 A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set down in...  A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ... - Page 507by Thousand notable things - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London - 1925 - 1108 pages
...leather label, uncut 1726 7/6 972 Worcester (The Marquis of) A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such INVENTIONS As at present I can call to mind to...powerful friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655. I2mo., rebound cloth, gilt, Glasgow, R. &• A. Faults, 1767 io/973 Wycherley (Wm.) Plays. Containing... | |
 | Francis Sydney Marvin - Civilization, Modern - 1919 - 378 pages
...steam-engine a hundred years before Watt. It is described in his Century of the Names and Scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected. The Marquis describes, but without much detail, two simple engines for raising water by the expansion... | |
 | Great Britain - 1921 - 584 pages
...plan, facsims. With reproduction of the original t.-p. of "A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." "Editions of the Century": p. 374-75. "Catalogue of early scientific works": p. 589-97. "Catalogue... | |
 | Great Britain - 1921 - 588 pages
...plan, facsims. With reproduction of the original t.-p. of "A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." "Editions of the Century": p. 374-75. "Catalogue of early scientific works": p. 589-97. "Catalogue... | |
 | American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) - Art - 1922 - 88 pages
...March, 1916, while President. 231. [WORCESTER (MARQUIS OF).] A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected. 16mo, old half calf (cracked). London: J. Grismond, 1663 The extremely rare FIRST EDITION of this notable... | |
 | Great Britain - 1923 - 576 pages
...of the famous 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1597-1667), whose A Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, etc., was printed in 1663, from notes made by him in 1655, his earlier ones having been lost. No. 62... | |
 | Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) - Great Britain - 1924 - 572 pages
...of the famous 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1597-1667), whose .4 Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, etc., was printed in 1663, from notes made by him in 1655, his earlier ones having been lost. No. 62... | |
 | Elections - 1926 - 328 pages
...steam-engine a hundred years before Watt. It is described in his Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, applied science was very busy, and its results were... | |
 | Werner Sombart - Capitalism - 1928 - 476 pages
...Gegenstücke dazu sind: E. Sommerset, Marquis of Worcester , A Century of the names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected usw., zuerst London I(j(i3, dann oft gedruckt, zuletzt in dem Werke von Henry Dircks, The Life, times... | |
 | Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - Learned institutions and societies - 1928 - 330 pages
...wealthy amateur not of pure but of applied science.180 In his Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, he gave evidences of at least one hundred (as the title says) different experiments he made, among... | |
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