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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 54 54 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) 6 6 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 5 5 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone 3 3 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) 3 3 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) 2 2 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) 1 1 Browse Search
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) 1 1 Browse Search
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tten by a grandson of Aaron. The book of the law in all synagogues is thus mounted. Another ancient mode, the precursor of the more modern system, is found in the mode of stringing leaves together by several cords passing through holes near one edge. This is practiced in India with pieces of leaves neatly cut to a size. See paper; pen. The present plan of fastening the leaves to a back and sides is believed to have been invented by Attalus, of Pergamus, or his son Eumenes, about 200 B. C. This king, or somebody for him, invented parchment, hence called pergamena, from Pergamus. It was devised as a substitute for papyrus, on which an embargo had been laid by Ptolemy of Egypt, who thus sought to embarrass the rival library in Asia Minor. The oldest bound book known is the volume of St. Cuthbert, circa 650. Ivory was used for book covers in the eighth century; oak in the ninth. The Book of Evangelists, on which the English kings took their coronation oath, was bound in
The volumes composing this latter were written largely on parchment, and, according to the old story, this material was invented or discovered by Eumenes, about 200 B. C., in consequence of a prohibition laid on the exportation of papyrus from Egypt, due to the fact that one of the Ptolemies wished to have no rivals in the matter ined the matter for his Persian history from the royal parchments or skins. The invention of parchment is, however, ascribed to Eumenes, king of Pergamos, about 200 B. C. For notices of papyrus and parchment, see paper. The former instances particularly concern the use of the stylus. That of the pen proper will now claim Orrery and obtained celebrity. It received its name from Steele, who wrote a description of it. The first recorded planetarium was made by Archimedes, about 200 B. C. It must have been constructed after the geocentric system, which then obtained, — the earth in the center, and so on. A planetarium constructed at Florence in