 | Sir William Gell - 1837 - 384 Seiten
...first imagined. Not to mention the description of a burning glass in the Nubes of Aristophanes, v. 764, the collection which Mr. Dodwell first formed and brought into notice at Rome by repolishing the fragments, is sufficient to prove that specimens of every known marble, and of many... | |
 | Wilhelm Adolf Becker - 1844 - 456 Seiten
...first imagined. Not to mention the description of a burning-glass in the Nubes of Aristophanes, v. 764, the collection which Mr Dodwell first formed and brought into notice at Rome by repolishmg the fragments, is sufficient to prove that specimens of every known marble, and of many... | |
 | Nathaniel Fish Moore - 1859 - 258 Seiten
...so well counterfeited that the fraud can scarcely be detected. (See Min. des Gens du Monde, p. 135.) it of a crystalline purity ;* shaped it by blowing...at Rome, a chrysolite and an emerald ; factitious, both of them, but perfectly well executed ; perfectly transparent, and colored throughout, and free... | |
 | Nathaniel Fish Moore - 1859 - 268 Seiten
...fraud can scarcely be detected. (See Min. des Gens du Monde, p. 135.) it of a crystalline purity ; l shaped it by blowing ; ground it in the lathe; and...almost every known marble and every sort of precious stone. 3 Beckmann speaks4 of two ancient gems in the Museum Victorium at Rome, a chrysolite and an... | |
 | Wilhelm Adolf Becker - 1873 - 564 Seiten
...first imagined. Not to mention the description of a burning-glass in the Nuba of Aristophanes, v. 764, the collection which Mr Dodwell first formed and brought into notice at Home bv repolishing the fragments, is sufficient to prove that specimens of every known marble, and... | |
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Rome by repolishing the fragments, is sufficient to prove that specimens of every known marble, and of many not now existing in cabinets, as well as every sort of precious stone, were commonly and most successfully imitated by the ancients, who used these... 