Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.

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An introduction to geography, astronomy, and dialling containing the most useful elements of the said sciences, adapted to the meanest capacity, by the description and uses of the terrestrial and c�lestial globes: with an introduction to chronology. The second edition. In which, besides many other great Additions, are about Twenty Paradoxes belonging to the Globes, intirely New. As also, The Construction and Uses of Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes, &c. By George Gordon.
Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]
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Dictionarium Britannicum or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. Containing Not only the Words, and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, Low and High Dutch, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. in Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetick, Astrology, Astronomy, Botanicks, Catoptricks, Chymistry, Chyromangy, Chirurgery, Confectionary, Cookery, Cosmography, Dialling, Dioptricks, Ethicks, Fishing, Fortification, Gardening, Gauging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Hawking, Heraldry, Horsemanship, Husbandry, Hydraulicks, Hydrography, Hydrostaticks, Law, Logick, Maritime and Military Affairs, Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Merchandize, Metaphysicks, Meteorology, Navigation, Opticks, Otacousticks, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physick, Physiognomy, Pyrotechny, Rhetorick, Sculpture, Staticks, Statuary, Surveying, Theology, and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases us'd in our antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, with their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. Collected by several hands, the mathematical part by G. Gordon, the botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd, with many thousand additions, by N. Bailey,.
Bailey, N (Nathan), d. 1742.Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]
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Remarks upon the Newtonian philosophy , as propos'd by Sir Isaac Newton, in his Principia philosophiæ naturalis; and by Dr. Gregory, in his Principia astronomiæ physicæ. Wherein the fallacies of the pretended mathematical demonstrations, by which those authors support that philosophy, are clearly laid open; and the philosophy it self fully proved to be false and absurd, both by Mathematical and Physical Demonstration. By George Gordon.
Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.Date: 1719
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De natura rerum quaestiones philosophicae . Authore Georgio Gordono.
Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
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An introduction to geography, astronomy, and dialling . Containing the most useful elements of the said sciences, adapted to the meanest capacity, by the description and uses of the terrestrial and celestial globes. With an introduction to chronology, by George Gordon.
Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]