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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 102
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of December as a month name; it is not a DECEMBER headword, is not claimed as the earliest English occurrence, and does not prove the Roman tenth-to-twelfth-month history or deeper ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
December
A bibliographic note in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum names December while pointing readers to the December 1682 Acta Eruditorum.
“In the Acta Eruditorum for December, 1682. there is an Universal Method for drawing Tangents to all Curves”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [816], left column, note above TANGENT; e-rara content image 2867880
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867880
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERDecember ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 191 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMDecember
“In the Acta Eruditorum for December, 1682. there is an Universal Method for drawing Tangents to all Curves”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [816], left column, note above TANGENT; e-rara content image 2867880
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of December as a month name in 1704. It does not establish a DECEMBER headword, the earliest English occurrence, the Roman tenth-to-twelfth-month history, or the deeper ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704