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THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of inflected collects; it is not a COLLECT headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the deeper Latin or reconstructed ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
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.
“collects and refracts the Rays which strike upon it from all parts”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [240], right column, crystalline-lens passage; e-rara content image 2867304
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867304
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERcollect ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 88 ↗
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 FORMcollects
“collects and refracts the Rays which strike upon it from all parts”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [240], right column, crystalline-lens passage; e-rara content image 2867304
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of inflected collects in 1704. It does not establish a COLLECT headword, the earliest occurrence, 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