A new royal and universal dictionary of arts and sciences

Or, complete system of human knowledge. Containing not only all the various improvements that have been made by the learned and ingenious in every part of Europe to the present times, but also a very great variety of useful discoveries which have been communicated to the authors of this work by gentlemen of distinguished abilities, whereby every difficulty attending the study of the arts and sciences is distinctly cleared, and the whole explained in the most easy and intelligent manner