The new royal cyclopaedia, and encyclopaedia

Or, complete, modern and universal dictionary of arts and sciences. On an entire new and improved plan, and including all the modern improvements and latest discoveries on the various subjects. Containing a new, full, complete, general, accurate, and copious digest and display of the whole theory and practice of the liberal and mechanic arts; also the whole circle of the sciences, human and divine. Wherin all the respective sciences are properly arranged into general and complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises: Likewise, all the the various detached parts of knowledge, alphabetically arranged, critically illustrated, and very copiously explained in the most clear and satisfactory manner, according to the best and most respectable authorities. Comprising a complete, regular, and general course of ancient and modern literature, from the very earliest ages of the world, down to the present time. Including all the latest discoveries and newest improvements made in the various branches of the arts and sciences, particularly in acoustics, aerology, aerostation, agriculture, alchemy, algebra, altimetry, amphibiology, analytics, anatomy, anemography, architecture, arithmetic, astrology, astronomy, belles-lettres, book-keeping, botany, brachygraphy, brontology, building, carpentry, catoptrics, chemistry, chronology, commerce, conchology, conics, cosmography, criticism, designing, dialling, dioptrics, drawing, electricity, elocution, engineering, engraving, entomology, ethics, farriery, fencing, financing, fluxions, fortification, gardening, guaging, geography, geometry, glas-making, grammar, gunnery, handicrafts, harmonics, heraldry, history, horsemanship, husbandry, hydraulics, hydrography, hydrostatics, ichtyology, laws and customs, levelling, logic, logimetry, magnetism, manegery, manufactures, maritime affairs, masonry, mathematics, mechanics, mensuration, mercantile business, merchandise, metallurgy, metaphysics, meteorology, microscopial discoveries, military matters, mineralogy, modelling, music, mythology, navigation, natural history, nautical matters, optics, oratory, ornithology, painting, perspective, pharmacy, philosophy, phlebotomy, physic, physiology, phytology, planometrie, pneumatics, poetry, projectiles, pyrotechny, recreations, religion, rhetoric, rites and ceremonies, sculpture, series and statics, statuary, stereometry, surgery, surveying, tactics, theatricals, theology, trades and arts, trigonometry, vegetation, zoology, &c., &c., &c. The whole entirely freed from the many errors, obscurities, and superstuities of other works of the kind. Adopting this new and improved plan, this work includes a complete circle of the arts and sciences; and forms a more methodical, intelligent, and complete repository of general, and universal knowledge, than any other encyclopaedia, cyclopaedia, or dictionary, hitherto published, in the english language

Illustrated with upwards of 150 very large superb copper-plates, accurately descriptive of all the numerous and various important subjects to which they refer. In three large elegant volumes. By George Selby Howard, LL.D. and F.R.S. Assisted by many gentlemen of distinguished learning and abilities, in the various branches of the arts and sciences. The mathematical, nautical, astronomical and geographical parts, &c., revised by John Bettesworth, of the Naval academy, Chelsea. The historical, chronological, heraldic, and antique departments, inspected by Henry Boswell, F.R.A.S. The philosophical, critical, poetical, theological, musical, and other scientific subjects, revised and corrected by Felix Stonehouse, D.D. and others