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cyclopaedia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
cyclopaedia XVII. Clipped form of ENCYCLOPAEDIA (in Gr. form in the title of ‘Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissime κ...
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Encyclopedias
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...influential was Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts...was the sixteen-volume New American Cyclopaedia, edited by George Ripley and Charles...and continued as Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia until 1902. The development of American...
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Farey, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...There he wrote articles for the new Cyclopaedia of Abraham Rees and contributed many...Philosophical Magazine and Rees ’ s Cyclopaedia . By constantly urging the importance...x201D; in Rees ’ s Cyclopaedia (vol VIII). Farey ’ s investigation...
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Brooks, William Robert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 82 (1922), 246 – 247. Articles on him are in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography , V (1894), 197 – 198; and in Dictionary of American Biography , III (1929), 91...
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Dechales, Claude François Millet
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...33, p. 301; and Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary , I (London, 1815), 395 – 396; and The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , VIII (London, 1837), 343. William Schaaf
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Hill, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of the Royal Society (1751). In addition to his other activities Hill was a contributor to the supplement of Chambers Cyclopaedia (1753) and editor of the British Magazine (1740 – 1750). He was married twice, first to a Miss Travers and...
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Hudson, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...II. Secondary Literature. The most useful sources of inforamtion are articles by James Edward Smith in Abraham Rees, Cyclopaedia XVIII, and G. S. Boulger in Dictionary of National Biography , new ed., X, 155. J. Reynolds Green, A History of...
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Hutchinson, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...as “ ... the greatest voluntary expiration following the deepest inspiration ” (Todd ’ s Cyclopaedia [1849-1852], p. 1065). Hutchinson invented the spirometer in order to measure this volume of air. He was not the...
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Kater, Henry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...London, 1833), and III (London, 1837). The fullest biographical articles on Kater are in Dictionary of National Biography and Charles Knight ’ s The English Cyclopaedia , Biography, III (London, 1856. Harold Dorn
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Michael, Arthur
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...246 – 248; Dictionary of American Biography , supp. 3 (New York, 1973), 520 – 521; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography , XV (New York, 1916), 172; and W. T. Read, in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , 22...
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