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Excerpt from Recent Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Being a Supplement to His Dictionary
IN laying this Supplement to my Dictionary of Arts. Manufactures, and Mines, before the world, while I gratefully acknowledge the indulgence with which that work has been received, may I be permitted to advert very briey to some of my present endeavors to render it less undeserving of public favor, though, after all my efforts, it will by no means realize either my own wishes and intentions, or the expectations of all my readers?
To investigate thoroughly any single branch of art, we should examine it in its origin, objects, connexion with kindred arts, its progressive advancement, latest improved state, and theoretical perfection. The general principles on which it is founded, whether belonging to the mechanical, the physical, the chemical sci snees, or to natural history, should be fully expounded, and tested by an applica tion to its practical working on the great scale. The maximum effect of the ma chinery which it employs, and the maximum product of the chemical mixtures and operations which it involves, should in every case be calculated and compared with the actual results.
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