Property:Subject

The property subject is used to flag the intellectual content of a book or books, using a standardised set of classifications.

Subjects are described in early books using variant terminology. The following descriptors are defined as the standardised forms used to tag subjects as Properties, when they occur:

• Art (this includes painting, drawing, perspective)
• Agriculture
• Alchemy
• Architecture
• Astrology
• Astronomy
• Biography
• Botany
• Cartography (this includes maps)
• Classics
• Economics (this includes trade and business)
• Gardening (this includes horticulture and husbandry)
• Geography (this includes travel)
• Grammar
• Heraldry (this includes genealogy)
• History (this includes chronology)
• Law
• Lexicography (this includes dictionaries)
• Literature (this includes poetry, drama, romances)
• Logic
• Magic (this includes necromancy)
• Mathematics
• Medicine (this includes anatomy, surgery)
• Military affairs (this includes fortification, warfare manuals)
• Music
• Natural history
• Numismatics
• Orientalism
• Philology
• Philosophy
• Politics (this includes current affairs)
• Rhetoric
• Science
• Theology (this includes patristics, exegesis, devotional works, doctrinal and controversial theology)
• Veterinary practices