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... invented by Otho Guericke at Magdeburg in 1650 , and improved by the illustrious Boyle in 1657 ; and the air - pipe , invented by Mr. Sutton , a brewer of London , about 1756. See Balloon . AIX - LA - CHAPELLE , PEACE of . The first ...
... invented by Otho Guericke at Magdeburg in 1650 , and improved by the illustrious Boyle in 1657 ; and the air - pipe , invented by Mr. Sutton , a brewer of London , about 1756. See Balloon . AIX - LA - CHAPELLE , PEACE of . The first ...
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... invented this mysterious art , wherein they were followed by Ramond Lullius , Paracelsus , and others , who never found anything else but ashes in their furnaces . Another author on the subject is Zosimus , about A.D. 410. - Fab . Bib ...
... invented this mysterious art , wherein they were followed by Ramond Lullius , Paracelsus , and others , who never found anything else but ashes in their furnaces . Another author on the subject is Zosimus , about A.D. 410. - Fab . Bib ...
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... invented by Bacchus ; the former where the soil , owing to its quality , would not grow grapes . - Tooke's Pantheon . Ale was known as a beverage at least 404 B.C. Herodotus ascribes the first discovery of the art of brewing barley ...
... invented by Bacchus ; the former where the soil , owing to its quality , would not grow grapes . - Tooke's Pantheon . Ale was known as a beverage at least 404 B.C. Herodotus ascribes the first discovery of the art of brewing barley ...
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... invented by Wolfius , in 1709. The extreme velocity was found by Dr. Lind to be 93 miles per hour . See article Winds . ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST . GEORGE . Instituted in Greece , A.D. 456. The Angelici were instituted by Angelus Comnenus ...
... invented by Wolfius , in 1709. The extreme velocity was found by Dr. Lind to be 93 miles per hour . See article Winds . ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST . GEORGE . Instituted in Greece , A.D. 456. The Angelici were instituted by Angelus Comnenus ...
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... invented is not known , at least with certainty . It was brought from Egypt into Greece by Thales , about 600 B.C. The oldest treatise upon arithmetic is by Euclid ( 7th , 8th , and 9th books of his Elements ) , about 300 B.C. The ...
... invented is not known , at least with certainty . It was brought from Egypt into Greece by Thales , about 600 B.C. The oldest treatise upon arithmetic is by Euclid ( 7th , 8th , and 9th books of his Elements ) , about 300 B.C. The ...
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