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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
nt into a four-sided form and brazed together at the corners. One of these, said to have belonged to St. Patrick, is preserved in the city of Belfast. For a long period they were made of comparatively small size. One in a church at Orleans, in the eleventh century, weighed 2,600 pounds, and was considered as remarkably large at that time. During the thirteenth century much larger bells began to be cast. The Jacqueline, at Paris, cast in 1300, weighed 15,000 pounds; one cast at Paris in 1472 weighed 15,000 pounds; and the bell of Rouen, cast in 1501, weighed over 36,000 pounds. One of the pieces in my collection which I the most highly value is the silver bell [made by Benvenuto Cellini] with which the Popes used to curse the caterpillars, — a ceremony, I believe, now abandoned. Lahontan, in his travels, mentions a like absurd custom in Canada, the solemn excommunication by the bishop of the turtle-doves, which greatly injured the plantations. For this bell I exchanged with
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
de Spire. The name and residence of the inventor of signatures are doubtful; it appears they were inserted into an edition of Terence, printed at Milan in 1470, by Anthony Zorat. And an edition of Baldi Lectura super Codic, etc., was printed at Venice by John de Colonia and Jo. Manthen de Gherretzem, anno 1474; it is in folio, and the signatures are not introduced till the middle of the book, and then continued throughout. Abbe Reve ascribed the discovery to John Koelhof, at Cologne, in 1472. They were used at Paris in 1476, and by Caxton in 1480. Si-le′Si-A. （Fabric.) A linen made in Germany. Si′lex. See silica. Sil′hou-ette. A profile or outline representation of an object filled in with black. The inner parts are sometimes touched up with lines of lighter color, and shadows are indicated by a brightening of gum or other lustrous medium. The invention has been ascribed to the daughter of Dibutades, a potter of Corinth, who drew the outline of the shad