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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
orshippers of Persia, have not been properly examined or determined; but the holy fires of Baku, on the shore of the Caspian, have attained some celebrity, and are maintained by a natural stream of carbureted hydrogen. Paracelsus remarked the disengagement of gas when iron was dissolved in sulphuric acid. Van Helmont, a Belgian chemist, gave it the name of gas, and distinguished gases from atmospheric air, and also, on account of their non-condensibility, from vapors. Van Helmont died in 1644. Oxygen was first discovered by Dr. Priestley in 1774; he obtained it by heating red oxide of mercury, and called it dephlogisticated air. Scheele and Lavoisier a year or two later made the same discovery, independently of the English inventor, as Humboldt thinks. It was termed empyreal air by Scheele; vital air by Cordorcet. The name oxygen was given to it by Lavoisier. Black and Cavendish, in 1766, showed that carbonic acid (fixed air) and hydrogen gas (combustible air) are speci
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
the telescope is credited by Whewell to Huyghens, Malvasia, and Azout. It was a great advance in the attempt to do by accuracy of measurement what had previously been attempted, and in part accomplished, by enlarging the instrument so as to enable the measurements of smaller arcs. The first micrometer on record is that of Gascoigne of England, constructed about 1640, and used by him in measuring the diameters of the moon and some of the planets. The inventor perished in the civil war, 1644. The instrument had nicely ground parallel edges of brass plate, and parallel hairs were substituted by the renowned Dr. Hooke. Huyghens, about 1652, measured the diameter of a planet by inserting in the tube of the telescope, at the focus of the object-glass and eye-glass, a slip of metal which covered exactly the image of the planet, and then deduced the diameter by the breadth of the slip compared with the breadth of the field. Malvasia, shortly after, employed a network of fine sil
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
earliest productions were Peirce's New England Almanack, and the Bay Psalm Book, and there was afterward printed that monument of labor, Eliot's Indian Bible. The complaints of insufficient land led to extensive grants of territory, until from 1644 to 1655 Cambridge attained enormous dimensions, including the whole areas of Brighton and Newton on the south side of the river, and on the other hand in a northwesterly direction the whole or large parts of Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, and Bill governed by a squaw sachem. The land occupied by Cambridge was bought of this tribe, apparently for £ 10 beside an annual present of a coat to the squaw sachem during her lifetime. The relations between white men and red men were friendly. In 1644, these Mystic Indians voluntarily put themselves under the protection and jurisdiction of the English government at Boston. Eliot's first sermon to the Indians was preached in 1646 at Nonantum, south of Charles River, and at that time within the
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
that it was written by the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. Its four hundred lines in ballad quatrains are very bad verse, however, and, though it has been termed A manly plea for toleration in an age of intolerance, there is still question as to whether it was actually published in the author's lifetime and, consequently, whether Folger ran any risk. The most important piece of historical verse in this period was the work of the first native-born American poet, Benjamin Tompson (1644-1714), who, as his tombstone at Roxbury informs us, was a learned schoolmaster and physician and the renowned poet of New England, and is mortuus sed immortalis. His chief production, New England's Crises, is a formal attempt at an epic on King Philip's War. The prologue pictures early society in New England and recounts the decadence in manners and morals that has brought about the crisis,--the war as God's punishment. The six hundred and fifty lines of pentameter couplets are somewhat mor
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
& Co. are the American publishers of Bret Harte's Complete works. Chronological table: events in American and English history and literature. English 1603-1625. James I. 1608. Milton born. 1610-1614. Chapman's Homer. 1611. The King James Bible. 1616. Shakespeare died. 1623. The Shakespeare Folio. 1625-1649. Charles I. 1625. Bacon's Esays. 1626. Bacon died. 1632. Milton's L'allegro andIl Penseroso. 1642. Beginning of Civil War. 1642. Newton born. 1644. Milton's Areopagitica. 1649. Charles I. executed. 1649-1660. The Commonwealth. 1658. Cromwell died. 1660-1686. Charles II. 1663-1678. Butler's Hudibra. 1667. Milton's Paradise Lot. 1667. Swift born. 1670. Dryden Poet-Laureate. 1671. Milton's Paradise Regained, 1671. and Samson Agonises. 1674. Milton and Herrick died. 1678-1684. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progres. 1685-1688. James II. 1688. The English Revolution. 1688. Pope and Gay born. 1700. Dryden d
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
e on account of his bookish inclination. Custom and finally statute in most of the colonies required that all such apprentices should be taught to read and write, as the early Massachusetts and Pennsylvania laws had dictated from the first. The colonial elementary school received little attention in written records except in the minutes of ecclesiastical bodies and in town records. In these references the records of Massachusetts towns are particularly rich. The town of Salem ordered in 1644 that a rate be published on next lecture day that such as have children to be kept at school would bring in their names and what they will give for one whole year, and also that if any poor body hath children, or a child, that the town will pay for it by rate. The first part of this town order indicates the method by which the earliest schools were generally supported—that of voluntary contribution. The last clause of the entry constitutes probably the first instance in America of legal pro
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
have I been ready to lay down my ministry, thinking God had forsaken me. I was almost in the suburbs of hell all day. Yet who can say that this habit of agonizing introspection wholly shut out the trivial enjoyments of daily life? Who drank, for instance, those twelve gallons of sack and those six gallons of white wine which the General Court thought it convenient that the Auditor should send, as a small testimony of the Court's respect, to the reverend assembly of Elders at Cambridge, in 1644? Did the famous Cambridge Platform rest, like the earth in the Hebrew cosmology, upon the waters,--strong waters? Was it only the Derry Presbyterians who would never give up a p'int of doctrine nor a pint of rum? It is startling to remember that in 1685 it was voted, on occasion of a public funeral, that some person be appointed to look after the burning of the wine and the heating of the cider, and to hear that on this occasion there were thirty-two gallons of wine and still more of cider
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
1641 7l of venison0.1.2 [1643.]Payd our brother Manninge for a belrope A similar purchase was made in 1640.0.1.6 Item payd Elder Frost for a years allowance wch was due at midsomer in the yeare 1643, I say pd him by 10l.10.0.0 Payd on for looking to goody Alborne 4 weeks (she found herself)0.12.0 Sent our sister Albone 1 bottell sack 11d.0.0.11 [ Elder Frost, brother Banbrick, brother Syll, sister Maninge and sister Stephenson, each received a similar benefaction during this year.] [1644.]Payd Mr. Palsgrave for physic for our sister Albone0.2.6 For 4 years rent for our sister Albone (besides 5 months time allowed her for about 7s. charge in repayer wch she did) I say 4 years4.0.0 [1645.]For cloth for Ben. Eaton for 2 shirts 3s. 4d.0.3.4 1 pr shoes for Ben Eaton cost 22d. 1 pr cost 14d.0.3.0 Payd our brother Briggam for something for clothinge for his sone 0.7.6 Payd brother Chesholme for nessessaryes he layd out for Ben. Eatons clothes0.6.6 Payd for a goat for goody Alb
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
638. Gregory Stone, 1638. Samuel Shepard, 1639, 1640, 1644, 1645. Nath. Sparhawk, 1642-1644, 1646, 1647. Edward Go1644, 1646, 1647. Edward Goffe, 1646, 1650. Edward Jackson, 1647-1654, 1656, 1665-1668, 1675, 1676. Daniel Gookin, 1649, 1651. Speaker in 16519, 1641, 1643, 1645. John Bridge, 1635, 1637-1639, 1641– 1644, 1646, 1647, 1649, 1652. Clement Chaplin, 1635. Nicho Andrews, 1635, 1640. Richard Jackson, 1636, 1637, 1641, 1644, 1654, 1656. Edward Goffe, 1636, 1637, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1646-1655. Simon Crosby, 1636, 1638. Barnabas Lamson, 1636. Edward Winship, 1637, 1638, 1642– 1644, 1646, 161644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1651, 1662, 1663, 1673, 1682, 1684. George Cooke, 1638, 1642, 1643. Samuel Shepard, 1638. Joseph Isaac, 1. Thomas Parish, 1639, 1640. Thomas Marritt, 1639-1641, 1644, 1646, 1647. John Moore,* 1639. Thomas Brigham, 1639, 1640. Edward Collins,* 1641. Roger Shaw, 1641, 1642, 1644, 1645. John Russell, 1642, 1643,.1648. Edward Oakes,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
t Tompson, 1640, and (2) to Ann Boradell, about 1644; he left a numerous family, and among his descee m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburne, 14 Ap. 1644, by whom he had three children. Besides these,Roger, (in the margin written Foord), d. 24 Ap. 1644. No further record of this family, whose name 1621. He is supposed to have arrived in Boston 1644, in which year he was admitted freeman. He resne, had Joseph, b. 28 Dec. 1639; Luke, b. 6 Ap. 1644; Anna, b. 30 Sept. 16145; Abiah, b. 3 Ap. 1618;swall; Hannah, b. 1642, d. 1653; John, b. 2 Ap. 1644, res. in Boston; Thomas, b. 10 Feb. 1645-6. Joo Hartford, where Hinman says he was a Juror in 1644. Rose, John, d. 12 Dec. 1640. Richard m. Hu and of the Connecticut Colony; Selectman 1643, 1644, and 1648; Deputy to the General Court 1637– 1643, represented Sudbury in the General Court in 1644, and was several years chairman of the Selectmell, Thomas, was a Selectman of Dorchester 1642, 1644, 1652; rem. to Cambridge Village (now Newton) a[18 more...]
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