Ancient Mineralogy: Or, An Inquiry Respecting Mineral Substances Mentioned by the AncientsG. & C. Carvill & Company, 1834 - 192 Seiten |
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Seite 42 - citizen, in gratitude for his having, by the influence of his verse, rekindled the warlike spirit of the people ; and his battle songs were chanted by the Spartan bands as they advanced " In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.
Seite 31 - He uses the terms iron and brass indifferently, in a figurative sense, as emblematic of something stern and hard : "I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass
Seite 32 - thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Seite 39 - made of late years in the ancient Scandinavian tumuli. " There are swords, daggers, and knives, the blades of which are of gold, whilst an edge of iron is formed for the purpose of cutting. Some of the tools and weapons are formed principally of copper, with edges of iron ; and in many of the
Seite 92 - and, although Beckmann maintains the opposite opinion, the grounds on which he rests his argument do not always bear him out. He observes that "there are two properties with which the ancients might have accidentally become acquainted, and which in that case would have been sufficient to make known or define to us this salt (the
Seite 40 - the profuse application of copper and of gold, when contrasted with the parsimony evident in the expenditure of iron, seems to prove that at the unknown period, and among the unknown people who raised the tumuli which antiquarian research has lately explored, gold as well as copper were much more abundant products than iron.
Seite 51 - name was extended to what the Germans call offenbruch, furnace calamine ; which in melting ores that contain zinc, or in making brass, falls to the bottom of the furnace, and contains more or less of calcined zinc.
Seite 43 - The Parthian steel ranks next with Pliny, and these two kinds only " mera acie temperantur." Daimachus, a writer contemporary with Alexander the Great, speaks of four different kinds of steel, and the purposes to which they were severally suited.
Seite 46 - JEschines, Demosthenes—in philosophy, Plato and Aristotle, not to mention Socrates, the great teacher and master of them all ; nor the many others, who, though distinguished for the arts of war or peace, do not now properly come under our consideration ; as Themistocles, Aristides and Cimon—Pericles, Alcibiades and Phocion—Phidias, Myro and
Seite 156 - certainly there is no one stone to which the description of jasper could be applied ; but in this case, as in others, it is evident that several different minerals were comprehended under a single name. One variety specified by Pliny, "stellata rutilis punctis,