A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Beckmann
1586. Camerarius saw him not only write, but even make a pen with his
feet.--TRANS.
[327] Strabo, lib. xv. p. 1048. ed. Almel.--Dio Cassius, lib. liv. p.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- 86. The author here quotes from an ancient city-book the following Ch.2
- 58. The former is Marianus Florentinus, whose Fasciculus Chronicoram Ch.3
- 50. Norium Svanberg 1845.] Ch.4
- 370. A better view of them may be found in Hygini Astronom. (ed. Van Ch.5
- 17. The Italians have a proverb, “La triglia non mangia chi la piglia,” Ch.6
- 300. Both these authors refer to Fuller’s British Worthies. [The carp Ch.7
- 5. Radice magna, acri, medicinali, _Plinius_, _Dioscorides_; Ch.8
- 6. Floret æstate, _Theophrastus_. _Plinius_; sed semen nullum, Ch.9
- 8. Sponte, præcipue in Asia Syriaque; trans Euphratem laudatissima; Ch.10
- 9. Radix conditur ad lanas lavandas, _Theophrastus_, _Plinius_, Ch.11
- 10. Herba ovibus lac auget, _Plinius_. Ch.12
- 379. Servius, Æn. iv. quotes the following words from Cato: “Mulieres Ch.13
- 527. Gynesius calls clothes washed with _nitrum_, νιτρούμενα, _nitro Ch.14
- 665. See also Busbequii Omnia, Basil, 1740, 8vo, p. 314. Ch.15
- 50. p. 59.--Plin. viii. 1 and 3.--Seneca, epist. 86.--Suetonii Vit. Ch.16
- 1586. Camerarius saw him not only write, but even make a pen with his Ch.17
- 739. Suetonius, Eutropius, Eusebius and Orosius, speak of this embassy, Ch.18
- 1665. After his death his son published some of his writings under Ch.19
- 1667. See Biographia Britannica, iv. p. 2654. Ch.20
- 1518. They are called there _instruments for fires_, _water syringes_ Ch.21
- 1780. The process for this purpose is given by the monk Theophilus, Ch.22
- 22. 2nd. The altar of burnt incense, ver. 20 and 22. 3rd. The wooden Ch.23
- 30. 5th. The doors of the oracle, on which were carved cherubims, Ch.24
- 87. One manuscript, according to Kennicot, has however אדרת שעו, a Ch.25
- 875. On the other hand, Sturm says, in that part of the Ritterplatzes Ch.26
- 1799. This dissertation may be found also in a valuable collection of Ch.27
- 1572. It is not improbable that, among works of this kind, some may be Ch.28
- 1538. 30 H. 8. 3 Oct. ........ two peyr of knytt hose I s. Ch.29
- introduction of hops. The oldest writers who treat of the good and Ch.30
- 270. [This plant is still extensively used in the northern parts of Ch.31
- introduction of them, however, is of so modern a date, that they have Ch.32
- 120. _Ligula Argentea._ Ch.33
- 121. _Cochlearia._ Ch.34
- 3. § 35, p. 393. “La dureté du gouvernement peut aller jusqu’à detruire Ch.35
- 2. Privilegia ordinis S. Jo. Hierosol. small folio, Romæ 1588. 3. Ch.36
- 407. Serapio de Temperam. Simplic. p. 164. In Du Cange’s Gloss. Gr. Ch.37
- 1495. A Milanese, by duke Louis Sforza, to Michael Ferner and Ch.38
- 1501. Privilegium sodalitatis Celticæ a senatu Romani imperii Ch.39
- 1506. A papal, of pope Julius II., to Evangelista Tosino the Ch.40
- 1510. The first Imperial, to Lectura aurea semper Domini abbatis Ch.41
- 1527. A privilege from the duke of Saxony to the edition of the New Ch.42
- 1510. The history of king Boccus ... printed at London by Thomas Ch.43
- 1518. Oratio Richardi Pacei ... Impressa per Richardum Pynson, Ch.44
- introduction of them at the mines of the Harz Forest, i. 67. Ch.45
- introduction of gas, ii. 182-185. Ch.46