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 encyclopaedia of arts and sciences issued in London in 1763 by a self-styled Society of Gentlemen, with plates engraved by Thomas Jefferys and Charles Grignion for general readers. The plates crowd geometric diagrams, orbital schemes, optical ray paths, polygons and polyhedra, and small workshop machines onto single sheets, offering fine line engraving, lettered keys, and compact technical figures.
