A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, Том 11817 |
Зміст
| 1 | |
| 20 | |
| 31 | |
| 52 | |
| 72 | |
| 103 | |
| 111 | |
| 135 | |
| 208 | |
| 227 | |
| 272 | |
| 278 | |
| 288 | |
| 319 | |
| 333 | |
| 339 | |
| 152 | |
| 166 | |
| 173 | |
| 179 | |
| 195 | |
| 360 | |
| 376 | |
| 382 | |
| 524 | |
| 531 | |
Загальні терміни та фрази
acquainted afterwards alum alum-works ancients appears artichoke ascribed Bibliotheca birds brought called carduus carriages caused celebrated cinara Civita Vecchia clock coaches colour conjecture Dioscorides divers dyeing edition ejus emperor employed Encyclopédie etiam Europe expressly falconry flowers France Geopon German give given glass gold Greeks grind gypsum horologium invention inventor island Italian Italy Journal des Sçavans kind king Kircher known latter learned Levant libri litharge machine manner mentioned metal method mills Nuremberg observed odometer oldest opinion Paris passage perhaps person physician pieces plant Plin Pliny poison present printed procured quæ quam quicksilver quod quoted remarked rerum respecting Romæ Romans Rome Sainte Croix Samuel Morland saw-mill says scolymus seal sealing-wax sixteenth century speak species stone Theophrastus thing Thrace tion Tolfa translation tulips turmalin verdigrise water clocks water-mills wine word writers
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 65 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Сторінка 373 - ... and fastened to the end of the saw, which being turned with the force of water, hoisteth up and down the saw, that it continually eateth in, and the handle of the same is kept in a rigall of wood, from swerving. Also the timber lieth, as it were, upon a ladder, which is brought by little and little to the saw with another vice.
Сторінка 446 - I shall now produce a proof, that not only clocks but watches were made in the beginning of the fourteenth century. Seven or eight years ago, some labourers were employed at Bruce Castle, in Fifeshire, where they found a watch, together with some coin, both of which they disposed of to a shopkeeper of St. Andrews, who sent the watch to his brother in London, considering it as a curious piece of antiquity.
Сторінка 443 - Hall, with a clock to be heard by the courts of law, out of a fine imposed on the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the sixteenth year of Edward I, or in 1288...
Сторінка 126 - Towards the end of the sixteenth century, John of Finland, on his return from England, among other articles of luxury, brought with him to Sweden the first coach. + Before that period, the greatest lords in Sweden, when they travelled by land, carried their wives with them on horseback. The princesses even travelled in that manner, and, when it rained, took with them a mantle of wax-cloth.
Сторінка 344 - HUMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Сторінка 45 - Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them. Before the tulip season was over, more roots were sold and...
Сторінка 335 - Verden, the counties of Oldenburg, Delmenhorst, Diepholz, Huy and East Friesland. Pliny says expressly, that the Chauci pressed together with their hands a kind of mossy earth, which they dried by the wind rather than by the sun, and which they used not only for cooking their victuals, but also for warming their bodies...
Сторінка 187 - Phipps set sail in a ship of two hundred tons, having previously engaged to divide the profits according to the twenty shares of which the subscription consisted. At first all his labours proved fruitless ; but at last, when he seemed almost to despair...
Сторінка 117 - The panels were of glass, and on that account they were called the imperial glass coaches. On festivals the harness •was ornamented with red silk fringes. The imperial coaches were distinguished only by their having leather traces ; but the ladies in the imperial suite were obliged to be...