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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 92
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual English use of calculate in 1704 inside the CHIMES entry; it is not a CALCULATE headword and is not claimed as the earliest occurrence.
Present-Day English1704established
calculate
The CHIMES entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses calculate in instructions about clock-chime numbers.
“CHIMES of any Clock; How to calculate Numbers for them, and to fit and divide the Chime Barrel: See in Watch-work.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [161], right column, CHIMES entry; e-rara content image 2867225
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867225
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERcalculate ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 107 ↗
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 FORMcalculate
“CHIMES of any Clock; How to calculate Numbers for them, and to fit and divide the Chime Barrel: See in Watch-work.”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [161], right column, CHIMES entry; e-rara content image 2867225
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual English use of calculate in 1704. It does not establish a CALCULATE headword or the earliest 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