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Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- DOI
- 10.3931/e-rara-9778
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- EXTERNAL RECORD
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 92GRADE Asupports
Science originally meant knowledge.
Before the modern natural-science center, science could mean knowledge or an organized branch of learning. A directly inspected 1704 witness still prints that broader institutional sense.
*skei-
*skei- → scīre → sciens → scientia → science / cience → science / cience → science → science
Image [812], left column, SYSTEM entry, “System of Philosophy”; e-rara content image 2867876Directly witnesses Science meaning an organized branch of knowledge in Harris’s 1704 English dictionary.
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 363supportsestablished
science → science / cience
Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle English science / cience stabilizes as Early Modern science.
- MEANING
- Knowledge and learning remain broad while an organized branch or body of knowledge becomes a salient application.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · John Harris
Image [812], left column, SYSTEM entry, “System of Philosophy”; e-rara content image 2867876Directly witnesses Science meaning an organized branch of knowledge in Harris’s 1704 English dictionary.
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WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
algorithmINSPECTED
algorithm
The e-rara object record and searchable scan locate John Harris's dictionary definition of algorithm.
OPEN WITNESS 49 ↗algebraINSPECTED
algebra
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints ALGEBRA as a headword and identifies it as an analytic art concerned with equations.
OPEN WITNESS 90 ↗decimalINSPECTED
decimal
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints DECIMAL in the head phrase DECIMAL Fraction and begins its mathematical definition.
OPEN WITNESS 91 ↗calculateINSPECTED
calculate
The CHIMES entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses calculate in instructions about clock-chime numbers.
OPEN WITNESS 92 ↗muscleINSPECTED
muscle
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints MUSCLE as a headword and defines its role in voluntary animal motion.
OPEN WITNESS 93 ↗etymologyINSPECTED
etymology
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints ETYMOLOGY as a headword and defines it as the part of grammar concerned with words’ origins and true signification.
OPEN WITNESS 94 ↗logicINSPECTED
logic
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints the historical English headword LOGICK and opens by calling it the art of right thinking.
OPEN WITNESS 95 ↗collectINSPECTED
collect
A passage about the crystalline lens in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses the inflected English form collects while describing how the lens gathers and refracts rays.
OPEN WITNESS 96 ↗scienceINSPECTED
science
The SYSTEM entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses Science for an organized branch of knowledge when defining a system of philosophy.
OPEN WITNESS 97 ↗salaryINSPECTED
salary
A banking-exchange passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses Salary for the banker’s compensation.
OPEN WITNESS 98 ↗intelligenceINSPECTED
intelligence
The PAPER-OFFICE entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum includes Letters of Intelligence among official papers communicated to the King’s Council.
OPEN WITNESS 99 ↗hospitalINSPECTED
hospital
John Harris’s NOSOCOMIUM entry uses Hospital for an institution where poor sick people are attended and, if possible, cured.
OPEN WITNESS 100 ↗lectureINSPECTED
lecture
A passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum cites a Lecture by Nehemiah Grew about varieties of taste read before the Royal Society.
OPEN WITNESS 101 ↗DecemberINSPECTED
December
A bibliographic note in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum names December while pointing readers to the December 1682 Acta Eruditorum.
OPEN WITNESS 102 ↗selectINSPECTED
select
John Harris’s NOTES in Musick entry describes a fixed group of six select syllables formerly used to distinguish degrees of sound.
OPEN WITNESS 103 ↗legalINSPECTED
legal
John Harris’s FEE-FARM entry uses Legal to mark the specifically legal sense of the term.
OPEN WITNESS 104 ↗checkINSPECTED
check
A tide passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses check as a verb meaning restrain or impede.
OPEN WITNESS 105 ↗050
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HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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