A History of Inventions and Discoveries, 4. kötetWalker, 1814 |
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... France , par Gobet , Paris , 1779 , 8vo . p . 812 . | Aldrovandi musæum metallicum auctore Mar. Ant . Bernia . Bononiæ 1648. fol . p . 181 . Joachim Jungii Doxoscopia , Hamburgi 1662. 4. cap . 5. de metalli speciebus . Of the writings ...
... France , par Gobet , Paris , 1779 , 8vo . p . 812 . | Aldrovandi musæum metallicum auctore Mar. Ant . Bernia . Bononiæ 1648. fol . p . 181 . Joachim Jungii Doxoscopia , Hamburgi 1662. 4. cap . 5. de metalli speciebus . Of the writings ...
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... France , and other countries . But as the whole history of the German mines is very defective and uncertain , the period when this useful and highly profitable branch of business Peithners Versuch über die Geschichte der Böhmischen und ...
... France , and other countries . But as the whole history of the German mines is very defective and uncertain , the period when this useful and highly profitable branch of business Peithners Versuch über die Geschichte der Böhmischen und ...
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... France , the first ‡ * This is related by Anderson and Watson , from a book which I have never seen , entitled , England's improvement by sca and land , by And . Yarranton , gent . 1698 . + Watson's chemical essays , iv . p . 203 ...
... France , the first ‡ * This is related by Anderson and Watson , from a book which I have never seen , entitled , England's improvement by sca and land , by And . Yarranton , gent . 1698 . + Watson's chemical essays , iv . p . 203 ...
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... France , as is asserted in Gundling's Histor . der Gelahrheit . iii . p . 3226. In regard to sending home the body , which was done in the year 1666 , some curious circumstances may be seen in Dunkel's Nachrichten von Gelehrten , ii . 1 ...
... France , as is asserted in Gundling's Histor . der Gelahrheit . iii . p . 3226. In regard to sending home the body , which was done in the year 1666 , some curious circumstances may be seen in Dunkel's Nachrichten von Gelehrten , ii . 1 ...
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... France from Ger- many . According to Anthony Le Grand they came from Prussia . ‡ The first glass drops were brought to England by the well - known prince Rupert , third son of the elector Palatine , Frederic V , and the princess ...
... France from Ger- many . According to Anthony Le Grand they came from Prussia . ‡ The first glass drops were brought to England by the well - known prince Rupert , third son of the elector Palatine , Frederic V , and the princess ...
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108. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
390. oldal - ... touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought good to imitate the 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. Laurence Whitaker, who in his merry humour doubted not to call me at table furcifer, only for using a fork at feeding...
294. 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,...
408. oldal - ... to arise thereof after the charges borne may be converted towards the reparations of the havens and strength of the realme, and towards such other public good workes.
389. oldal - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meat out of the dish, they fasten their fork 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...
389. oldal - ... should unadvisedly touch the dish of meate with his fingers from which all at the table doe cut, he will give occasion of offence unto the company, as having transgressed the laws of good manners, in so much that for his error he shall be at the least brow-beaten if not reprehended in wordes.
389. oldal - I observed a custome in all those Italian Cities and Townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels, neither doe I thinke that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
291. oldal - Pliny says that such dresses were worn, " ut in publico matrona transluceat." and on that account called stocking-knitting. That the Romans and most of the ancient nations had no particular clothing for the lower part of the body, is so well known, that it is unnecessary for me to repeat the proofs. Their legs however did not suffer more from the cold than our hands when they are not covered by gloves, or than the feet of the Franciscans at present ; and what is common is not indecent. It is well...
85. oldal - These machines by ancient writers are expressly called spouting-engines. John Cameniata, speaking of the siege of his native city, Thessalonica, which was taken by the Saracens in the year 904, says that the enemy threw fire into the wooden works of the besieged, which was blown into them by means of tubes, and thrown 'from other vessels*.
335. oldal - In England, the use of hops seems to have been introduced at a much later period ; but it is said that they were at first considered as a dangerous production, and that the planting of them was forbidden in the reign of Henry VI., about the middle of the fifteenth century-.