The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen2Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... burning - glasses of Archimedes , and the other ( not so often noticed ) which the historian Zonaras records , of ... burning - glasses , but by burning sulphur showered upon the ships from machines . Vide Montucla , Histoire des ...
... burning - glasses of Archimedes , and the other ( not so often noticed ) which the historian Zonaras records , of ... burning - glasses , but by burning sulphur showered upon the ships from machines . Vide Montucla , Histoire des ...
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... glass - houses in his native district ; at which he employed all the resources of his ingenuity in endea- vouring to fabricate burning - glasses of greater size and power than any which had ever been elsewhere produced . In 1687 he had ...
... glass - houses in his native district ; at which he employed all the resources of his ingenuity in endea- vouring to fabricate burning - glasses of greater size and power than any which had ever been elsewhere produced . In 1687 he had ...
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