being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus : with familiar explanations, and an attempt to establish significant english terms : the whole interspersed with critical remarks

with the use of the globes, the art of dialing and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses

explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves

in three parts

to which is prefixed, a discourse on publick magnificence with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education: concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans