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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ses. 4. A vessel containing a fluid metal or heated composition, as a lead-bath or sand-bath. Baths were long used in Oriental countries, and traveled by the route of Egypt to Greece. Homer mentions the use of the bath as an old custom. From Greece they reached Rome, imported, as it is said, by Agrippa. The thermae (hot baths) were very splendid, and adorned for a people who spent much leisure among the baths and their voluptuous accessories. The marble group of Laocoon was found in 1506 in the Baths of Titus, erected about A. D. 80; and the Farnese Hercules in the Baths of Caracalla, erected A. D. 217. A rollicking Greek thus writes: — And lately baths, too, have been introduced, — things which formerly men would not have permitted to exist inside a city. And Antiphanes points out their injurious character: — Plague take the bath! just see the plight In which the thing has left me; It seems t'have boil'd me up, and quite Of strength and nerve bereft me. Don<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
s third voyage carries him to the Orinoco, and the volume of water encourages a hope that the gap is found. During the next year, 1499, Vasco da Gama anchors in the Tagus with trophies from Cacutta; the Portuguese have turned the Venetian position, and the trade is their own. The western essays have yet been fruitless, for no India has been reached, and the fourth voyage of Columbus, in 1502, in which he reaches Central America, is yet barren to him, for no strait is found. Columbus died in 1506, supposing that he had discovered India, though surprised at not being able to make connection with the eastern voyagers and the land of Marco Polo's adventures. In 1500 he asserted that, if any one does not give him credit for having discovered the remaining parts of India, it must be from personal hostility. In 1502 he writes to Pope Alexander, I discovered 1,400 islands and 333 leagues of the coast of Asia. Above is a representation of the western hemisphere of John Schoner's globe of