The concordance
Concordance entries
Historical terms, their attested forms, and the passages in which they appear.
Alligator
Alligators as zoological organisms, including historically identified American alligators and contextually supported historical spellings.
1615–1890 · 13 passagesCinchona bark
The historical febrifuge bark complex associated with Cinchona plants, including contextually supported quina and quinquina forms.
1741–1865 · 16 passagesCinchona officinalis
The Linnaean taxon Cinchona officinalis rather than the entire historical febrifuge bark complex.
1574–1845 · 7 passagesConsciousness
Psychological and philosophical accounts of awareness or conscious mental life.
1845–1920 · 66 passagesContagion
Historical accounts of communicable disease transmission or contagious influence.
1648–1911 · 15 passagesCosmos
The ordered universe or nature conceived as an interconnected whole, distinct from a mere book-title occurrence.
1845–1920 · 46 passagesElectricity
Electrical attraction, charge, current, and related historical physical phenomena.
1646–1920 · 43 passagesEngineer
The historical occupation and role of the engineer, resolved separately from engineering as a field or generic learned expertise.
1845–1911 · 16 passagesEugenics
The modern program of directing human reproduction according to claims about heredity and population quality.
1859–1859 · 6 passagesEvolution
Historical scientific concepts of ordered development or transformation, with biological and non-biological senses distinguished in passages.
1809–1920 · 65 passagesGenius
Exceptional natural intellectual or creative capacity, including historically explicit accounts of natural genius.
1646–1920 · 38 passagesHomo sapiens
The human species under the Linnaean taxonomic name Homo sapiens.
1758–1899 · 16 passagesHuman species
Historical conceptions of humanity as a species when the passage does not warrant direct assignment to the modern taxon.
1646–1897 · 18 passagesIntelligence
Cognitive capacity or intellect as discussed in scientific, philosophical, and psychological contexts.
1778–1920 · 62 passagesMachine
Physical machines and historically explicit machine analogies, with metaphorical uses retained as passage-level senses.
1778–1920 · 39 passagesMelancholy
Melancholy as a historical temperament, condition, or disorder, retaining humoral and later psychological distinctions.
1646–1920 · 29 passagesMental measurement
Practices intended to quantify mental capacities, performance, or individual psychological differences.
1862–1920 · 4 passagesMilitary engineer
Engineers working primarily on fortification, siegecraft, surveying, and other military works.
1825–1862 · 4 passagesTransmutation of species
The historical claim that species transform into other species.
1859–1859 · 19 passagesÁgua de Inglaterra
Portuguese proprietary or compounded febrifuge preparations known as Água de Inglaterra.
1741–1741 · 12 passages