A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, Volumen 41817 |
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... conjecture . Pliny perhaps meant to say , that tinning properly ought to be done with pure tin , but that unprincipled artists employed for that purpose tin mixed with lead . If this be the true meaning , his reproach was not unfounded ...
... conjecture . Pliny perhaps meant to say , that tinning properly ought to be done with pure tin , but that unprincipled artists employed for that purpose tin mixed with lead . If this be the true meaning , his reproach was not unfounded ...
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... conjectures therefore , and with great probability , that this word was the general appellation of a peninsula , or bay , or a place of depot for merchandise . the Mictis of Timæus and the Vectis of Pliny are not this island Ictis , it ...
... conjectures therefore , and with great probability , that this word was the general appellation of a peninsula , or bay , or a place of depot for merchandise . the Mictis of Timæus and the Vectis of Pliny are not this island Ictis , it ...
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... conjecture that it may mean the ferrum Indicum , which , lib . xvi . § 7. ff de publicanis , or Digest . xxxix . 4. § 16. 7 , is named among the articles liable to pay duty ; but some editions in this passage have ebenum Indicum . The ...
... conjecture that it may mean the ferrum Indicum , which , lib . xvi . § 7. ff de publicanis , or Digest . xxxix . 4. § 16. 7 , is named among the articles liable to pay duty ; but some editions in this passage have ebenum Indicum . The ...
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... conjecture is true , I have , I think , sufficiently proved ; though Mun- chausen , Haller , and others read the date 1603. › In the year 1669 , John Evelyn gave to the Royal Society of London a complete description of Locatelli's ...
... conjecture is true , I have , I think , sufficiently proved ; though Mun- chausen , Haller , and others read the date 1603. › In the year 1669 , John Evelyn gave to the Royal Society of London a complete description of Locatelli's ...
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... conjectured that other minerals might possess a similar pro- perty . Some imagined that they had found mag- nets for gold and silver . * In the oldest times * Wallerius entertained a hope of this kind . See his Elementa Metallurgie ...
... conjectured that other minerals might possess a similar pro- perty . Some imagined that they had found mag- nets for gold and silver . * In the oldest times * Wallerius entertained a hope of this kind . See his Elementa Metallurgie ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 108 - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Página 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.
Página 300 - Priest, &c. ; with a Commentary, in which the antiquity of them is considered and defended by Jeremiah Milles, DD, Dean of Exeter.
Página 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...
Página 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,...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.