Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... Middle Ages soap was more widely known , made and applied , though still with a medical tinge ; thus a recipe for soap sur- vives from Anglo - Saxon leechcraft of the ninth century . Nonetheless , demand increased . Soap from the ...
... Middle Ages soap was more widely known , made and applied , though still with a medical tinge ; thus a recipe for soap sur- vives from Anglo - Saxon leechcraft of the ninth century . Nonetheless , demand increased . Soap from the ...
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... Middle Ages when the weaver could command only fifteen or twenty tones . In the middle of the eighteenth century the French painter Oudry , artistic head of the Go- belins factory , insisted upon exact reproductions of the painted ...
... Middle Ages when the weaver could command only fifteen or twenty tones . In the middle of the eighteenth century the French painter Oudry , artistic head of the Go- belins factory , insisted upon exact reproductions of the painted ...
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... Dark Ages and Early Middle Ages had no well among their beehive huts , only two dip- wells , which store the faintest trickle of water . In the Isles of Scilly as late as the eighteenth century islanders were content to drink water from ...
... Dark Ages and Early Middle Ages had no well among their beehive huts , only two dip- wells , which store the faintest trickle of water . In the Isles of Scilly as late as the eighteenth century islanders were content to drink water from ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
Urheberrecht | |
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