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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 32 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 24 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 24 0 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
um-vitae. Boxwood is preferred for croquetballs. See also ivory, artificial. The game of ball is mentioned by Homer (Odyssey, VIII. 372), and was credited by Plato to the Egyptians, among whom it was known in the twelfth dynasty, say 2000 B. C. The Athenians erected a statue to Aristonicus on account of his skill in ball-pDiocletian to his thermae. A furnished library was discovered in Herculaneum. Round the wall it had numbered cases containing the rolls. It is recorded that Plato bought three works of Philolaus, the Pythagorean, for ten thousand denarii, nearly $1500. Aristotle bought a few books of Spencippus for three Attic talents, nearfor descriptions see Gibbon's history and other works treating of ancient and mediaeval military tactics and weapons. The use of the bow is of great antiquity. Plato credits Apollo with the invention. Ishmael became an archer (Gen. XXI. 20). The Philistine archers overcame Saul (1 Sam. XXXI. 3). David commanded it to be taught
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
from whose fugitives they received so much. Witness Cecrops and Danaus, and the fact that Thales, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Solon, Herodotus, and others of their sages, were indebted to the land of the Nile for their eminence in science and art distinguished Greek writer of the third century, A. D., a native of Egypt, in the course of his table-talk mentions that Plato (372 B. C.) had constructed a clepsydra or waterdial which played upon pipes the hours of the night, at a time when they long previously. The first striking or audible notification of the hour, on record, is the clepsydra or water-dial of Plato, 372 B. C., which, by the agency of water, sounded upon organ-pipes the hour of the night when the index could not be seete and Phrygia was a wild, warlike performance, with the same rattling accompaniment. The Pyrrhic dance, as described by Plato, was a frantic exhibition of evolutions and tumblings, representing the modes of dodging and warding off the blows of swo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ch is mentioned in the account of the miraculous cure of his son Hezekiah, thirteen years after Ahaz was gathered to his fathers. This is perhaps the first dial on record, and is 140 years before Thales, and nearly 400 years before Aristotle and Plato, and just a little previous to the lunar eclipses observed at Babylon, as recorded by Ptolemy. Equinoctial dial (Benares). The opinions as to the construction of the dial of Ahaz vary considerably, and the Hebrew word is said, by Colonel Wme of Atys, to amuse the people during the famine, for the Heroic times are older than Atys. In Homer the suitors amused themselves in front of the door with dice [to determine by the chances who should claim Penelope]. —Athenieus, A. D. 220. Plato is more probably correct in ascribing them to the Egyptians, though the Sanscrit book is as old as the Pentateuch and the Pharaoh who knew Joseph. The Greek dice were cubes, and were numbered like our own, 6-1, 5-2, 4-3, so that the opposite f
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
the statements of Diodorus Siculus, that music was unknown in that country. A remarkable instance, which may stand as a complete refutation, is found in the harps discovered by Bruce depicted upon a tomb near the ruins of Thebes. These were so superior to the harps of 100 years since, that doubts were entertained of the fidelity of the representation; but Rosellini's Monumenti della Egitto, and Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, have removed all doubts. (See harp.) The testimony of Herodotus, Plato, and others also enforces the statement, that music arose in Egypt and came thence to Greece. When the Israelites left Egypt. they carried away with them some of the arts with which they had become acquainted in their at first voluntary and subsequently enforced stay. According to Father Kircher, thirty-six kinds of instruments played by striking were employed by the Jews in the service of the Temple. Others reduce the number to twenty-two. Among these, the class termed neghinoth i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
nd his name is Ctesibus. And Aristocles reports this in his book on Choruses, saying: The question is asked, whether the hydraulic organ is a stringed or a wind instrument. Now, Aristoxenus did not feel sure on this point; but it is said that Plato showed a certain notion of the invention, making a nightly clock like the hydraulic organ, being very like an enormous hour-glass, which, indeed, it resembles. It cannot, therefore, be considered a stringed instrument, and one to be played by toted in 1715 by Rowley, after a pattern devised by the clockmaker George Graham. See planetarium; Tellurian. The heliocentric theory was held by the ancient Egyptians, and taught by them to Pythagoras. The theory did not flourish in Greece. Plato mentions it. A few scholars, like Nicolas (probably of Laodicea, fourth century A. D.), entertained it during the vast intervening period, and it was eventually revived by Copernicus. When the Spaniards conquered Peru, they found the natives
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
rsons, like the pit-saw. Ancient saws. g, Fig. 3032, page 1379, represents a saw discovered by Mr. Burton at Thebes, and now placed in the British Museum. The owner had probably been dead several hundred years before Pythagoras, Solon, or Plato visited Egypt to study science. The ancient saws were hand and frame. a. From a painting at Herculaneum. Two genii working a frame-saw. b. A frame-saw from a funeral monument. c. A frame-saw blade detached; from a monument. d. An Eged into $3 17s. 10d. 2f., and an ounce of standard silver into 5s. 6d. Copper is coined in the proportion of 2 shillings to the pound avoirdupois. The relative value of gold and silver has been variable. Herodotus mentions it as13 to 1. Plato mentions it as12 to 1. Menander mentions it as10 to 1. Livy, B. C. 189,10 to 1. Julius Caesar exchanged at9 to 1. Early Emperors (average),12 to 1. From Constantine to Justinian,14 to 1. Modern times, from14 to 1 to 17 to 1. 9. A unit o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
reen or curtain. Ovid mentions human figures as worked on the curtains of theaters. For an account of ancient tapestry, see Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, article Tapes. Tapestry is described in the Book of Exodus. Plato, the comic poet, namesake of the philosopher, says: — There the well-dressed guests recline On couches rich with ivory feet; And on their purple cushions dine, Which rich Sardinian carpets meet For the art of weaving embroidered cloths was inphists, says: Clearchus the Solensian has explained the cause of this in his Treatise on Torpor, but since his explanation is rather a long one, I do not recollect his exact words. The author of the Banquet of the learned goes on to say :— Plato, the philosopher, says in the Meno, you seem very much to resemble the sea-torpedo, for that fish causes any one who comes near it to become torpid ; and an allusion to the name occurs also in Homer, where he says,— His hand was torpid at the<