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  • In particular may be mentioned: DE MORGAN, Motion of the Earth in English Cyclopaedia;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • "Cyclopaedia" (half done); (5) sundry memoirs on Science; (6) a regular

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Dr. Alexander (in Kitto's "Cyclopaedia" s.v. "God") has the following instructive remarks: --

    Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In today's GoogleBooks Metadata Misadventure, we have the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge classified under "Bibles."

    Somewhere, Newman is laughing 2010

  • Here are Google Books links to descriptions (with Greek or Latin examples) in The Metres of the Greeks and Romans, and in The Universal Cyclopaedia (published 1900) within Iambic Meter.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • And in 1728 Ephraim Chambers published Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences which contained entries for many technical and scientific words left out of other dictionaries.

    Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash 2008

  • "Encaustic Painting," in Chambers Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (London, 1784), 2: n.p. Vincenzo Requeno, Saggi sul ristabilmento dell'antica arte de'greci e romani pittori (Parma, 1784).

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Chambers Cyclopaedia: "Moment, Momentum, in mechanics, is the same with impetus."

    An Exchange on Adam Smith Avishai, Bernard 1978

  • Chambers 'Cyclopaedia (1778-88) narrowed allegory to exclude irony: “allegory imports a similitude be - tween the thing spoken and intended; irony a con - trariety between them.”

    IRONY NORMAN D. KNOX 1968

  • The Freemantle linkage, in modified form, appeared in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_ of 1819 (fig. 16), but it is doubtful whether even this would have been readily recognized as identical with the Evans linkage, because the connecting rod was at the opposite end of the working beam from the piston rod, in accordance with established usage, while in the Evans linkage the crank and connecting rod were at the same end of the beam.

    Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

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