A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages
A four-volume English encyclopedia of arts and sciences compiled by a "Society of Gentlemen" and printed in London in 1763, with copperplates engraved by Thomas Jefferys for general readers seeking practical and technical knowledge. The plates combine lettered geometrical diagrams, eclipse and orbit schemes, hatched drawings of instruments, thermometers, and hygrometers, offering designers fine-line technical figures and keyed annotation for scientific ornament.
