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XXXV. Notices respecting New Books. 



The Cyclop cedia ; or. Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, 

 and Lileralure, by Abraham Rees, D.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. 

 S. Amer. Sac; wilk the Assistance of eminent professional 

 Gentlemen : 4to, 39 volumes, besides 6 volumes of Plates, 

 and 1 of Atlas. Longman. 85 parts at 1/. in Bds. royal 36*. 



XT would be unpardonable in us to pass without notice the com- 

 pletion of a Work, which has occupied upwards of Eighteen 

 years in its publication j and which, far more than any other 

 single Work Avhich has preceded it, or that perhaps has been 

 contemporary with it, has extended the bounds of useful know- 

 ledge, by putting upon record, and making accessible to general 

 Readers, the improvements made and making, in nearly every 

 branch of Science and of the Arts, particularly all those of the 

 latter, which have Chemistry or Mechanics for their basis. The 

 numerous Plates (by Lowry) of Machines :.nd Apparatus for 

 effecting almost every kind of purpose, which are given in this 

 Work, have a minuteness of detail, and^ a degree of accuracy 

 in the drawing and Engraving, which are without a parallel in 

 any Work extant: the Articles referring to these Plates*, have 

 in general the merit, of having been written by Persons, either 

 extensively engaged in the Art or Manufacture treated of, or else 

 tiiey have been written by scientific Persons, who have, with 

 few exceptions, qualified themselves for the task, by minute in- 

 vestigations and inquiries, carried on in the most extensive of the 

 Laboratories, Work-shops, Manufactories and public Works, 

 vvhich so distinguish our Country, by consulting original Works, 

 and by researches in the learned Transactions and Scientific Jour- 

 nals, for records of the origin of inventions and improvements, 

 and of the progress and proceedings relating thereto; in the 

 furnishing of which materials, the Writer is glad to perceive, 

 that the " Philosophical Magazine" has held a distinguished 

 place in the estimation of numbers of the Cyclopcedia writers. 

 With respect to most of the other branches of Art, and the useful 

 or curious applications of Science and Literature, the Articles 

 thereon, have mostly been written by Men, eminent in their se- 

 veral Professions, or paths of Study, as will be perceived by pe- 

 rusing the following list, which we have prepared, from the ac- 



* It would be an act of injustice in the Writer, were he to omit mention- 

 inn-, the large share which Mr. Wilson Lowry has had, in procuring the 

 ft'^.sistauce of able scientific Men, as contributors to this Work ; seeing, tha* 

 Dr. Rces in liii Preface, has wholly omitted to mention this distinguished 

 Artist! 



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