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Author Charles Rollin 2090 Paul Rapin de Thoyras 254 Nathaniel Hooke 184 Robert South 111 Robert Moss 110 Royal Society (Great Britain) 103 Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 90 James Thomson 89 John Nicholl 84 Sampson Letsome 84 Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83 Samuel Clarke 73 John Sharp 70 Robert Smith 68 John Ray 67 William Warburton 61 Francis Atterbury 60 Jean Alphonse Turrettini 60 Samuel Shuckford 60 Cornelius Tacitus 58 Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 58 William Derham 58 Andrew Baxter 54 Jacques Saurin 53 James Foster 53 Livy 53 Alexander Cruden 47 Elizabeth Singer Rowe 47 Philip Doddridge 46 James Home 45 Daniel Neal 43 William King 42 Stephen Hales 41 Claude Fleury 40 Thomas Rowe 37 Benjamin Hoadly 33 M. l’abbé Antoine Banier 33 Roger Cotes 32 Matthew Bacon 30 Nathaniel Lardner 30 François Gayot de Pitaval 29 Thomas Morgan 28 Browne Langrish 27 David Hume 26 Thomas Shaw 26 James Anderson 25 Isaac Watts 24 Bernard de Fontenelle 22 Joseph Addison 22 William Hawkins 22 William Crawford 21 Antonio de Solis 20 Viscount Robert Molesworth 19 Pierre Bayle 18 Francesco Guicciardini 17 Julius Caesar 17 Richard Glover 17 Saint John Chrysostom 17 Samuel Butler 17 Frederik Ruysch 16 John Chapman 16 Sir Isaac Newton 16 François Catrou 15 Bernard Forest de Belidor 15 Gilbert Burnet 15 Pierre Julien Rouillé 15 Carlo Sigonio 14 Hugo Grotius 14 Marquis d' Argens 14 Pawlet St. John 14 Peter King 1st Baron King 14 Herman Boerhaave 13 Torquato Tasso 13 William Wollaston 13 Abraham Mears 12 Flavius Josephus 12 William Whiston 12 Albertus Seba 11 Peter Browne Bishop of Cork and Ross 11 Antonio Francesco Gori 10 Archibald Campbell 10 Freiherr von Christian Wolff 10 Isaac de Beausobre 10 Daniel Whitby 9 Elizabeth Blackwell 9 John Gay 9 Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont 9 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9 René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur 9 Sir Robert Sibbald 9 Anthony Blackwall 8 Duncan Stewart M. A. 8 John Boswell 8 John Burton 8 Ludovico Antonio Muratori 8 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 8 Georg Ernst Stahl 7 Imperatorska︠i︡a akademī︠i︡a nauk (Russia) 7 Johann Juncker 7 Dante Alighieri 6
Book Work Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 1111 Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium [Charles Rollin] 806 History of England [Paul Rapin de Thoyras] 254 Scots Magazine 185 Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 184 Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres 171 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 116 Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions [Robert South] 111 Sermons and Discourses on Practical Subjects [Robert Moss] 110 Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103 Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion [Abridgement] 95 Medical Essays and Observations [Philosophical Society of Edinburgh] 90 Works of James Thomson 89 Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion [Collection] 84 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76 Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 71 Eighteen Sermons Preached on Several Occasions [John Sharp] 70 Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages 63 Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principes of a Religious Deist 61 Cogitationes et Dissertationes Theologicae 60 Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected 60 Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions [Francis Atterbury] 60 Sermons on Several Occasions [Francis Atterbury] 59 Vie de Marianne 58 Works of Tacitus 58 Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul 54 Discours Historiques, Critiques, Théologiques, et Moraux, sur les Événemens les plus Mémorables du Vieux, et du Nouveau Testament 53 History of Rome [Livy] 53 Memoirs of the Royal Society; Being a New Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions 53 Sermons on the Following Subjects [James Foster] 53 Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament 47 Family Expositor 46 Scripture History of the Jews 45 History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 43 Essay on the Origin of Evil 42 Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God 40 Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs Elizabeth Rowe 37 Compleat System of Opticks 36 Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History 33 Works of Samuel Clarke 33 Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures by Roger Cotes ... with Notes By his Successor Robert Smith 32 Credibility of the Gospel History 30 New Abridgment of the Law 30 Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation 30 Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29 Astro-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens 28 Moral Philosopher [Thomas Morgan] 28 Modern Theory and Practice of Physic 27 Histoire Ecclésiastique [Claude Fleury] 26 Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant 26 Treatise of Human Nature 26 Diplomata Scoticae 25 Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables 25 Doctrine of the Passions Explain'd and Improv'd 23 Week's Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds with Defence on the Newtonian Philosophy 22 Dying Thoughts, in Three Parts 21 History of the Conquest of Mexico 20 Account of Denmark, as it was in the Year 1692 19 Bibliothèque Raisonnée des Ouvrages des Savans de l'Europe 18 Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey 17 Della Istoria d'Italia ... Libri XX 17 Historical and Critical Dictionary 17 Hudibras 17 Leonidas 17 Works of Saint John Chrysostom 17 Eusebius: Or, the True Christian's Defence Against a Late Book Entitul'd the Moral Philosopher 16 Opera Omnia Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgica 16 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 16 Philosophical Experiments [Stephen Hales] 16 Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown 16 Architecture Hydraulique 15 Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England 15 Roman History [François Catrou & Pierre Julien Rouille] 15 De Jure Belli ac Pacis 14 Ecclesiastical History [Claude Fleury] 14 Fourteen Sermons on Practical Subjects [Pawlet St John] 14 History of the Apostles Creed: with Critical Observations on its Several Articles 14 Jewish Letters: or, A Correspondence Philosophical, Historical and Critical, Betwixt a Jew and his Correspondents, in Different Parts 14 Works of Carlo Sigonio 14 Jerusalem Delivered 13 Nova Acta Eruditorum 13 Praelectiones Academicae [Herman Boerhaave] 13 Religion of Nature Delineated 13 Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews 12 Genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian 12 London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12 Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium 11 Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding 11 Devout Exercises of the Heart in Meditation and Soliloquy, Prayer and Praise 10 Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manicheïsme 10 History of the Works of the Learned 10 Collection of Several Treatises in Folio, concerning Scotland, as it was of Old 9 Curious Herbal. Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of Physick 9 Don Quixote 9 Fables [John Gay] 9 Guilt of Adam's Transgression Not Imputed to his Posterity 9 Histoire des Empereurs et des Autres Princes qui ont Régné Durant les Six Premiers Siècles de l'Eglise 9 Memoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes 9 Necessity of Revelation: or An Enquiry into the Extent of Human Powers with Respect to Matters of Religion 9 Figure of the Earth, Determined from Observations Made by Order of the French King, at the Polar Circle 8
Book language English 5432 French 458 Latin 405 Greek 26 Italian 24 Spanish 9 Dutch 3 Hebrew 3 German 2
Book place of publication London 5037 Edinburgh 344 Paris 307 Amsterdam 118 The Hague 97 Cambridge 95 Geneva 79 Dublin 60 Leiden 41 Venice 37 Oxford 27 Leipzig 26 Milan 22 Halle 18 Göttingen 16 Brussels 14 Newcastle upon Tyne 14 Frankfurt am Main 12 St Petersburg 11 Florence 10 Rotterdam 9 York 8 Frankfurt 7 Berlin 5 Helmstedt 5 Cologne 4 Dresden 4 Boston, MA 3 Strasbourg 3 Uppsala 3 Bologna 2 Franecker 2 Utrecht 2 Hamburg 1 Jena 1 Nuremberg 1 Zurich 1
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Genre History 2987 Theology 885 Sermons 660 Periodicals 607 Natural Philosophy 458 Belles Lettres 334 Medicine 218 Poetry 187 Law 140 Fiction 128 Travel 113 Philosophy and Morality 108 Lives 69 Reference Works 61 Mathematics 41 Politics, Society and Political Economy 35 Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 29 Education 28 Fine Arts 13
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