List of Rees's Cyclopædia articles
The Rees Project, was instigated by Professor
The Cyclopædia lacks a classified index volume. In 1820, Philosophical Magazine analysed the work's contents by half-volume publication dates, as proper priority had not been given to serially published scientific discoveries.[7] The following are notable topics covered by the Cyclopædia (containing over 15 columns).
Notes: In the original Cyclopædia, the letters I and J are treated as identical, as are U and V, following ancient Latin conventions; each pair forms one sequence in the alphabetical order of the articles. Two-year dating of volumes indicates separate publication dates for half-volumes. Contributors' names have been attributed based on the 1820 analysis.[7]
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Volume 1
- A – Amaranthides Vol 1, 1802
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Abyssinia | Geography | 23.3 | |
Academy | Miscellaneous | 17.5 | |
Aerostation | Natural Philosophy | 27.2 | |
Aetna | Geography | 26.2 | |
Affinity | Chemistry | 26.9 | |
Africa | Geography | 18.3 | |
Air |
Physics | 19.4 | |
Alexander the Great | Biography | 23.4 | |
Algebra | Algebra | 22.8 | |
Algiers | Geography | 23.0 | |
Alleppo |
Geography | 19.5 | |
Allium | Botany | 18.6 | William Wood[8] |
Volume 2
- Amarantus – Arteriotomy Vol 2, 1802/3
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
America |
History | 30.7 | |
Amphitheatre | Architecture | 15.0 | |
Amputation | Surgery | 31.2 | |
Anatomy, veterinary |
Comparative anatomy | 35.0 | |
Anatomy | Anatomy | 29.0 | |
Aneurism | Surgery | 18.9 | |
Annuities | Annuities | 16.0 | William Morgan |
Antimony | Chemistry | 21.0 | |
Arabia |
Geography | 27.3 | |
Arsenic | Chemistry | 20.6 |
Volume 3
- Artery – Battersea Vol 3, 1803/4
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Asia | Geography | 25.1 | |
Astronomy | Astronomy | 18.3 | |
Athens | Geography | 80.5 | |
Atmosphere | Natural Philosophy | 38.1 | Abraham Rees |
Banks | Commerce | 24.3 | |
Barometer | Meteorology | 68.2 | |
Basso-Relievo |
Sculpture | 15.6 | John Flaxman[9] |
Battalion | War | 64.2 |
Volume 4
- Battery – Bookbinding Vol 4, 1804/5
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Battle | War | 22.2 | |
Bees |
Natural History | 26.3 | |
Bible | Scripture | 78.5 | |
Bird | Ornithology | 125.8 | Edward Donovan |
Birman Empire |
Geography | 23.3 | |
Bishop | Ecclesiastical History | 21.3 | |
Bleaching |
Technology | 25.4 | Charles Taylor |
Blindness |
Medicine | 17.3 | |
Blowing & Blastfurnaces |
Technology | 45.2 | David Mushet |
Blowing Machine |
Machine | 29.1 | David Mushet |
Boat | Naval & Marine | 23.6 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Book | Misc | 25.2 |
Volume 5
- Book-keeping – Calvart Vol 5, 1805
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Book-keeping |
Business | 50.8 | |
Bounty | Commerce | 15.8 | |
Brain | Anatomy | 18.9 | |
Bridge | Architecture | 23.0 | |
Calculus | Mathematics | 24.6 |
Volume 6
- Calvary – Castra Vol 6, 1806
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Camelus |
Zoology | 18.6 | |
Camp | War | 18.2 | |
Campanula | Botany | 18.7 | |
Canal | Civil Engineering | 289.0 | John Farey, Sr. ; the longest article in the work
|
Cancer | Zoology | 32.0 | |
Cannon | Artillery - War | 60.4 | |
Canon |
Religion | 21.8 | |
Carabus | Entomology | 22.0 | Edward Donovan |
Carduus | Botany | 19.7 | William Wood[8] |
Carex | Botany | 37.1 | William Wood[8] |
Carbon | Chemistry | 18.5 | |
Carriage | Artillery - War | 26.6 | James Glenie |
Carthaginian | Ancient history | 36.7 |
Volume 7
- Castramentation – Chronology Vol 7, 1806/7
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Castrametation |
War | 18.6 | James Glenie? |
Cataract | Surgery | 23.5 | |
Catherine II | Biography | 28.0 | |
Cattle | Agriculture | 38.9 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Cause |
Philosophy | 15.1 | |
Center | Mechanics | 49.1 | |
Centaurea | Botany | 20.5 | William Wood[8] |
Cerambyx | Entomology | 37.2 | Edward Donovan |
Cervix | Zoology | 16.0 | |
Ceylon |
Geography | 33.6 | |
Chance | Probabilities | 44.0 | |
Chimney | Architecture | 14.8 | |
China | Geography | 65.0 | |
Chronology | Chronology | 110.0 |
Volume 8
- Chronometer – Colliseum Vol 8, 1807
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Chronometer | Horology | 112.7 | William Pearson[11] |
Church | Religion | 38.0 | |
Cicero | Biography | 20.6 | |
Cimex |
Entomology | 15.5 | Edward Donovan |
Cipher | Cryptography | 59.9 | William Blair |
Circle | Astronomy | 70.5 | William Pearson[11] |
Circulation of the blood |
Anatomy | 24.2 | |
Cistus | Botany | 20.2 | William Wood[8] |
Classification | Natural history | 75.0 | |
Climate | Geography | 26.6 | |
Clock | Horology | 118.6 | William Pearson[11] |
Clover | Agriculture | 19.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Coal | Natural history | 75.0 | John Farey, Sr.
|
Coast | Geography | 15.2 | |
Cochin China |
Geography | 16.1 | |
Coin | Commerce | 23. | Patrick Kelly |
Cold | Physiology | 25.0 |
Volume 9
- Collision – Corne Vol 9, 1807/8
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Colony | Government | 29.4 | |
Colour-making in Calico Printing |
Natural Philosophy | 30.7 | James Thomson |
Coluber |
Zoology | 36.7 | |
Columba | Orinithology | 14.9 | Edward Donovan |
Comet | Astronomy | 35.8 | |
Commerce | Commerce | 25.1 | |
Common | Agriculture | 27.3 | |
Compass | Natural Philosophy | 16.9 | |
Compensation-Balance |
Horology | 31.1 | William Pearson[11] |
Composition in painting |
Painting | 15.6 | John Flaxman[9] |
Conchology | Conchology | 64.1 | Edward Donovan |
Concord | Music | 16.9 | John Farey, Sr.
|
Conferva |
Botany | 16.8 | William Wood[8] |
Conic Sections |
Mathematics | 32.0 | James Ivory |
Construction | Military | 65.3 | James Glenie |
Convolvulus | Botany | 28.0 | William Wood[8] |
Conyza | Botany | 15.5 | William Wood[8] |
Cook, James |
Biography | 43.9 | |
Copper | Mineralogy | 29.7 | |
Corn Laws | Rural Economy | 63.1 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Volume 10
- Cornea – Czyrcassy Vol 10, 1808
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Cottage farm |
Rural Economy | 15.0 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Cottage | Rural economy | 18.7 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Cotton manufacture |
Commerce | 35.2 | Manufacture of cotton"[3]
|
Court | Law | 37.2 | |
Cranium |
Anatomy | 83.7 | |
Croisade (Crusade) |
History | 15.0 | |
Crops, course of |
Agriculture | 50.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Croton | Botany | 17.6 | William Wood[8] |
Crystals |
Chemistry | 16.0 | |
Cucumis | Gardening | 15.2 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Curculio | Entomology | 19.2 | Edward Donovan |
Curve | Geometry | 16.2 | James Ivory |
Cutlery | Technology | 15.4 | Charles Sylvester |
Cutting-engine |
Mechanics | 18.4 | William Pearson[11] |
Cycle | Miscellaneous | 21.8 |
Volume 11
- D – Dissimilitude Vol 11, 1808
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Daemon | Antiquity | 12.5 | |
Dairying |
Rural economy | 38.6 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
David | Biography | 18.0 | |
Death | Physiology | 18.6 | |
Declination of a Compass |
Natural philosophy | 14.5 | |
Declination | Astronomy | 85.0 | |
Degeneration | Physiology | 35.9 | |
Degree | Astronomy | 118.2 | |
Deluge | Natural history | 24.8 | |
Denmark | Geography | 23.2 | |
Diagonal motion |
Technology | 21.7 | John Duncan[12] |
Dial | Horology | 30.4 | William Pearson[11] |
Digestion | Physiology | 28.2 | |
Diophantine | Algebra | 18.8 | John Pond |
Dipping in Calico Printing |
Dyeing | 17.5 | James Thomson |
Volume 12
- Dissimulation – Eloane Vol 12, 1809
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Dog | Zoology | 26.3 | |
Dramatic machinery |
Theatre | 15.0 | |
Dropsy |
Medicine | 17.6 | |
Druids |
Miscellaneous | 18.6 | |
Drunkenness |
Physiology | 15.2 | |
Dublin | Geography | 16.0 | |
Duck | Ornithology | 21.0 | Edward Donovan |
Dyeing | Dyeing (history of) | 15.9 | Charles Taylor |
Dynamics |
Physics | 19.4 | Tiberius Cavallo |
Ear | Anatomy | 43.8 | |
Earth | Astronomy | 71.0 | |
Earthquake | Natural history | 28.4 | |
Eclipse | Astronomy | 57.9 | |
Egypt | Geography | 33.0 | |
Electrical experiments |
Electricity | 35.9 | |
Electrical machine |
Electricity | 16.2 |
Volume 13
- Elocution – Extremities Vol 13, 1809
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Embankment | Agriculture | 26.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Embryo | Anatomy | 23.0 | |
Enamelling |
Arts - Technological | 15.8 | Edmund Turrell |
England | Geography | 38.8 | |
Engraving | Arts - Technological | 48.0 | |
Entomology | Entomology | 116.0 | Signed D, for Donovan |
Equations |
Algebra | 51.0 | |
Equatorial instrument |
Astronomy | 68.0 | William Pearson[11] |
Escapement | Horology | 47.7 | William Pearson[11] |
Exchange | Commerce | 29.5 | Patrick Kelly |
Extremities | Anatomy | 79.0 |
Volume 14
- Extrinsic – Food Vol 14, 1810
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Eye | Anatomy | 67.6 | |
Falco |
Ornithology | 15.0 | Edward Donovan |
Falling stones |
Natural history | 16.0 | |
Fallowing of land |
Agriculture | 16.9 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Farm | Agriculture | 40.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Felis | Zoology | 27.8 | |
Fence | Agriculture | 54.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Fever | Medicine | 120.8 | |
Ficus | Botany | 17.7 | James Edward Smith |
Fish, anatomy of | Comparative anatomy | 136.5 | |
Fishery | Miscellaneous | 32.4 | |
Fistula | Surgery | 31.6 | |
Fluxions & methods of fluxions |
Analysis | 26.9 |
Volume 15
- Food – Generation Vol 15, 1810
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Force | Mechanics | 39.7 | John Pond |
Foundry | Technology | 16.3 | |
Fracture | Surgery | 71.2 | |
Fragaria | Botany | 15.5 | James Edward Smith |
France | History | 42.6 | |
French school of engraving |
Arts | 224.7 | John Landseer |
Function | Analysis | 51.5 | |
Fungus | Surgery | 18.8 | |
Furnace | Technology | 16.2 | |
Furs |
Commerce | 26.3 | |
Galvanism | Electricity | 17.2 | Charles Sylvester |
Gangrene | Medicine | 16.1 | |
Gate | Rural Economy | 18.9 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Gems, engraving of |
Arts | 24.7 | Charles Konig John Flaxman?[9] |
Gems | Miscellaneous | 18.6 | Charles Konig |
Volume 16
- Generation – Gretna Green Vol 16, 1810–11
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Generation (Reproduction) | Physiology | 131.5 | |
Geometry | Geometry | 26.0 | |
Georgian planet (Uranus) | Astronomy | 33.3 | |
German School of Engraving |
Arts | 68.2 | John Landseer |
Germany | Geography | 24.6 | |
Gland | Anatomy | 32.5 | |
Glass | Chemistry | 43.0 | |
Gonorrhoea |
Surgery | 22.9 | |
Gout | Medicine | 24.0 | |
Graduation of instruments |
Astronomy | 34.2 | |
Graecia |
Ancient geography | 18.4 | |
Grammar | Grammar | 59.0 | |
Grass |
Agriculture | 20.0 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Grassland | Rural Economy | 19.4 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Gravitation |
Natural Philosophy | 29.0 | |
Grazing | Agriculture | 25.4 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Greek language | Language | 22.0 |
Volume 17
- Gretry – Hibe Vol 17, 1811
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Gryllus | Entomology | 25.1 | |
Gun-shot wounds |
Surgery | 24.3 | |
Gunnery | Warfare | 19.4 | James Glenie |
Gunpowder | Manufactures | 18.2 | |
Gutta Serena |
Surgery | 24.0 | |
Haemorrhage |
Surgery | 26.0 | |
Heart | Anatomy | 87.0 | |
Heat | Natural philosophy | 22.4 | |
Helix | Conchology | 24.8 | Edward Donovan |
Hernia | Surgery | 81.6 | |
Heron | Ornithology | 15.0 | Edward Donovan |
Volume 18
- Hibiscus – Increment Vol 18, 1811
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Hindoostan |
Geography | 23.0 | |
History | History | 16.3 | |
Hop | Agriculture | 17.3 | |
Horse | Menage | 31.0 | |
Hospital | Miscellaneous | 27.6 | |
Hunting | Sports & Games | 25.6 | Delabere Pritchett Blaine |
Husbandry |
Rural economy | 38.1 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Hydrocele | Surgery | 22.8 | |
Hydrocephalus | Medicine | 17.4 | |
Hygrometry |
Natural philosophy | 16.0 | |
Hydrophobia | Medicine | 17.4 | |
Hyperbolic logarithms |
Mathematics | 45.0 | |
Jews | History | 17.8 | |
Imagination, Influence of, on the corporeal Frame |
Medicine | 20.9 | Thomas Bateman |
Volume 19
- Increments – Kilmes Vol 19, 1811
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Increments, Method of |
Analysis | 20.5 | |
Incubation |
Comparative anatomy | 43.0 | |
Infants, diseases of |
Medicine | 26.0 | |
Inoculation | Surgery | 23.4 | |
Insects |
Entomology | 67.1 | Edward Donovan |
Insurance on lives |
Insurance | 15.1 | |
Integuments |
Anatomy | 39.5 | |
Intellectual education |
Education | 47.2 | |
Interest | Commerce | 21.3 | |
Jones, Sir W. |
Biography | 15.3 | |
Ireland | Geography | 31.0 | |
Iron | Technology | 38.8 | David Mushet |
Isoperimetry |
Mathematics | 18.4 | |
Italian school of engraving |
Arts | 127 | John Landseer |
Kidney | Anatomy | 25.5 |
Volume 20
- Kiln – Light Vol 20, 1812
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mid-wifery | 16.5 | Robert Bland |
Lacedaeminians |
Antiquity | 22.8 | |
Language | Miscellaneous | 39.2 | |
Larynx | Anatomy | 24.2 | |
Latitude | Astronomy | 22.7 | |
Lava | Mineralogy | 16.3 | |
Laying-down to Grass |
Agriculture | 16.6 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Leaf | Botany | 15.9 | James Edward Smith |
Leprosy | Medicine | 22.7 | |
Lichenes |
Botany | 16.5 | James Edward Smith |
Life-annuities |
Insurance | 38.9 | William Morgan |
Life | Physiology | 32.0 | |
Light, exhibition of by living animals |
Zoology | 22.6 | |
Light | Natural philosophy | 40.8 |
Volume 21
- Light-house – Machinery Vol 21, 1812
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Lime | Mineralogy | 47.2 | |
Linen | Manufactures | 24.1 | |
Lithotomy | Medicine | 33.7 | |
Liver | Anatomy | 26.0 | |
Lizard | Natural History | 20.1 | |
Logarithms |
Mathematics | 53.0 | |
London | Geography | 62.9 | |
Longitude | Geography | 111.7 | |
Low countries, engraving of |
Art | 191.8 | John Landseer |
Lues Veneria |
Medicine | 54.7 | |
Lungs |
Anatomy | 48.1 | |
Luxation |
Medicine | 44.6 | |
Machine | Mechanics | 15.7 | |
Machinery |
Mechanics | 43.3 |
Volume 22
- Machinery – Mattheson Vol 22, 1812
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Machinery for manufacturing ships' blocks |
Manufactures | 36.1 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Magnet | Natural philosophy | 28.1 | |
Mammalia, anatomy of |
Comparative anatomy | 171.9 | |
Man | Natural History | 111.7 | |
Manufacture of cotton |
Manufactures | 54.7 | Cotton manufacture"[3]
|
Manure | Agriculture | 47.2 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Marble | Mineralogy | 30.5 | |
Mars | Astronomy | 55.0 | |
Materia Medica |
Materia Medica | 46.6 | |
Mathematics | Mathematics | 20.1 |
Volume 23
- Matthew – Monsoon Vol 23, 1812/3
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Medals |
Commerce | 43.6 | |
Medicine | Medicine | 43.6 | |
Membrane | Anatomy | 35.5 | |
Mercury | Astronomy | 26.0 | |
Mercury | Chemistry | 21.0 | |
Meridional parts |
Navigation | 16.4 | Andrew Mackay |
Metastasio |
Biography | 17.8 | Charles Burney |
Mexico | Geography | 31.7 | |
Microscope | Miscellaneous | 29.9 | |
Mill-work |
Technology | 16.8 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Mill |
Technology | 15.0 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Milton, J. |
Biography | 15.0 | |
Mineralogy | Mineralogy | 16.8 | |
Mining, history of |
Technology | 24.8 | John Taylor |
Money | Commerce | 35.5 |
Volume 24
- Monster – Newton-in-the-Willows Vol 24, 1813
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Monster | Anatomy | 28.9 | |
Moon | Astronomy | 40.4 | |
Moory Earth |
Agriculture | 18.8 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Moral Education |
Education | 65.9 | |
Morocco | Geography | 21.5 | |
Mortality, bill of |
Law | 16.0 | |
Mossy Land | Agriculture | 16.1 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Motacilla |
Ornithology | 18.7 | |
Motion |
Physics | 15.7 | |
Mountain | Geography | 22.6 | |
Musca | Entomology | 28.6 | |
Muscle | Anatomy | 80.6 | |
Nervous system | Anatomy | 106.2 |
Volume 25
- Newtonian Philosophy – Ozunusze Vol 25, 1813
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Norfolk | Geography | 20.0 | |
Norwich | Geography | 19.1 | |
Notation | Arithmetic | 19.1 | |
Number | Arithmetic | 18.0 | |
Numbers, planetary | Astronomy | 40.3 | William Pearson[11] |
Oak-tree |
Agriculture | 16.1 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Observatory | Astronomy | 22.6 | William Pearson[11] |
Ogham characters |
Cryptology | 16.2 | William Blair |
Ophthalmy |
Medicine | 20.6 | |
Organ | Music | 22.1 | |
Orkney Islands |
Geography | 15.5 | |
Orrery | Astronomy | 63.3 | William Pearson[11] |
Ossian | Poetry | 16.8 | |
Otaheite |
Geography | 15.8 | |
Oxford | Geography | 42.8 |
Volume 26
- P – Perturbation Vol 26, 1813/4
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Painting, the art of |
Art | 69.2 | |
Paper | Manufactures | 47.0 | |
Papilio | Entomology | 53.8 | Edward Donovan |
Paring & Burning |
Agriculture | 22.7 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Paris | Geography | 15.3 | |
Passiflora | Botany | 16.5 | James Edward Smith |
Passion | Philosophy | 17.3 | |
Pelargonium | Botany | 15.5 | James Edward Smith |
Pendulum | Dynamics | 25.2 | |
Persia |
Geography | 20.7 | |
Perspective | Art | 56.3 | Peter Nicholson |
Volume 27
- Pertussis – Poetics Vol 27, 1814
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Peru | Geography | 22.8 | |
Petrifications |
Natural history | 16.5 | |
Phalaena | Entomology | 26.8 | |
Philosophy | Philosophy | 215.7 | |
Phosphorus | Chemistry | 25.9 | |
Physical education | Education | 44.5 | |
Picture |
Arts | 15.8 | |
Plague | Medicine | 24.0 | |
Planetarium | Astronomy | 28.3 | William Pearson |
Planetary machines, an historical account of |
Astronomy | 30.2 | William Pearson |
Planet | Astronomy | 19.5 | |
Plantation | Rural economy | 15.5 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Plants |
Botany | 71.2 | James Edward Smith |
Platonism | Philosophy | 17.8 | |
Plough | Agriculture | 20.5 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Volume 28
- Poetry – Punjoor Vol 28, 1814
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Poetry | Poetry | 16.9 | |
Political economy | Political economy | 35.5 | |
Pond | Agriculture | 16.3 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Poor | Miscellaneous | 18.6 | |
Pope | Religion | 15.8 | |
Population | Political economy | 18.5 | |
Porcelain | Miscellaneous | 29.0 | Charles Sylvester |
Potato | Agriculture | 40.7 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Prime number | Arithmetic | 51.0 | |
Printing | Printing | 35.5 | |
Projection | Mathematics | 42.2 | Peter Nicholson |
Prunus | Gardening | 24.9 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Volume 29
- Punishment – Repton Vol 29, 1814/5
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Punishment | Law | 17.5 | |
Putrefaction | Chemistry | 16.0 | |
Pyrus |
Gardening | 34.8 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Pytrotechny |
Manufactures | 16.8 | |
Quadrant |
Astronomy | 25.0 | |
Quantity | Grammar | 48.2 | |
Quarry | Agriculture | 22.4 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Quinces |
Botany | 27.0 | James Edward Smith |
Ranunculus | Botany | 23.9 | James Edward Smith |
Ratio | Arithmetic | 19.5 | |
Refraction | Optics | 37.4 | |
Religion | Religion | 16.4 | |
Reptiles |
Comparative anatomy | 154.5 |
Volume 30
- Republic – Rzemien Vol 30, 1815
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Resistance of fluids |
Mechanics | 16.0 | |
Respiration | Physiology | 43.6 | |
Revenue | Government | 18.4 | |
Revolution | Politics | 21.9 | |
Rigging | Naval matters | 28.7 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Road | Rural Economy | 31.6 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Rock | Geology | 17.6 | |
Rome, Roman Empire, etc |
History | 43.3 | |
Roof | Architecture | 24.1 | |
Root | Arithmetic | 27.9 | |
Rope-making |
Manufactures | 35.4 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Rosa | Botany | 21.9 | James Edward Smith |
Rotation | Mechanics | 18.1 | |
Rubus | Botany | 17.5 | James Edward Smith |
Russia | Geography | 56.7 |
Volume 31
- S – Scotium Vol 31, 1815
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Sail and sail-making |
Naval affairs | 51.3 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Sailing | Naval affairs | 27.2 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Salix |
Botany | 43.1 | James Edward Smith |
Salt | Manufactures | 27.7 | |
Salt-Brine Springs |
Rural economy | 15.5 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Salt, as manure |
Agriculture | 18.7 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Salts |
Chemistry | 30.3 | |
Satellites |
Astronomy | 157.2 | William Pearson |
Saturn | Astronomy | 46.1 | |
Saxifraga | Botany | 16.2 | James Edward Smith |
Saxons | History | 16.4 | |
Scarabaeus | Entomology | 20.8 | Edward Donovan |
Schools |
Education | 22.0 |
Volume 32
- Scotland – Sindy Vol 32, 1815/6
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Scotland | Geology | 60.8 | |
Sculpture | Arts | 74.8 | |
Scurvy | Medicine | 16.8 | |
Series | Analysis | 32.5 | |
Shakespeare, Wm |
Biography | 20.5 | |
Sheep | Agriculture | 119.2 | Robert Bakewell |
Ship-building |
Naval affairs | 161.3 | George Glover; possibly pseudonymous[10] |
Silene | Botany | 16.1 | James Edward Smith |
Silver | Mining | 18.5 |
Volume 33
- Sines – Starboard Vol 33, 1816
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Sines |
Mathematics | 81.0 | |
Slave trade | Miscellaneous | 36.1 | |
Small-pox |
Medicine | 26.0 | |
Soil | Agriculture | 41.2 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Spain | Geography | 26.1 | |
Speculum | Astronomy | 14.9 | William Pearson[11] |
Spine | Anatomy | 21.9 | |
Springs | Natural History | 48.0 | |
Standard |
Commerce | 15.6 | Patrick Kelly |
Star | Astronomy | 65.4 |
Volume 34
- Starch – Szydlow Vol 34, 1816
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Steam engine | Technology | 175.2 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Stone |
Natural history | 28.6 | |
Stove | Building | 16.2 | |
Strata |
Geology | 36.8 | |
Strength of materials | Mechanics | 36.9 | Peter Barlow |
Sugar-cane |
Miscellaneous | 32.0 | |
Surface-Drain |
Agriculture | 25.4 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Surgery | Surgery | 28.5 | |
Survivorship |
Annuities | 23.6 | |
Swine |
Agriculture | 19.6 | Richard Watson Dickson |
System | Mineralogy | 22.0 |
Volume 35
- T – Toleration Vol 35, 1817
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Tax | Government | 15.0 | |
Teeth, diseases of |
Physiology | 20.0 | |
Telegraph |
Miscellaneous | 22.2 | |
Telescope | Astronomy | 161.8 | William Pearson[11] |
Theodolite | Surveying | 16.1 | William Pearson.[11] Plate X for "Surveying - Theodolite" is an 1811 survey of Pearson's estate in Mortlake, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which became Temple Grove School.[13] |
Thermometer | Natural philosophy | 42.8 | |
Tides |
Natural philosophy | 24.1 | |
Timber |
Rural economy | 34.8 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Tithes, as Obstructions to Agriculture |
Agriculture | 17.0 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Volume 36
- Tolerium – Vermelho Vol 36, 1817
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Trifolium |
Botany | 28.5 | James Edward Smith |
Trigonometry | Triginometry | 27.4 | |
Tumours |
Surgery | 18.6 | |
Turning | Manufactures | 19.6 | |
Turnip | Agriculture | 26.9 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Variation of magnetic needle |
Naval affairs | 25.0 | |
Veins, metallic and mineral |
Geology | 16.1 | |
Venus | Astronomer | 23.7 |
Volume 37
- Vermes – Waterloo Vol 37, 1817/8
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Vermes | Anatomy | 87.5 | |
Veronica | Botany | 25.0 | James Edward Smith |
Versification |
Poetry | 53.5 | Henry Parker |
Viola | Botany | 24.0 | James Edward Smith |
Vitis | Gardening | 24.4 | Richard Watson Dickson? |
Ulcer | Surgery | 30.5 | |
Union | Government | 32.3 | |
United States | Geography | 23.5 | |
Volcano | Geology | 51.0 | |
Urethra, strictures |
Medicine | 20.0 | |
Urinary calculi |
Surgery | 15.0 | |
Urine, incontinence |
Surgery | 32.0 | |
Urtica | Botany | 18.4 | James Edward Smith |
Watches |
Horology | 33.8 | William Pearson |
Water | Geography | 20.7 |
Volume 38
- Water – Wzetin Vol 38, 1818
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Waters, Natural |
Chemistry | 17.2 | |
Water, Raising of |
Manufactures | 201.5 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Watering of land |
Agriculture | 22.4 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Watson, Richard | Biography | 18.3 | |
Weaving | Manufactures | 28.0 | John Duncan |
Weed | Agriculture | 27.9 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Weight | Physics | 21.3 | |
Westminster | Geography | 21.7 | |
Wheat | Agriculture | 25.6 | Richard Watson Dickson |
Wheel | Manufactures | 29.2 | |
White-swelling |
Surgery | 15.4 | |
Wind-mill | Manufactures | 14.6 | John Farey, Jr.
|
Wind | Meteorology | 20.3 | |
Wine | Manufactures | 28.9 | |
Wollen manufacture |
Manufactures | 75.8 | Robert Bakewell |
Wool | Manufactures | 30.7 | Robert Bakewell |
Worsted manufacture |
Manufactures | 20.1 | Robert Bakewell |
Wounds |
Surgery | 98.7 |
Volume 39
- X – Zytomiers with Addenda and Corrigenda Vol 39, 1818–20
Article | Classification | Columns | Contributor/Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Zenith | Astronomy | 21.1 | |
Anemone | Botany | 17.0 | James Edward Smith |
Crystallography | Crystallography | 23.0 | |
Mineralogy | Mineralogy | 74.4 | |
Printing, Calico |
Manufactures | 18.7 | James Thomson |
Quarantine | Medicine | 20.0 |
See also
- List of long biographical articles on Rees's Cyclopaedia
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