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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... mentioned by Varro and Columella , are still made . In some areas beekeeping may have begun actually in standing trees . In Polesye in Eastern Europe peasants in the last century kept their bees in hollow standing trunks . A later ...
... mentioned by Varro and Columella , are still made . In some areas beekeeping may have begun actually in standing trees . In Polesye in Eastern Europe peasants in the last century kept their bees in hollow standing trunks . A later ...
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... mentioned as a novelty . In the former , the light - rays entered through a convex lens in the side of the stem of the goblet and were reflected by a small mirror fixed behind the lens on to the surface of the wine ( which had to be ...
... mentioned as a novelty . In the former , the light - rays entered through a convex lens in the side of the stem of the goblet and were reflected by a small mirror fixed behind the lens on to the surface of the wine ( which had to be ...
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... mentioned in the ordinance was only a term of account . It did not exist then as an actual coin . ' Apothecaries ' goods ' are mentioned for the first time in an English statute of the Realm as being weighed by the same weight as the ...
... mentioned in the ordinance was only a term of account . It did not exist then as an actual coin . ' Apothecaries ' goods ' are mentioned for the first time in an English statute of the Realm as being weighed by the same weight as the ...
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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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