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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 7 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 5 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 2 2 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
f Mohammed lbu Abdallah, of Granada, is a notable instance. Avicenna also wrote a large number of works, among them an Encyclopedia of Human Knowledge, in twenty volumes. A manuscript copy of the Evangelists, the book on which the English kings, from Henry I. to Edward VI., took their coronation oath, was bound in oak boards, nearly an inch thick, in 1100. Velvet was the covering in the fourteenth century. Silk soon after. Vellum in the fifteenth. It was stamped and ornamented about 1510. Leather came in use about the latter date. Cloth binding superseded the common paper-covered mill-boards about 1831. Caoutchouc backs to account and other heavy books were introduced in 1841. The rolling machine of William Burr (England) was substituted for the beating-hammer about 1830. SeeBOOKBINDING. 2. (Gilding.) A package of gold-leaf, consisting of 25 leaves, each 3 1/8 × 3 inches square; they are inserted between leaves of soft paper rubbed with red chalk, to prevent adhere
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
te stringed instrument resembling a harp laid prostrate, the strings being played by quills operated by keys like those of a piano-forte. Harpoon-rocket. The harpsichord is believed to have been first made by Hans Rucken, in Germany, about 1510. Used in public festivals in Italy, 1522. Improved by Vincentino, 1555. Vertical form invented by Rigoli of Florence, 1620. Pepys, in his Diary (1661), speaks of the harpsichon at Captain Allen's house, where he saw his dear Mrs. Rebecca. The hats referred to in the reign of Richard II. （1385) were probably of cloth. Felt hats are stated by one authority to have been first made in England in 1470; and by another authority (Stow) to have been first made there, by Spaniards, in 1510. Before this time the people, both men and women, wore close woolen caps; originally of cloth and afterwards knit. Knitting is quite a modern art. Two centuries since, hats were customarily worn indoors. Home to bed; having got a strange c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Q. (search)
sistance of a little instrument for ascertaining the latitude. It consists of a little square board, with a string fast to the center, at the other end of which are certain knots. The upper edge of the board is held by one hand, so as to touch the north star, and the lower edge the horizon. Then the string is brought with the other hand to touch the tip of the nose, and the knot which comes in contact with the nose tells the latitude. A quadrant was constructed by Copernicus at Thorn in 1510. In 1590, Davis dispensed with the plumb and adapted the quadrant for use at sea. Previous to this the astrolabe and mariner's cross had been universally employed by seamen for determining the latitude; the longitude was derived from dead reckoning or guess-work. The telescope was adapted to the astronomical telescope by Picard. All these old forms were superseded for nautical purposes by the reflecting quadrant, invented by Sir Isaac Newton, 1670. He communicated the invention
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
perature with increasing western longitude (the inflection of the isothermal lines): to the law of rotation of the winds, generalized by Francis Bacon; to the diminution of atmospheric moisture and of the quantity of rain, caused by the destruction of forests: and to the decrease of temperature with increasing elevation above the level of the sea and the lower limit of perpetual snow. That this limit is a function of the geographical latitude was first recognized by Petrus Martyr Anghiera in 1510. — Humboldt. Previous to the introduction of the plan of completely inclosing the temperaturemeas-uring fluid in an air-exhausted tube, — the work of the Florentine Academicians, it was impossible to obtain reliable data as to the relative distribution of heat and the winter and summer variations of temperature upon different parts of the earth's surface. At present, thanks to the numerous and systematic observations which have been made at all points generally accessible to civilized ob