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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 20 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 6 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), J. (search)
. 2. A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and an attached hook. A ball of light metal on a hook. Jig′ger. 1. (Pottery.) a. A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped. A potters'-wheel; a throwing wheel. b. A templet or former which is used in shaping the interior of a crucible or other vessel when the clay is upon the wheel. See Fig. 1536, supra. See also Lecons de Ceramique, Vol. II. p. 122 et al.; also Feldspath Porcellan, Weimar, 1835, Figs. 79, 80, 82, Taf. VII. 2. (Felting.) To harden and condense a felted fabric by repeated quick blows from rods, or by a platen or platens having a rapid vibratory motion. A machine for felting fiber by an intermittent rolling action upon the material, which lies upon a table, and is kept warm and wet. 3. (Nautical.) a. A double and single blocktackle, used for such jobs as holding on to the cable, abaft the capstan, as the cable is heaved in. Also used in hauling hom
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
edly unknown to Vespucci, the geographer Waldseemuller (Martinus Hylacomylus) of Freiburg in the Brisgau, the director of a printing establishment at St Die in Lorraine, in a small work entitled Cosmographiae Introductio insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii Navigationes. The map of the new continent drawn by Hylacomylus, and contained in this edition, presents the first instance of the name of America in the editions of Ptolemy's Geography. It is a great error to regard the map of 1527, now in Weimar, obtained from the Ebner library at Nuremberg, and the map of 1529 of Diego Ribero, engraved by Gussfeld, as the oldest maps of the new continent. Vespucci had visited the coasts of South America in 1499 (a year after Columbus's third voyage), in the expedition of Alonso de Hojeda. He could not have had any motive in feigning a voyage in 1497, for he, as well as Columbus, was firmly persuaded until his death that his discoveries were a part of Eastern Asia. For more than 20 years after h