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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... give a spark . This is the primitive method preceding the flint and steel , which give a spark which is much hotter , and therefore easier to manage . Many early writers , including Virgil , who , in the Georgics , referred to ' man ...
... give a spark . This is the primitive method preceding the flint and steel , which give a spark which is much hotter , and therefore easier to manage . Many early writers , including Virgil , who , in the Georgics , referred to ' man ...
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... give per- formances of comedies and tragedies , to the great admiration of the audience ; and he also men- tioned that a Danish mathematician , Thomas Walgenstein , had given public performances of some kind in Rome a short while before ...
... give per- formances of comedies and tragedies , to the great admiration of the audience ; and he also men- tioned that a Danish mathematician , Thomas Walgenstein , had given public performances of some kind in Rome a short while before ...
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... give an appreciable lather , dry and rather sharp , though refreshing , to the hands . ( See also Baths . ) Refuge in the earth - house SOUTERRAINS or earth - houses are among the most exciting and least publicized of the an- cient ...
... give an appreciable lather , dry and rather sharp , though refreshing , to the hands . ( See also Baths . ) Refuge in the earth - house SOUTERRAINS or earth - houses are among the most exciting and least publicized of the an- cient ...
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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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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