A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, المجلد 41817 |
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... writers who were acquainted with metallurgy , of whom I shall here mention Agricola , * Encelius , † Fallopius , Savot , § Bernia , and Jung.¶ The ancients used as a peculiar metal , a mix- ture of gold and silver , because they were ...
... writers who were acquainted with metallurgy , of whom I shall here mention Agricola , * Encelius , † Fallopius , Savot , § Bernia , and Jung.¶ The ancients used as a peculiar metal , a mix- ture of gold and silver , because they were ...
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... writer , is , to me , not at all surprising , The works of those who might be supposed to have possessed knowledge of this kind , have not been handed down to us . We should not have known what stannum was , had not the only passage of ...
... writer , is , to me , not at all surprising , The works of those who might be supposed to have possessed knowledge of this kind , have not been handed down to us . We should not have known what stannum was , had not the only passage of ...
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... writer , and his follower Priscian , and Avienus , call the Cassiterides islands the Hesperides . ‡ If That the Drangians had tin mines appears to me highly improbable : Strabo is the only writer who says so , in a few words ; and ...
... writer , and his follower Priscian , and Avienus , call the Cassiterides islands the Hesperides . ‡ If That the Drangians had tin mines appears to me highly improbable : Strabo is the only writer who says so , in a few words ; and ...
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... writers treat on the history of this metal , they seldom fail to repeat what has been said on the subject by Matthew Paris . This Proofs may be found in Dufresne , + Wencesl . Hagec Böhmische Chronik . Nürnberg 1697 , fol . p . 53 ...
... writers treat on the history of this metal , they seldom fail to repeat what has been said on the subject by Matthew Paris . This Proofs may be found in Dufresne , + Wencesl . Hagec Böhmische Chronik . Nürnberg 1697 , fol . p . 53 ...
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Johann Beckmann. was begun is not known . Yarranton , an English writer , of whom I shall speak more hereafter , re- lates that the first tinning of this kind was made in Bohemia ; that a catholic clergyman , who em- braced the Lutheran ...
Johann Beckmann. was begun is not known . Yarranton , an English writer , of whom I shall speak more hereafter , re- lates that the first tinning of this kind was made in Bohemia ; that a catholic clergyman , who em- braced the Lutheran ...
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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.