Abraham Rees
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Abraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
Abraham Rees, c. 1802.
Cyclopædia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is a British encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728. Six more editions appeared between 1728 and 1751, and t
Abraham Rees
…Oct 1772 in Hoxton Town, died 25 Feb 1798, buried in Dissenting Chapel Yard. Rivington, Lancs Rees's work as a cyclopædist began as an improver of the Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers, originally published in 1728, in 2 volumes. This was re-edited by Rees in 1778; and, with the incorporation of a supplement and…
Ephraim Chambers Cyclopædia (1728)
Table of trigonometry, 1728 Cyclopædia