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Harris, John. Lexicon technicum: Or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences.... London: Dan. Brown, Tim. Godwin, John Walthoe, & others, 1708 [& 1710]. Folio (40.2 cm, 15.875"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [449] ff.; 5 plts. (of 7 called for); illus. II: [316] ff. (lacking 2 ff. (Pp. 3–4)), 44 pp., [5] ff., 120 pp., [31] ff.; 7 plts.; illus. 
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first appearance in print of Newton’s only published work in chemistry, De natura acidorum. The plates include two detailed views of a ship of the line (the second of which gives an interior view, carefully labelled), a detailed view of the human circulation system, and a schematic for a barometer. The entries are also illustrated with numerous in-text woodcuts and engravings. The frontispiece is a fine conventional engraved portrait of Harris, by G. White after R. White. John Harris (1667?–1719) was a clergyman, mathematician, and topographer, as well as secretary of the Royal Society.
This second edition of vol. I exists in two states, with variant ESTC numbers: This one has a cancel title-page with the name of Mary Coggan substituted for that of Francis Coggan in the list of publishers. Harris issued a three-page proposal for this work in 1702, and the first edition, in one volume, appeared in 1704. This second edition of vol. I appeared 1708 and the first of vol II in 1710, the latter proclaiming in its introduction, “In this second volume . . . the matter is intirely new, and without any repetition . . . of any thing in the former . . . .”
The Lexicon technicum apparently proved popular, as it was reprinted a number of times, the last issue appearing in 1744.
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