A History of Inventions and Discoveries, 4. cilt

according acquainted ancients appears appellation Arrian assertion Avicenna belong Biblioth called Cange century Chalybes clothing colour Columella conjecture Conrad Gesner considered copper cynosarges Dioscorides doubt dresses Du Cange dyeing edition Einbeck emperor employed England established expressly fire fire-engines forks foundling hospital Francof French fur clothing furs German Geschichte given glass gold Greeks gruit Herodotus Hist hops hose hospitals Indicum indigo invention Italian Italy kind knit known latter loom lottery manganese manner means mentioned metal obtained occurs oldest opinion Paris passage pelles perhaps period plants Plin Pliny present printed probable proof proved quæ quam quod quoted regard remarked Romans sal ammoniac salt says seems sesterces silk silver skins speaks species stannum steel stockings stone Strabo Suidas Theophrastus thing tion translation vessels woad word writers δε