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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 97
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of Science in the branch-of-knowledge sense; it is not a SCIENCE headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the French, Latin, or proposed reconstructed ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
science
The SYSTEM entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses Science for an organized branch of knowledge when defining a system of philosophy.
“A System of Philosophy, is a Regular Collection of the Principles and Parts of that Science into one Body”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [812], left column, SYSTEM entry, “System of Philosophy”; e-rara content image 2867876
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867876
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERscience ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 392 ↗
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 FORMScience
“A System of Philosophy, is a Regular Collection of the Principles and Parts of that Science into one Body”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [812], left column, SYSTEM entry, “System of Philosophy”; e-rara content image 2867876
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of Science for an organized branch of knowledge in 1704. It does not establish a SCIENCE 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