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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 2 2 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
icks instead of forks. Bronze forks were used by the Egyptian priests in presenting offerings to the gods. Two of them exhumed at Sakkarah are in the Abbott collection. A fork is mentioned in the accounts of Edward I., and is supposed to have been brought from the East by a returning crusader. Voltaire says that they were used by the Lombards in the fourteenth century; and Martius states that they were common in Italy in the fifteenth century. Table-forks are heard of in Italy from 1458 to 1490. An Italian at the court of Matthias Corvinas, king of Hungary, notices the lack of the fork in the table furniture of the king. A century after, they were not known in France or Sweden. Coryat, in his Crudities, 1611, says: I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through which I passed, that is not vsed in any other country that I saw in my traules, neither doe I think that any other nation in Christendome doth vse it, but only Italy. The Italians and also mos
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
dows of colored glass in the fourth century of our era. Jerome, A. D. 422, states that glass was melted and cast into plates for windows. In the sixth century Paulus Silentarius notices that the windows of the Church of St. Sophia at Constantinople were glazed. The oldest glass windows now in existence are of the twelfth century, and are in the church of St. Denis, France. In the thirteenth century, the Venetians exceeded all others in glass-making. Aeneas Sylvius states that, in 1458, the houses in Vienna had glass windows. He regarded it as a sign of opulence. In France, church windows were generally glazed in the sixteenth century, though there were but few glass windows in private dwellings. Talc, isinglass, horn, oiled paper, and thinly shaved leather were generally used instead of glass throughout the civilized world. Blue glass, colored by the addition of cobalt to the frit, was discovered about 1550 by Christopher Schurer of Platten, Bohemia. Glass wa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
im to be the inventor of separate wooden types rests upon the testimony of Adrian Young, rector of the Latin School of Haarlem about 1570. It is said that he tied with string his form of separate wooden types. It is more probable, from some existing specimens, that he sometimes cut blocks of a few words or lines to print portions of a page or add inscriptions to cuts. A claim has also been put in for John Mentilius of Strasburg. Janson of France, an engraver of coins and medals, about 1458, seems to have observed the process and subsequently practiced it in Venice, where he published the Decor Puellarum and Gloria Mulierum, in 1471. He determined the form and proportions of the present Roman character. It may be mentioned that, as at first practiced in Europe, sheets were printed on but one side and the backs of the pages pasted together. At first, also, spaces were left for the illuminated capital letters, which were put in by hand. The art was carried to France in 146