Palissy the Potter: The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes, His Labors and Discoveries in Art and Science, with an Outline of His Philosophical Doctrines, and a Translation of Illustrative Selections from His Works, Band 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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Seite 96 - Discours admirables de la nature des eaux et fontaines, tant naturelles qu'artificielles, des métaux, des sels et salines, des pierres, des terres, du feu et des émaux; avec plusieurs autres excellents secrets des choses naturelles.
Seite 161 - They tell us that these shells were formed in the hills by the influence of the stars ; but I ask where in the hills are the stars now forming shells of distinct ages and species? and how can the stars explain the origin of gravel, occurring at different heights, and composed of pebbles rounded as if by the motion of running water ; or in what manner can such a cause account for the petrifaction in the same places of various leaves, sea-weeds, and marine crabs...
Seite 238 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Seite 213 - I was forced to go again and purchase pots, in order to prove the said compound — seeing that I had lost all the vessels which I had made myself. And having covered the new pieces with the said enamel, I put them into the furnace, keeping the fire still at its height...
Seite 117 - A process of assimilation goes on in it as well as in animated bodies. Every particle of it is alive. It possesses instinct and volition even to the most elementary of its molecules, which attract and repel each other according to sympathies and antipathies.
Seite 113 - Lyell has shown that the central heat required according to the theory is incompatible with the solidity of the surface, and suggests the much more rational doctrine that, " Instead of an original central heat, we may perhaps refer the heat of the interior to chemical changes constantly going on in the earth's crust ; for the general effect of chemical combination is the evolution of heat and electricity, which in their turn become sources of new chemical changes.
Seite 217 - ... that when one passed the hand over it, the said flints cut like razors. And although the work was in this way lost, there were still some who would buy it at a mean price ; but, because that would have been a decrying and abasing of my honour, I broke in pieces the entire batch from the said furnace, and lay down in melancholy — not without cause, for I had no longer any means to feed my family. I had nothing but reproaches in the house ; in place of consolation, they gave me maledictions....
Seite 221 - I have been for several years, when, without the means of covering my furnaces, I was every night at the mercy of the rains and winds, without receiving any help, aid, or consolation, except from the owls that screeched on one side, and the dogs that howled upon the other ; sometimes there would arise winds and storms, which blew in such a manner up and down my furnaces, that I was constrained to quit the whole with loss of my labour, and several times have found that having quitted all, and having...
Seite 208 - God had gifted me with some knowledge of drawing; and thereafter, regardless of the fact that I had no knowledge of clays, I began to seek for the enamels as a man gropes in the dark.
Seite 139 - Hard water, drawn fresh from the well, will assuredly make the coat of a horse unaccustomed to it stare, and it will not unfrequently gripe and otherwise injure him. Instinct or experience has made even the horse himself conscious of this, for he will never drink hard water if he has access to soft ; he will leave the most transparent and pure water of the well for a river, although the water may be turbid, and even for the muddiest pool.