A dictionary of mechanical science, arts, manufactures, and miscellaneous knowledge

Comprising the pure sciences of mathematics, geometry, arthimetic, algebra &c.; the mixed sciences of mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy; experimental philosophy; the fine arts; agriculture, and its implements; manufactures and their various processes; commerce and domestic economy; natural history; with biographical and historical notices of eminent men, who have adorned science by their inventions and discoveries. Illustrated with many hundred engravings

By Alexander Jamieson, LL.D.