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The new magazine of knowledge concerning heaven and hell, and the universal world of nature; or, Grand museum of intellectual, rational, and scientific truths. ... By a society of gentlemen
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- Format
- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London [England] : printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, no. 32, Clerkenwell-Close, ... Sold also by J. Walker, no. 44, Paternoster-Row; and by all booksellers, stationers, and newscarriers, in town and country, [1790-1791?]
- Publication Dates
- [Vol. I. for the year 1790] (April [i.e. Mar.], 1790.-December, 1790.)- Vol. II. for the year 1791. (January, 1791.-October, 1791.)
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (v., plates ) ports.
- OCLC
- ocn642234819
- Finding Aids
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- Subjects in each volume
- Succeeding Titles
- With added volume title pages issued with the first number of each volume.
- Volume and issue titles repeated as caption titles in each number.
- Designation from monthly title pages, except for the first issue, which has only a volume title page and has the designation below the caption title.
- Imprints vary slightly; from May 1790 and on the v. 2 title page, H.D. Symonds' name is added as a bookseller.
- Each issue is designed to combine articles on theology with essays on science, natural history, and general ideas; issues include poetry selections, current events (especially crime news), births, marriages, deaths, preferments, and bankrupts. Early numbers discuss the slave trade and mention the Bounty mutiny.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- NCBEL, II:1309
- Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 113
- English Short Title Catalog, P6012.
Subjects
- Theology -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Natural history -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- New Jerusalem Church -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Biography -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.