: With a Variety of Commercial & Statistical
Information, 2 vols, Liverpool: Wm. Wales & Co.; London: Longman,
Hurst, & Co.
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The notice of the contents of
Friendship's OfferingFriendship's Offering
(1824–44)
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a lengthy description of a tale by
Maria
EdgeworthEdgeworth, Maria
(1768–1849)
ODNB CloseView the register entry >> entitled the 'Mental Thermometer' (409–11). The
mental thermometer of the tale is a real instrument which measures on a scale
of happiness and misery. It is broken when it comes into the hands of a
metaphysician wishing to perfect his theory of the human mind, the liquor
rising to 'the point of perfect felicity' with extreme violence
(411).
[3] Address to the Mermaid, Lately Exhibited in London
Subjects:
Natural History, Exhibitions, Oceanography
This extracted poem, signed
Richard RyanRyan, Richard
(1796–1849)
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addresses the mermaid and asks her to tell of 'The deeps and things proud
Science pines to see' (414).
A gentleman reported to the meeting on the progress of gentility in Gower
Street, London. He observed of the daughters of some of the householders that
'Mr. Mac AdamMcAdam, John Loudon
(1756–1836)
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contracting to mud them and dust them in the latest fashion' (426). The report
of the committee included the information that some individuals in the east end
of London had been seen to greet each other in 'a mutual soft exclamation, in
which the usual health inquiry was Mac-Adamized into "Addy do"' (427).
Beaumont 1705Beaumont,
John 1705. An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise
of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices: Containing
an Account of the Genii or Familiar Spirits, Both Good and Bad, that are Said
to Attend Men in this Life, and What Sensible Perceptions Some Persons Have Had
of Them (Particularly the Author's Own Experience for Many Years). Also of
Appearances of Spirits after Death, Divine Dreams, Divinations, Second Sighted
Persons, &c; Likewise the Power of Witches and the Reality of Other Magical
Operations, Clearly Asserted. With a Refutation of Dr. Bekker's World
Bewitch'd; and other Authors that have Opposed the Belief of them, London:
D. Browne [and 4 others]
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Ellis 1774, Ellis, John 1774.
An Historical Account of Coffee: With an Engraving, and Botanical
Description of the Tree. To which are Added Sundry Papers Relative to its
Culture and Use, as an Article of Diet and of Commerce, London: Edward and
Charles Dilly
CloseView the register entry >>Forsyth 1824Forsyth, J. S.
1824. The Natural and Medical Dieteticon; or, Practical Rules for Eating,
Drinking, and Preserving Health, London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.
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