A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern
containing, an account of the political state, and principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations in ancient and modern times their manners and customs, the local situation of cities, especially of such as have been distinguished by memorable events : with an abridgement of the fabulous history or mythology of the Greeks : to which is prefixed, an historical account of the progress and improvements of astronomy and geography, from the earliest periods to the time of Sir Isaac Newton : also a brief account of the principles of the Newtonian philosophy, occasionally compared with the opinions of the ancients, concerning the general and particular properties of matter, the air, heat and cold, light, and its effects, the laws of motion, the planetary system, &c. : with a short description of the component parts of the terraqueous globe, according to the notions of the ancients, and the more accurate discoveries of modern chemists : designed chiefly to connect the study of classical learning with that of general knowledge
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1794 - Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and Bell & Bradfute and W. Creech, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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English
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- Dictionaries
- Early works to 1800
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- A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern: containing, an account of the political state, and principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations in ancient and modern times their manners and customs, the local situation of cities, especially of such as have been distinguished by memorable events : with an abridgement of the fabulous history or mythology of the Greeks : to which is prefixed, an historical account of the progress and improvements of astronomy and geography, from the earliest periods to the time of Sir Isaac Newton : also a brief account of the principles of the Newtonian philosophy, occasionally compared with the opinions of the ancients, concerning the general and particular properties of matter, the air, heat and cold, light, and its effects, the laws of motion, the planetary system, &c. : with a short description of the component parts of the terraqueous globe, according to the notions of the ancients, and the more accurate discoveries of modern chemists : designed chiefly to connect the study of classical learning with that of general knowledge
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