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ake their groans simulate the bellowing of the animal. The artist was made to furnish the first victim, and the king eventually tried the experiment in person, 549 B. C. The helmet of Psammitichus the Powerful was of brass, and from it he poured the libation in the Tem- ple of Vulcan, which condemned him to temporary isolation in the marshes of the Delta, but ended in his making the acquaintance of some Ionian and Carian freebooters, who assisted in placing him on the throne of Egypt, 650 B. C. Brass was known to the Greeks as orichalcum or mountain-bronze. Afterwards corrupted by the Romans into aurichalcum, from a supposition, derived from its color, that it had gold in its composition. Brasses (Composition of). Brass.Copper.Zinc.Tin.Nickel.Lead.Glass.Silver. German brass (common)11 Good yellow brass21 Brass wire21 Muntz's sheathing-metal32 Red brass, to be soldered83 Common brass31 Pinchbeck41 Revere's sheathing-metal (1830）955 Collins's red alloy for sheath
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h uniformity. — Herodotus II. 4. These [Egyptians] of Thebes seem most accurately to have observed the eclipses of the sun and moon; and from them do so manage their prognostications that they certainly foretell every future event. — Diodorus Siculus (60 B. C.). The Egyptians had the true heliocentric theory of the solar system, which the Greeks could not receive, and which was revived twenty centuries afterwards by Copernicus. It was a great event for Europe when Psammeticus, about 650 B. C., opened the ports of Egypt to the other Mediterranean nations, and encouraged the Ionians and Carians to settle there. The horoscopus, who occupied the second place in the procession of the Egyptian priests, carried a horologium, or sun-dial. The dial is mentioned in the book of Tobit, which is supposed to have been written by a Jew of Palestine, detailing the experiences of an Israelite of the tribe of Naphthali, who lived in Nineveh in the reigns of Shalmanezer and Sennacherib.