Yoshimoto, Hideyuki (Author)
化学史研究 [Kagakushi kenkyū; Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
Volume: 41, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 20-36
The origin of John Harris' Lexicon Technicum was estimated as the first encyclopedia of arts and sciences. My purpose in this paper is to identify its origins. First I tried to place it in the history of enecyclopedias and found that many of his ideas were owed to his French predecessors, ie Thomas Corneille's Dictionaire des arts et des sciences (1694) I also looked and found that Harris had used many articles from secondary literatures. Harris hired amanuenses to copy and paster the many technical terms in medicine and chemisitry from Stephen Blankaart's Lexicon novum medicum Greco-Latinum (1690). He made use of one of the Appendices of John Ray's A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used, with ther significantions and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues, the one of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern countries (1674), that is "An account of preparing and and refining such minerals as are gotten in England." when he wrote down the articles "Silver" "tin" "iron" "vitroil" :minimum" "alum" and "salt" in the second volume (1710.) He copied and pasted many translation from Phil Trans not from the original journal but from John Lawthrop's collection of alchemical texts.
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