The Imperial Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of the Sciences and Arts. Vol. I

1860

Special Collections Q111 O74 1860

London: Griffin, Bohn and Co.

Growing up in a small country town, University of Otago graduate, Peter Seton Hay, managed to get hold of a volume called Circle of Sciences, a 19th century populist encyclopaedia, from which he gained his early mathematical knowledge. Here is The Imperial Encyclopaedia, otherwise known as Orr’s Circle of Sciences. This is the ‘Organic’ volume.