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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 49
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies the ALGORITHM headword and definition in John Harris's 1704 volume; it is not claimed as the earliest surviving English occurrence.
Present-Day English1704probable
algorithm
The e-rara object record and searchable scan locate John Harris's dictionary definition of algorithm.
“ALGORITHM, sometimes called Logistica Numeralis, is the Sum of the Principal Rules of Numeral Computation.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- e-rara image 55, right column, entry ALGORITHM; content image 2867119
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
WORD DOSSIERalgorithm ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 96 ↗
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 FORMALGORITHM
“ALGORITHM, sometimes called Logistica Numeralis, is the Summ of the Principal Rules of Numeral Computation.”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- e-rara image 55, right column, ALGORITHM entry, content image 2867119
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies the headword and opening definition in the 1704 printed volume. It does not establish the earliest surviving English occurrence.
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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