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" 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 these down... "
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the ... - Page 91
by John Burke - 1832
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Catalogue, Issues 250-255

Pickering & Chatto - 1928 - 786 pages
...vols., 410, russia, extra, marbled edges. £18 18s SOMERSET (EDWARD, Earl and Marquis of Worcester). ] A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...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 these down in...
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English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century, Volume 2

Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1928 - 1028 pages
...t'will be accounted her discretion." Etc. 2548 WORCESTER (Marquis of). A CENTURY OF THE NAMES ANI> SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can...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 these down in...
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Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in ...

Richard Foster Jones - History - 1982 - 386 pages
...pp. 217, 223. «Cf. Dircks, op. cit., pp. 268, 291-92. In 1663 appeared his only published work: .4 Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former .Votes being lostl I have, at th« instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the ysar 1655,...
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Engineering in History

Richard Shelton Kirby - Technology & Engineering - 1990 - 546 pages
...his well-known account of his achievements, A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such Inventiont As at Present I Can Call to Mind to Have Tried and Perfected, published in 1663, Worcester discussed one hundred heterogeneous ideas. And he secured from Parliament...
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Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature

Jessica Wolfe - History - 2004 - 326 pages
...1994). 49. Edward Somerset, Sixth Earl and Second Marquis of Worcester, A Century of the names ana scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which . . . I have . . . endeavoured now in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently...
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Catalogue, Issue 387

Catalogs, Booksellers' - 1920 - 224 pages
...machines, parachutes, etc., with descriptive text. 35 WORCESTER ^Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis of). A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such inventions,...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 these down in...
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Catalogue, Issues 416-420

Catalogs, Booksellers' - 1921 - 1236 pages
...the book is supposed to be Paul Klias, or Joachim Vadianus of Saint-Gnll. 414 WORCESTER (Marquis of). A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...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 these down in...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Volume 3

Science - 1842 - 446 pages
...alludes, as containing the " heads" of his experiments, was published in 1663, under the title of " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions,...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 such...
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English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century, Part 2

Maggs Bros - English literature - 1926 - 932 pages
...Quarrel!, & tis most irreconcilable, when betweene those yt did love best." 2299 WORCESTER (Marquis of). A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS,...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 these down in...
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Catalogues of Sales

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co - Art - 1584 - 92 pages
...(ammcrlantar LOT 4676 SCIENCE, ETC. CENTURY OF THE Names and Scantlings OF SUCH INVENTIONS, As at prefent I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former Notes being loft) I have, at the inftance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year i6j j. to fee thefe...
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