THE BRITISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, OR DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. COMPRISING AN ACCURATE AND POPULAR VIEW OF THE PRESENT IMPROVED STATE OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Author and Proprietor of the Philosophical Journal, and various other Chemical, Philosophical, and ILLUSTRATED WITH UPWARDS OF 150 ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS, BY MESSRS. LOWRY AND SCOTT. VOL. I. A....B. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, Goswell Street; FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. JOHNSON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; A. STRAHAN; T. PAYNE; J. STOCKDALE; SCATCHERD 1809. |