# Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica/Volume Second

SUPPLEMENT
to the
FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH EDITIONS
of the
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA.
WITH PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS
on the
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES.
Illustrated by Engravings.
VOLUME SECOND.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH; AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND COMPANY, LONDON.
1824.
* Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general view of the progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, since the revival of letters in Europe
* Directions for placing the Plates
* Errata
* Signatures to the Articles and Treatises contained in the Second Volume
Table
of the
Articles and Treatises
Contained in this Volume.
Australasia.
Austria
Aves. See Vertebrosa.
Ayrshire.
Azores, or Western Islands.
Babylon.
Bacon (John).
Baking.
Balance of Power.
Baldinger (Ernest Godfrey).
Balm of Gilead.
Baltic Sea.
Bamboo.
Banda Islands.
Bandello.
Bandini (Angelo Maria).
Banffshire.
Banking.
Banks for Savings.
Bannockburn.
Barbary States.
Barlow (Joel).
Barometer.
Barometrical Measurements.
Barracks.
Barry (James).
Barthez (Paul Joseph).
Basedow (John Bernard).
Basket-Making.
Bathing.
Batnears, or Batties.
Baumé (Anthony).
Bavaria.
Bayen (Peter).
Bazeegurs.
Beattie (James).
Beaumarchais (Pierre Augustin Caron de).
Beauty.
Beccaria (Cesar Bonesana).
Beccaria (Giambattista).
Beckmann (John).
Beddoes (Thomas).
Bedfordshire.
Bee.
Beggar.
Bejapour.
Bell Rock Light-House.
Beloochistan.
Benefit Societies.
Bentinck (William Henry Cavendish).
Berbice.
Berkshire.
Berthoud (Ferdinand).
Berwickshire.
Betel.
Bettinelli (Xavier).
Beykaneer, or Bicanere.
Bibliography.
Bichat (Marie François Xavier).
Bilfinger (George Bernard).
Bills of Mortality.
Black Sea.
Blasting.
Bleaching.
Blockade.
Bloch (Mark Eleazar).
Block.
Block— — — Machinery.
​Blow-Pipe.
Blow-Pipe— — — in Anatomy.
Blowing-Machines.
Bogalcund.
Bohaddin, or Boh-a-eddyn.
Bombay.
Borda (John Charles).
Boring of Cannon.
Boring of— — — Cylinders.
Boring of— — — Muskets.
Boring of— — — Portland Stone.
Boring of— — — Rocks.
Boring of— — — Wooden Pipes.
Born (Ignatius).
Borneo.
Borromean Islands.
Boswell (James).
Botany.
Botany Bay. See Holland, New.
Bougainville (Louis Antoine de).
Bouguer (Peter).
Boulton (Matthew).
Bourbon, Isle of.
Bourgoing (John Francis de).
Bramah (Joseph).
Brasil.
Brass.
Bread-Fruit.
Breakwater.
Breconshire, or Brecknockshire.
Brewing.
Brick-making.
Bridge.
Brisson (Mathurin James).
Brissot (John Peter).
Britain. See England.
Brocklesby (Richard).
Broker.
Bronzing.
Brosses (Charles de).
Broussonet (Pierre Marie Auguste).
Brucker (James).
Bryant (Jacob).
Buat-Nancay (Louis Gabriel).
Buckinghamshire.
Budukshaun.
Buenos Ayres.
Bukhara, or Bokhara.
Bulkh, or Balk.
Bundelcund, or Bandelkhand.
Burger (Godfrey Augustus).
Busching (Antony Frederick).
Buteshire.
Cabanis (Peter John George).
Cabinet-Making. See Joinery.
Caermarthenshire.
Caernarvonshire.
Cæsalpinus (Andrew).
Caithness-shire.
Calcutta.
Caledonian Canal.
Calendering.
Calico-Printing. See Dyeing.
Cambridgeshire.
Camera Lucida.
Camper (Peter).
Campomanes (D. Pedro Rodrigues).
Camus (Charles Stephen Louis).
Canada.
Canary Islands.
Cannon, Art of Casting.
Capillary Attraction. See Tubes, Capillary.
Capmany (Antonio de).
Caraccas.
Cardiganshire.
Carlow, County.
Carlyle (Joseph Dacre).
Carnatic.
Carpentry.
Casiri (Michael).
Caste, or Castes.
Casti (Giambatista).
Catoptrics. See Optics.
Caubul.
Caufiristaun.
Cavallo (Tiberius).
Cavan, County.
Cavanilles (Antonio Joseph).
Cavendish (Henry).
Celebes.
Cesarotti (Melchior).
Cetology. See Vertebrosa.
Ceylon.
Chemical Analysis. See Decomposition, Chemical.
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