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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
es or buildings, in which the plan and elevations are shown in one view. Three planes are projected at an equal angle upon a single plane. I-tal′ian I′ron. A laundress's smoothing-iron for fluting and smoothing frills. I-tal′ian roof. A hip-roof. I-tal′ic. Inclined type of a peculiar form, as, — Italic type is said to have been copied from the handwriting of Petrarch, by the famous printer Aldus Manutius. He obtained a patent for the use of this character in type from Pope Leo X., surnamed The Great. I′vo-ride. An artificial ivory. A vulcanite whitened by abundant quantity of some white material. See ivory, artificial. I′vo-ry. Specifically, the material constituting the tusk of the elephant. In a more general sense the term includes the tusks of the walrus, narwhal, and even the teeth of some other cetacea. The African ivory is preferred to the Asiatic; it has a greater proportion of animal matter, and is less liable to discoloration.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
anscrit characters and bearing date about 100 B. C., was dug up at Mongheer in Bengal. The grantor was a Bideram Gunt. Pliny informs us that such documents were rolled up like a cylinder. Two letters are still preserved which passed between Pope Leo III. and Luitbrand, king of the Longobards. Montfaucon notices an ancient book composed of eight leaves of lead, the outside two forming the cover, and the whole held together by a leaden rod passing through rings at the back of the plates. T. A periodical work of 1801 thus describes this work in connection with a similar work at the base of a peristyle at Esne:— That at Esne indicates the solstice in the sign of Virgo, and that of Dendera, which is of later date, shows the sun in Leo. The intention of the founders of these monuments was certainly to represent the present state of the heavens when these were constructed. A comparison of these two zodiacs, which may now be instituted, throws back to the most remote antiquity th