Ah, Yes: Ghardak!

I never knew this existed until now, but now I find it neat:  SF Citations for OED.  Basically, it's a project run by the editor at large for the One True Dictionary in order to track down the origins of words and definitions that first gained widespread credence in the Science Fiction community.  (The entire project was apparently made open to the public following a search for the earliest known usage of the word 'mutant' to refer to a person who's undergone some horrible physical transformation.  Current date on that one: 1938, although the word is believed to have been in use prior to that.)

Anyways, if you've ever wanted to know the first known written occurrence of fanzine (1940), slash (1984), avatar (1986), or android (1727), then this is the place for you.  It also answers the question: which came first, trekkie or trekker?  (The answer?  Trekkie, by 8 words.)

And on a final note:  page 87 of the 1728 edition of Chambers's Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences : containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify'd thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine : the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial : the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial : with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c : among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks, &c : the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning (First volume).  The word in question is the very last definition in the left hand column.

No one better think of scolding me for any possible misspelling in the title.  Oh, and the anatomy drawings are kind of neat.