A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, المجلد 41817 |
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... preparation of blue glass , and which is composed of various metals com- bined with cobalt , but particularly iron , copper , arsenic , and perhaps also bismuth . It is hard , brittle , sonorous , and assumes a good polish , though it ...
... preparation of blue glass , and which is composed of various metals com- bined with cobalt , but particularly iron , copper , arsenic , and perhaps also bismuth . It is hard , brittle , sonorous , and assumes a good polish , though it ...
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... preparing stannum may not have been known among them , and therefore under the cassiteron of the Greeks we must undoubtedly understand tin . In this case one could compre- hand why stannum is not mentioned in the works of the Greeks ...
... preparing stannum may not have been known among them , and therefore under the cassiteron of the Greeks we must undoubtedly understand tin . In this case one could compre- hand why stannum is not mentioned in the works of the Greeks ...
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... preparing and preserving salt provisions . When they speak of the choice of vessels , they merely say that new earthen ones should be employed . Some of the physicians only have had the foresight to recommend tinned ves- sels . * It ...
... preparing and preserving salt provisions . When they speak of the choice of vessels , they merely say that new earthen ones should be employed . Some of the physicians only have had the foresight to recommend tinned ves- sels . * It ...
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... prepare artificial precious stones , or the best prisms for philosophical experiments in regard to refraction , must anneal the glass , which has be- come quite stiff , in the furnace ; then break it , and form the pieces to the proper ...
... prepare artificial precious stones , or the best prisms for philosophical experiments in regard to refraction , must anneal the glass , which has be- come quite stiff , in the furnace ; then break it , and form the pieces to the proper ...
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Johann Beckmann. 1 no longer the only people acquainted with the art of preparing this fire , the precursor of our gun- powder . The emperor Leo , who about the same period , wrote his art of war , recommends such en- gines , with a ...
Johann Beckmann. 1 no longer the only people acquainted with the art of preparing this fire , the precursor of our gun- powder . The emperor Leo , who about the same period , wrote his art of war , recommends such en- gines , with a ...
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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.