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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... described a hand of moulded leather or ' papier colle ' for those with a partial hand amputation ; a short tube was fixed between the forefinger and thumb , and into this a pen could be stuck to enable the wearer to write . Probably ...
... described a hand of moulded leather or ' papier colle ' for those with a partial hand amputation ; a short tube was fixed between the forefinger and thumb , and into this a pen could be stuck to enable the wearer to write . Probably ...
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... described in 1556 in Georg Agricola's mining treatise De re metal- lica . This German scientist described the rod as an instrument for finding metals , but made no men- tion of the search for water . The value of the method , he says ...
... described in 1556 in Georg Agricola's mining treatise De re metal- lica . This German scientist described the rod as an instrument for finding metals , but made no men- tion of the search for water . The value of the method , he says ...
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... described by the Indian physician and surgeon Suśruta in the sixth century B.C. The instruments used in trephining , or remov- ing a circular disc of bone from the cranium , one of the oldest operations of surgery which was carried out ...
... described by the Indian physician and surgeon Suśruta in the sixth century B.C. The instruments used in trephining , or remov- ing a circular disc of bone from the cranium , one of the oldest operations of surgery which was carried out ...
Inhalt
GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Ambroise Paré ancient Arabic bath became blade bone Britain Bronze Age built carved century A.D. China Chinese cloth colour cylinder developed dirhem earliest early East Egypt Egyptian eighteenth century engine England English Euripides Europe feet fibres fire flint fountain pen France glass gold grains Greece Greek grotto hand horse ILLUSTRATION inches instrument internal-combustion engine invented Iron Age King known lamp later London machine material medieval ment mesolithic Mesopotamia metal Middle Ages millennium B.C. modern Mohenjo-daro Museum Mycenaean neolithic nineteenth century painted palaeolithic patented plough Pound printed produced razor Roman rope round round barrow rubber safety-pin seventeenth century shape sickle silk silver sixteenth century sledges soap steam stone Sumerian tapestry teeth thermoscope thread tion toothpick totem totem poles Tower Pound tree Troy Troy Pound tube turn tury tyres weight wheel wood wooden ziggurat