EASY INTRODUCTION

TO THE

ARTS AND SCIENCES:

BEING A SHORT, BUT COMPRE ENSIVE

SYSTEM

OF

USEFUL AND POLITE LEARNING.
DIVIDED INTO LESSONS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS,

AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.

BY R. TURNER, JUN, LLD.

Late of Magdalen Hall, Oxford;

AUTHOR OF AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY, &C.

Ingenuas didiciffe fideliter artes
Emollit mores.

Afperitatis et invidiæ corrector et ira.

To have learned the liberal arts thoroughly, foftens the manners, and
operates as an excellent corrector of ill-nature, envy, and anger.
OVID. HOR.

THE FOURTEENTH EDITION,

With confiderable Additions and Improvements; particularly
AN ABRIDGEMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY,
With upwards of Twenty New Cuts ;

Sequel of Phyfics, or Natural Philofophy; the prefent State of
Electricity, Galvanism, &c. &c.

London;

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, G. WILKIE
AND J. ROBINSON, J. SCATCHERD, AND C. LETTERMAN,
J. WALKER, LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND
BROWN, C. LAW, J. MAWMAN, AND J. JOHNSON A

CO.

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PREFACE.

IT T was faid of one of the ancients-I think it was SOCRATES, or his difciple PLATOthat he brought Philofophy down from heaven to dwell among men upon earth,

THE fame may, in fome measure, be affirmed of all thofe who fuccessfully endeavour to render the ARTS and SCIENCES, which were formerly wrapped up in the fearned languages, and in technical terms, intelligible to the bulk of mankind, or to those who have not had the advantage of a liberal education.

SUCH was, no doubt, the defign of Dr. TURNER, in the prefent publication; and