 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 362 páginas
...small book, entitled, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as I can at present call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my...the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put them in practice." To... | |
 | 1851 - 604 páginas
...his work he has left a record, couched in mysterious language, in the well-known volume entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored now, in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1851 - 348 páginas
...small book, entitled, "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as I can at present call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my...the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put them in practice." To... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 páginas
...— 1663. 199. Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, published, in 1663, a small work, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have Tried and Perfected," <fec. In this work, (in which, he says, the descriptions are " in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 páginas
...year 1663, a work was published by the Marquis of Worcester, named, in the language of that period, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." The following extract, describing what he terms a " fire water-work," seems distinctly to convey the... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 páginas
...who bad undergone many changes of fortune in the civil wars of England, published a work entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." Amongst the numerous... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1854 - 334 páginas
...differing opinions have been given. The very name of this work is whimsical, and yet not unattractive : " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...Friend, endeavoured now, in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently Instruct me to put any of them in Practice : Artis et... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...differing opinions have been given. The very name of this work is whimsical, and yet not unattractive: " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured no\v, in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently Instruct me to put any... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1874 - 904 páginas
...numerous illustrations of machinery and processes. 4103 WOKCESTEK (Marquis of) CESTUBY OF INVENTIONS; a Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, very scarce, Glasgow, 1767 — Locke (J.) Elements of Natural Philosophy, and Thoughts on Reading and... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 páginas
...which he was not released till the restoration of the monarchy. In 1663, he published a work called " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored, now in the year 1655, to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put... | |
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A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down... 
