John Harris (c. 1666 – 7 September 1719) was an English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest. He is best known as the editor of the Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1704), the earliest of the English encyclopaedias; as the compiler of the Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels (1744), published under his name; and as the author of an unfinished county history of Kent. (From Wikipedia) More about John Harris:
| | Books by John Harris: Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (2 volumes; London: Printed for D. Brown et al., 1708-1710) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, Or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels (1705)
Additional books by John Harris in the extended shelves: Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady. (Printed by T. Wood for B. Cowse, 1719) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady: wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd. In a pleasant, easy, and familiar way. With a description of the famous instrument, call'd the orrery. (Printed for J. Horsfeild, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady : wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd; in a pleasant, easy, and familiar way. With a description of the famous instrument called the orrery (Printed for A. Bettesworth, and J. Batley, 1729), also by George Gordon (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady : wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd in a pleasant, easy and familiar way : with a description of the famous instrument called the orrery. (Printed for A. Bettesworth ... and J. Batley ..., 1729), also by George Gordon (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The atheistical objections against the being of a god, and his attributes : fairly considered and fully refuted in eight sermons. (London : Printed by J.L. for Richard Wilkin, 1698., 1698), also by Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The atheistical objections against the being of a God and his attributes fairly considered and fully refuted in eight sermons, preach'd in the cathedral-church of St. Paul, London, 1698 : being the seventh year of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The atheist's objection that we can have no idea of God refuted a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, February the 7th 1697/8 : being the second of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The atheist's objections against the immaterial nature of God, and incorporeal substances, refuted in two sermons preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, April 4th and May 2nd, 1698 : being the fourth and fifth lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris. (London : Printed by J.L. for Richard Wilkin, 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Centrifugal force and gravitation. 5 pt. (Montreal, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The circle and straight line (J. Lovell, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The Conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortés. (Museum of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado], 1980), also by W. H. Dilworth (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. : To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system (Printed for B. Cole and E. Cushee, 1763), also by Joseph Harris (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The description and use of the globes and the orrery; to which is prefix'd by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system (T. Wright and W. Wyeth, 1740), also by Joseph Harris (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Dialoghi astronomici, ne' quali un letterato spiega ad una dama in maniera facile la dottrina della afera, l'uso de'globi, e gli elementi dell'astronomia (S. Occhi, 1751), also by Francesco Vincislaeo Barkovich and Maupertuis (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The divine physician, prescribing rules for the prevention, and cure of most diseases, as well of the body, as the soul demonstrating by natural reason, and also divine and humane testimony, that, as vicious and irregular actions and affections prove often occasions of most bodily diseases, and shortness of life, so the contrary do conduce to the preservation of health, and prolongation of life : in two parts / by J.H ... ([London?] : Printed for George Rose ..., and by Nath. Brook, and Will. Whitwood ..., 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Elements of plain and spherical trigonometry; together with the principles of spherick geometry, and the several projections of the sphere in plano. The whole demonstrated and illustrated with useful cases and examples (Printed for D. Midwinter, 1706) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Immorality and pride, the great causes of atheism a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, January the 8th 1697/8 : the first of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: A letter to Dr. Tancred Robinson, in answer to some passages in his to Mr. VVotton, relating to Mr. Harris's remarks on some late papers, &c. ([London? : s.n., 1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Lexicon technicum: or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers, beginning with Hackluit ... and continued with others of note ... relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe or the islands thereof, to this present time ... also an appendix of the remarkable accidents at sea ... together with the invention and use of the magnet, and its variation, &c. (Printed for Thomas Bennet ..., John Nicholson ..., and Daniel Midwinter ..., 1705) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit ... together with such other histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, ... containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ... (Printed for T. Woodward [and 14 others], 1705) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit ... together with such other histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, ... containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ... (Printed for T. Osborne [and 17 others], 1705) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: The notion of a God neither from fear nor policy a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, March the 7th 1697/8 : being the third of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Political economy and science. (Print. by the Lovell Print. & Publ. Co., 1875) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Political economy : essays and reviews (W. Ridgway, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: A refutation of the atheistical notion of fate, or absolute necessity in a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, November the seventh, 1698 : being the eighth of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: A refutation of the objections against moral good and evil in a sermon preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, October the third, 1698 : being the seventh of the lecture for that year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by John Harris. (London : Printed by J.L. for Richard Wilkin, 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: A refutation of the objections against the attributes of God in general in a sermon preach'd at the cathedral-church of St. Paul, September the fifth, 1698 : being the sixth of the lecture for that year founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq. / by John Harris ... (London : Printed by J. L. for Richard Wilkin ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Short, but yet plain elements of geometry. Shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and other excellent geometricians...may be understood. (Printed for D. Midwinter [etc.], 1734), also by Ignace Gaston Pardies (page images at HathiTrust) Harris, John, 1667?-1719: Some propositions in geometry. In five parts. (Wertheimer, Lea and Co., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
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