Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition - Volume I, A-B.pdf/9

This page has been validated.

Encyclopædia Britannica;

OR, A

DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS and SCIENCES,

COMPILED UPON A NEW PLAN.

in which

The different Sciences and Arts are digeſted into
diſtinct Treatiſes or Syſtems;

and

The various Technical Terms, &c. are explained as they occur
in the order of the Alphabet.


illustrated with one hundred and sixty copperplates.


By a Society of GENTLEMEN in Scotland.


IN THREE VOLUMES.


VOL. I.



EDINBURGH:

Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar;
And ſold by C. Macfarquhar, at his Printing-office, Nicolſon-ſtreet.


M. DCC. LXXI.