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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 4 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 2 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ng images of plaster of Paris. Argentum Musivum. Ar′gil. Potter's clay, from the Latin argilla; white clay. Ar′go-sy. A merchant-ship of the Mediterranean; specially of the Levant. The term is now antiquated. Ari-es. The battering-ram, so called because the metallic head of the beam was sometimes fashioned like the head of a ram. As a means of battering walls it is said to have been invented by Artemanes of Calzomene, a Greek architect, about 441 B. C. It is described by Josephus, who states that it was sometimes supported on the shoulders of men who advanced on a run; at other times it was slung from a frame, and operated by ropes. Philip of Macedon is said to have been the first to place the frame on wheels, at the siege of Byzantium. Plutarch informs us that Marc Antony, in the Parthian war, made use of an aries 80 feet long. Vitruvius says they were sometimes 106 to 120 feet in length. A-rith-mom′e-ter. An instrument for assisting in calculating. The<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
gs which acted as fenders to deaden the blow, by burning the framework, or by hurling missiles at the operators. See descriptions of Roman military engines, and Josephus. Assyrian antiquities upset the Greek claim of first invention. Battering-rams are shown in the sculptures of Nimroud. The machine is worked from within, upe library of Alexander was kept in two precincts of the city, the Brucheion and the Serapeum. It contained from 400,000 to 700,000 books. Authorities (Gellius, Josephus, and Seneca) differ. Ptolemies Soter, Philadelphus, and Euergetes were its patrons. Philadelphus added the famous library of Aristotle to the collection. It wnd the Piraeus of Athens were protected by moles, as were also those of Civita Vecehia, Ostia, Antium Misenus, and others among the Romans. We are informed by Josephus, that Herod, desiring to form a port on the coast of Syria, between Joppa and Dora, caused great stones, most of them 50 feet long by 10 wide and 9 deep, and som
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
all these vessels were of bright brass (bronze), and were cast in the plain of Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah. These utensils, together with the great sea of bronze which held 2,000 baths, required great skill in carving and casting, and are deemed very remarkable for the time at which they were executed. The surprise expressed arises from our own vanity and depreciation of the skill of those who preceded us a few thousands of years. The bath, as estimated by Josephus, was equal to 8 2/3 gallons (8.6696); according to the Rabbinical writers, 4 1/2 gallons nearly (4.4286); Smith estimates it at 7 1/2 gallons. Taking the lowest estimate, the brazen (bronze) sea of the temple court held over 9,000 gallons. The Chaldees broke it in pieces to remove it to Babylon, about 590 B. C. They estimated it only as so much metal; they carried the brass [bronze] of them to Babylon. This was a large vessel, and may well be believed of the time when works of art were
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ful energy of Alexander's mind seems to have comprehended all at a glance. He visited the little town of Rhacotis, saw his superb city as by a dream of enchantment, his Macedonian mantle covering the ground between the river and Lake Mareotis. He gave his orders to Dinocrates, the architect of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, settled the main details of the plan, and never saw the place again. The Pharos was 450 feet high, and the light was visible at a distance of 42 miles (300 stadia, Josephus). It was built of white marble, and cost 800 talents, $825,500, if the talents were Attic. It was formed in several stories, decreasing in dimensions towards the top, where fires were lighted in cressets. The ground-plan was hexagonal, the sides alternately concave and convex; each a stadium in length; the 2d and 3d stories were of the same form; the 4th was square, with a round tower at each angle; the 5th circular, continued to the top, to which a winding staircase conducted. The whole
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
Isles of Chittim (some western land on the African coast). The sails were fine linen of Egypt, the awnings of purple and blue fabric from the Isles of Elishah. Josephus identifies the descendants of Elishah, the eldest son of Javan, with the Aeolians. So Greece furnished the Tyrian dye. Lydia of Thyatira, a seller of purple, wat the psalter was not in fact an instrument, but that the term was applied merely to harmony produced by the voice in conjunction with instruments. According to Josephus, however, it was an instrument with twelve strings played on by the fingers. The general opinion is that it was a species of harp. The Hebrew drum, termed thmployed at an early period the horns of animals as musical instruments, and also made flutes from the leg bones of birds, as the crane and stork. According to Josephus, no less than 40,000 instruments were collected by Solomon for the service of the sanctuary, divided into different classes appropriate for each class of the ser
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
al of his victory in the same manner. The warlike Osymandyas or Sesostris recorded the memory of his marches and exploits. The obelisks of Heliopolis rise to celebrate the return of manly vigor to the convalescent king. Phallic monoliths over the Nile land decently perpetuate the symbols of their religion, and are inscribed with the names and deeds of those who erected them. Famous in olden times of these lithic monuments are the pillars erected by the children of Seth, as recorded by Josephus, and those erected by the Phoenician Hercules in the environs of Cadiz, monuments of his expedition into Spain. In the time of Demosthenes there was still remaining a column of stone on which the code of laws was engraved. The decalogue was carried in the ark for forty years, and thereafter remained for several centuries in various places, till it was placed in the temple of Solomon. The stones were thence carried as trophies to Babylon. Engraved gems of the times of the Pharaohs are