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for altitude and azimuth. Galileo invented the binocular telescope with which he experimented in the harbor of Leghorn on a vessel in rough weather in the year 1617, with a view to the more convenient observation of Jupiter's satellites on board ship. The invention has usually been attributed to the Capuchin monk Schyrleus deewhat to pressure and then retain its form. The vellum was then dried in position. 3. A copy of John Minsheu's folio dictionary Ductor in Linguas, published in 1617, and dedicated to James I. It was formerly in the library of Charles I., is bound in buff leather, and has the arms and crown on both sides of the cover. The bich name the ornamental clasp appears in the King James version of the Bible, Exodus XXVIII. 11, XXXIX. 18, and in other places. See Minshieu's Ductor in Linguas, 1617; Phillips's World of words, 1658. See also the same passages in the Bishop's and Coverdale's versions. In the Wickliffe version it is rendered hookes. The ouc
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
g with the surface by a rigid tube, up and down which persons might pass. Projecting sleeves and hooks afforded means for directing grapnels to sunken property. Beckmann mentions a print in Vegetius on War, published in 1511 and 1532, representing a diver with his cap, from which rises a long leather pipe provided with an opening above the surface of the water. Lorini on Fortification, 1607, shows a square box, bound with iron, furnished with windows and a seat for the diver. Kessler in 1617, Witsen in 1671, and Borelli in 1679, gave attention to the subject and contributed to the efficiency of the apparatus. A diving-bell company was formed in England in 1688, and the operators made some sucessful descents on the coast of Hispaniola. In 1664, cannon were recovered from wrecks of the Spanish Armada by the Laird of Melgim, near the Isle of Man, but not sufficient to pay. Previous unsuccessful attempts had been made by Colquhoun, of Glasgow, who depended for air upon a leathern
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
ed from the bar, which was reduced by hand to the proper size. In 1606, Sir Davis Bulmer obtained letters-patent for a machine for cutting nail-rods by water-power. The details of his invention are unknown, no records of English patents prior to 1617 existing. In 1618, Clement Dawbeny patented an improvement on Bulmer's machine, its object being to remedy the waste that comonly grewe and happened of the iron which was usually cutt into the said small rodd by reason of the often heating, vnatells me the mighty use of Napier's bones, so that I will have a pair presently. — Pepys's Diary, 1667. They were first described by the inventor, John, Lord Napier of Murcheston, in his Rabdologiae seu Numerationes per virgulas, Libri duo, ed. 1617. A moon dial, with Napier's bones, And several constellation stones. Hudibras. Na′pier's Com′pass. A draftsman's compass, to one leg of which is pivoted a plain point and pencil-holder, and to the other a plain point and pen. These<