Richard Blome, The Gentlemans Recreation (1686)
Date
1686
Author
Book title
The Gentlemans Recreation. In Two Parts. The First being an Encyclopedy Of The Arts and Sciences. To Wit, An Abridgment thereof, which (in a clear Method) Treats of the Doctrine, and General Parts of each Art, with Eliptical Tables, comprehending a Summary and General Division thereof; being a Translation from the most Authentick Authors, by Persons well Experienced therein. To Which Divers Sculptures, and Schemes, are added for the better Illustration, and Demonstration thereof. The Second Part, Treats of Horsmanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, and
Agriculture. With A Short Treatise of Cock-Fighting; for the Breeding, Dyetting, Ordering, Matching, and Fighting them. All Which Are Collected from the most Authentick Authors, and the many Gross Errors therein Corrected, with great Enlargements, made by those well Experienced in the said Recreations. And For the better Explanation thereof, great variety of useful Sculptures, as Nets, Traps, Engines, &c. are added for the Taking of Beasts, Fowl, and Fish; not hitherto Published by any
Publication place
London
Printer
S. Roycroft
Publisher
Richard Blome
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (about the first 100 pages: Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Bible
- cosmography and astrology
- forestry
- grammar
- hawking and hunting
- logic
- mathematics
- philosophy
- rhetoric
- surveying
Summary
A general encyclopedic work with thousands of definitions. There are at least two chapters explicitly about "terms": II, xxiv, 61-63 (falconry) and II, xxvi, 113-14 (forestry)
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: The Alphabet consists of these following Letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z; and all these Letters are written in greater or lesser Characters; and with the greater are generally begun all proper Names, every Sentence after a full Period, and each several Verse in Poetry. (p. 1)
Synecdoche, which we call Conception, and Intelligence is, when a part is taken for the whole; or on the contrary, the whole for a part. (p. 7)
Efficient is the cause by which any thing is effected, and hath a three-fold division, viz. First; It is either Procreant, or Conservant. Procreant is that which first effects any thing, and Conservant is that which maintains it in its first State. (p. 9)
METAPHYSICKS is a Science which contemplates Beings as Beings; that is to say, abstracted from all Matter. (p. 15)
Ignes Fatui, or Going Fires are of two Sorts, the grosser is commonly seen in Low Grounds, or Marshes, oft times making People mistake their way. (p. 37)
DIvision is nothing else but the Deducting a less Number from a greater, as oft as may be, and so finding at last the Number, by whose Vnites that less Number being repeated, makes a Number equal to the greater, or near to it. (p. 48)
A Planet from the Greek is termed a wandring Star, which moves in a Heaven by it self; but their various Motions do occasion them to be at a nearer distance sometimes, than at others. (p. 81)
sample: The Alphabet consists of these following Letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z; and all these Letters are written in greater or lesser Characters; and with the greater are generally begun all proper Names, every Sentence after a full Period, and each several Verse in Poetry. (p. 1)
Synecdoche, which we call Conception, and Intelligence is, when a part is taken for the whole; or on the contrary, the whole for a part. (p. 7)
Efficient is the cause by which any thing is effected, and hath a three-fold division, viz. First; It is either Procreant, or Conservant. Procreant is that which first effects any thing, and Conservant is that which maintains it in its first State. (p. 9)
METAPHYSICKS is a Science which contemplates Beings as Beings; that is to say, abstracted from all Matter. (p. 15)
Ignes Fatui, or Going Fires are of two Sorts, the grosser is commonly seen in Low Grounds, or Marshes, oft times making People mistake their way. (p. 37)
DIvision is nothing else but the Deducting a less Number from a greater, as oft as may be, and so finding at last the Number, by whose Vnites that less Number being repeated, makes a Number equal to the greater, or near to it. (p. 48)
A Planet from the Greek is termed a wandring Star, which moves in a Heaven by it self; but their various Motions do occasion them to be at a nearer distance sometimes, than at others. (p. 81)
Alston
III.i.201
Wing
B3213
