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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
s. The sleeping arrangements of the wealthy Greeks seem to have been good, but the Asiatics said the Greeks do not know how to make a comfortable bed. But no town with Miletus vies In the bridal-bed's rich canopies. Critias; quoted by Athenaeus, A. D. 220. The Roman bedsteads were magnificent, and the weary climbed on to them by step-ladders on the open side; the other was closed by a side-board. The open side was sponda, the closed pluteus; the latter for the weaker vessel. Thor to wine itself. — Diodorus Siculus (60 B. C.). Hecataeus, in his Description of the world, refers to the Egyptian beer. Sophocles and Aeschylus also. The latter, — And after this he drank his beer, and much And loudly bragged Athenaeus says that Thracians and Paeonians drank of barley-wine, or a similar drink made from millet or other grain. Polybius describes the palace of one of the Spanish kings as being [furnished with] huge silver and gold goblets full of the wine mad
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ch, and well-stuffed pillows. Hermippus, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220). At the supper of Iphicrates, purpns with felt and with leather. (See cart; wagon.) Athenaeus, in the Deipnosophists, refers to Polemo, in his tcastrating calves and pigs was usual in Greece. Athenaeus, in the Deipnosophists, says : — And how much and yielding Thessalian chair? Critias, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220.) Henry VIII.'s chair. Fig. 1239 ce That dwells by Arno's tide. Critias, quoted by Athenaeus (A. D. 220). 2. (Metallurgy.) One of the edge half the time it would empty itself unrenewed. Athenaeus, a distinguished Greek writer of the third centuryould not be seen. The contrivance is mentioned by Athenaeus of Egypt, a distinguished Greek writer of the thirhe great galley of Hiero is also called cochlea by Athenaeus. A screw-jack. 2. A spiral pump for raising waal, probably copper. Its invention is credited by Athenaeus to the Etrus cans. It differed from the tibia in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
h the length of the shadow thrown by the obelisk at the sixth hour (noon) on the day of the winter solstice. After this period the shadow would go on day by day, gradually decreasing, and then again would as gradually increase, corresponding with certain lines of brass that were inserted in the stone; a device well deserving to be known, and due to the ingenuity of Facundus Novus, the mathematician. On an ancient bas-relief at Rome, an hour-glass is placed in the hands of Morpheus, and Athenaeus says that the ancients carried portable hour-glasses with them as measurers of time. The ancients had three time-measurers, — dials, hour-glasses, clepsydras. Alfred the Great added wax tapers; perhaps Ebu Junis the pulsating lever; Galileo and Huyghens the pendulum. See clock. The Spaniards found the Mexicans provided with sun-dials for determining the hour, and instruments for the solstices and equinoxes. Their day had sixteen hours, commencing at sunrise. The Peruvians had al
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
on in the museums, along with the bone knives and cutting instruments made of shark's teeth lashed to a back piece, the primitive saw. A mother-ofpearl hook with attached tuft of hair to act as bait is known as witte-wittee. The old Egyptian fish-hooks were of bronze. See one in Dr. Abbott's collection, New York. Homer mentions the barbed hooks as used by Ulysses and his companions in Sicily: — All fish and birds, and all that come to hand With barbed hooks. Odyssey, XII. 322 Athenaeus states (A. D. 220) that the hooks were not forged in Sicily, but were brought by them in their vessel. — Athen. Epit., B. I. 22. Of the Grecian fish-hooks, some were bent around and others were straight, with a barb. In the cut are shown a number of fish-hooks, of which a b are two forms of a spring hook in which a mousing-piece engages the barb. c d are two positions of the same spring hook, one set and the other sprung. e is intended to give the hook a square presentation,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
kelmann considers their skill in all departments of vitreous art to be in advance of any succeeding age. They made glass of various colors, imitation pearls, and two films of glass were made to inclose gold plates. Glass-making in Egypt. Athenaeus states that the glass of Egypt was famous. Strabo says that one very perfect kind could only be made in Egypt. Herodotus speaks of rings of melted stone (no doubt, glass) as decorating the ears of the sacred Egyptian crocodiles. The manud theory of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic. The sun-dial and the gnomon, with the division of the day into twelve parts, were received by the Greeks from the Babylonians. Herodotus, 2. 109. Eubulus, the comie poet, quoted by Athenaeus, who wrote about A. D. 220, says: — We have invited two unequalled men, Philo-crates and eke Philocrates, — For that one man I always count as two, I don't know that I might not e'en say three. They say that once when he was asked to din
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
ing-gears. Hour-circle. （Globes.) A small brass circle fixed to the north pole, divided into twenty-four hours, and furnished with an index for pointing them out. Hour-glass. A glass having two bulbs and a connecting opening through which the sand in one bulb runs into the other. The amount of sand and size of the opening are such that a given amount of time is consumed in the passage. On an ancient bas-relief at Rome an hour-glass is placed in the hands of Morpheus, and Athenaeus says that the ancients carried portable hour-glasses with them as measurers of time. Glasses of this description are yet used for marking small periods of time; such as,— 1. The three-minute glass, or egg-glass, in which the sand passes in the time mentioned. 2. The half-minute glass used in ascertaining the rate of a ship by the log. The line is knotted at such intervals that the spaces bear the same relation to a nautical mile that the half-minute does to an hour. That is, t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
oods, metal, ivory, mother-of-pearl, etc., are inserted within portions of groundwork which are sunken to receive them, thus forming a sort of mosaic. We find specimens of inlaying of metals in the articles recovered from ancient Babylon. Overlaying was practiced by the same people. Herodotus states that Glaucus the Chian was the man who invented the art of inlaying steel. The salver made by Glaucus was offered by Alyattes the Lydian at the oracle of Delphi. It is described by Athenaeus as covered with representations of plants and animals. Alyattes was the father of Croesus, who reigned till defeated by Cyrus, 556 B. C. Under this head we may fairly refer to the Taj at Agra, the most beautiful building in the world. It is thus described by Sir Charles Dilke: — On the river bank [the Jumna], a mile from Akbar's palace, in the center of a vast garden entered through the noblest gateways in the world, stands the Taj Mahal, a terrace rising in dazzling whiteness f
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
less than 40,000 instruments were collected by Solomon for the service of the sanctuary, divided into different classes appropriate for each class of the services. With regard to the form and use of many instruments employed by the ancients, no authentic account remains. In many instances conjecture has been substituted for fact. They were generally used at festivals and religious ceremonies, are frequently mentioned by Ovid and other poets, and some are shown on ancient marbles. Athenaeus states that in the triumphal procession of Ptolemy Philadelphus there were 600 musicians in the chorus, 400 of whom played on the cithara or lyre. Then, as now, musical instruments were ranged in three great classes, — wind, string, and percussion. In Numbers, chap. XIX, the Hebrews are directed to sound trumpets on going into battle, and the walls of Jericho fell at the sound of the trumpet. This has been the warlike instrument of all nations from the earliest ages, except the Spart
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
he reconstruction of it given in Fig. 3423 is by Woodcroft, from the text of the Spiritalia. The descriptions of it by Athenaeus, Vitruvius, and Claudian render it certain that the pipes were musical, and blown by the force of water, instead of expansible air-bellows. An organ blown by wind-power, 150 B. C. Athenaeus thus describes it:– And Alcides said: But this engine, the hydraulic organ, whether you choose to class it among stringed instruments or among wind instruments, is tutes and organs, says that Ctesibus, the mechanician, wrote a book about the hydraulic. — From the Deipnosophists, by Athenaeus, A. D. 220. A fuller description of an organ of this kind may be found in Vitruvius. An organ with pipes of varyinvery difficult to open, but very easy to eat. The pearl-oyster of the Indian Ocean is mentioned by Theophrastus and Athenaeus, who speak of it as a precious stone resembling a large fish's eye, and that expensive necklaces are made of them for t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
e Japanese follow the same practice, adopting, however, a different style of tonsure. The Homeric heroes were bearded. The custom of letting the beard grow prevailed until the time of Alexander, when, according to Plutarch, in Lysander, and Athenaeus, the Greeks began to shave, and continued to do so until the time of Justinian. And this custom of shaving the beard originated in the age of Alexander, as Chrysippus tells us in the fourth book of his Treatise on the beautiful and on plg made you a man and not a woman. And at Rhodes there is a law against shaving, but no one minds it. And at Byzantium there is a law against barbers being possessed of razors, but they shave none the less. So says the admirable Chrysippus. — ATHENAeUS. Ctesippus, the fine son of Chabrias, Has ceased to shave himself three times a day. A great man among women, not with men. Timocles: quoted in the Deipnosophists. Ctesippus, the Brummel of his time, became a proverb:— And I, too, o
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