A Dictionary of science, literature, and art [electronic resource]: comprising the history, description, and scientific principles of every branch of human knowledge; with the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use
A one-volume English-language reference dictionary of science, literature, and art compiled by chemist William Thomas Brande with Joseph Cauvin, issued in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1844 for general and student readers. The plates are small wood-engraved diagrams: orthographic projections, hyperbolas and construction lines, hatched joinery and machine sections, lettered and numbered throughout for reuse as technical line motifs.
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