The history of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences: particularly the great branches of commerce, navigation, and plantation, in all parts of the known world.
Mechanical exercises; or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning. Containing a full description of the tools belonging to each branch of business; and copious directions for their use. With an explanation of the terms used in each art; and an introduction to practical geometry. Illustrated by thirty-nine copper plates.
The laboratory, or, School of arts : containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures : highly useful to gilders, jewelers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general, and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials