A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, 4. kötet1817 |
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8. oldal
... necessary to know that most kinds of lead ore contain also silver , and many of them in such quantity that they might with more propriety be called silver ores , or rather argentiferous lead ores or plumbiferous silver • Plin . lib ...
... necessary to know that most kinds of lead ore contain also silver , and many of them in such quantity that they might with more propriety be called silver ores , or rather argentiferous lead ores or plumbiferous silver • Plin . lib ...
41. oldal
... necessary knowledge , he returned to England with some German work- men and manufactured tin plate , which met with * See Gegenwärtiger staat von England , Portugal , und Spanien ( by Theodore King of Corsica ) , ii . p . 25 ...
... necessary knowledge , he returned to England with some German work- men and manufactured tin plate , which met with * See Gegenwärtiger staat von England , Portugal , und Spanien ( by Theodore King of Corsica ) , ii . p . 25 ...
54. oldal
... necessary , renders it more fragile and brittle , so that it often suffers from the action of the air and of acids . On Sylva Sylvarum , cent . 5. § 442. p . 267 . + Algem . Histor . der Reisen , vi . p . 217 .. this account the windows ...
... necessary , renders it more fragile and brittle , so that it often suffers from the action of the air and of acids . On Sylva Sylvarum , cent . 5. § 442. p . 267 . + Algem . Histor . der Reisen , vi . p . 217 .. this account the windows ...
58. oldal
... necessary that the artist should weigh the manga- nese , in order to proportion it to the vitreous mass , according to the required colour , it is possible that the glass , when a very small quantity had been added , was found to be ...
... necessary that the artist should weigh the manga- nese , in order to proportion it to the vitreous mass , according to the required colour , it is possible that the glass , when a very small quantity had been added , was found to be ...
69. oldal
... necessary that the water should be cold : these drops will be formed also in warm water , as well as in every other fluid , and even in melted wax . See Redi's experiments in Miscel lan . naturae curios . anni secundi , 1671 , p . 426 ...
... necessary that the water should be cold : these drops will be formed also in warm water , as well as in every other fluid , and even in melted wax . See Redi's experiments in Miscel lan . naturae curios . anni secundi , 1671 , p . 426 ...
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393. oldal - 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.
393. oldal - 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...
108. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
394. oldal - 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.
300. oldal - Priest, &c. ; with a Commentary, in which the antiquity of them is considered and defended by Jeremiah Milles, DD, Dean of Exeter.
394. oldal - 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...
298. oldal - 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,...
142. oldal - 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.
59. oldal - 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.
316. oldal - 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.