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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies the MUSCLE headword and opening definition in Harris’s 1704 English dictionary; it is not claimed as the earliest English occurrence or as proof of the historical mouse metaphor.
Present-Day English1704established
muscle
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints MUSCLE as a headword and defines its role in voluntary animal motion.
“MUSCLE, the chief Instrument of Voluntary Motion in an Animal Body.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [563], left column, entry MUSCLE; e-rara content image 2867627
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867627
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERmuscle ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 118 ↗
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 FORMMUSCLE
“MUSCLE, the chief Instrument of Voluntary Motion in an Animal Body.”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [563], left column, entry MUSCLE; e-rara content image 2867627
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies the MUSCLE headword and opening definition in this 1704 English dictionary. It does not establish the earliest English occurrence or prove the historical mouse metaphor.
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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