A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, المجلد 41817 |
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... became acquainted with iron at an early period , though not so early as with copper . I must also admit that tin might have been more easily discovered , because it is frequently found near the surface of the earth ; seen in the ...
... became acquainted with iron at an early period , though not so early as with copper . I must also admit that tin might have been more easily discovered , because it is frequently found near the surface of the earth ; seen in the ...
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... became acquainted with the art of separating these two metals , and con- tinued in use through habit , even after a method of separating them was discovered . If the ore subjected to fusion was abundant in silver , this mixture ...
... became acquainted with the art of separating these two metals , and con- tinued in use through habit , even after a method of separating them was discovered . If the ore subjected to fusion was abundant in silver , this mixture ...
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... present . That real tin was afterwards known to the Greeks , I readily believe ; but I find no proof of it , nor can I determine the time at which they first became acquainted with this metal . It is not 20 HISTORY OF INVENTIONS .
... present . That real tin was afterwards known to the Greeks , I readily believe ; but I find no proof of it , nor can I determine the time at which they first became acquainted with this metal . It is not 20 HISTORY OF INVENTIONS .
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Johann Beckmann. first became acquainted with this metal . It is not improbable that they considered it only as a variety of their old cassiteron , or the stannum of the Romans , as the latter declared both to be a variety of lead . It ...
Johann Beckmann. first became acquainted with this metal . It is not improbable that they considered it only as a variety of their old cassiteron , or the stannum of the Romans , as the latter declared both to be a variety of lead . It ...
الصفحة 27
... round them . Aristotle and Pliny meant to say the same thing of their paper ; and the latter adds that the paper , even when it became torn , was not burnt . What the first says of melting in water , some TIN . TINNING . 27.
... round them . Aristotle and Pliny meant to say the same thing of their paper ; and the latter adds that the paper , even when it became torn , was not burnt . What the first says of melting in water , some TIN . TINNING . 27.
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الصفحة 393 - The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
الصفحة 393 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
الصفحة 108 - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
الصفحة 394 - Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home. Being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned Gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one Mr.
الصفحة 300 - Priest, &c. ; with a Commentary, in which the antiquity of them is considered and defended by Jeremiah Milles, DD, Dean of Exeter.
الصفحة 394 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meat, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
الصفحة 298 - This information is confirmed by another account. It is related in Stow's Chronicle, that the earl of Pembroke was the first nobleman who wore worsted knit stockings. In the year 1564, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas Burdet, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, and having borrowed them, made a pair exactly like them, and these were the first stockings knit in England of woollen yarn. From this testimony,...
الصفحة 142 - Heennen, that indigo should be entirely banished from the empire, and that an exclusive privilege should be granted to those who dyed with woad. This was followed by an imperial prohibition on the 21st of April 1654, in which every thing ordered in regard to the devil's dyes is repeated, with this addition, that great care should be taken to prevent the private introduction of indigo, by which the trade in woad was lessened, dyed articles injured, and money carried out of the country.
الصفحة 59 - Mox, ut est ingeniosa sollertia, non fuit contenta nitrum miscuisse, coeptus addi et magnes lapis, quoniam in se liquorem vitri quoque ut ferrum trahere creditur.
الصفحة 316 - In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France) ; yet of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold, in memory of whom this is here painted.