Название: A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2)
Автор: Johann Beckmann
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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This machine was invented by Kircher, in imitation of the ear of Dionysius; nor is it a vain and empty speculation, for the machine produces an infallible effect. Kircher caused to be made at Rome, of tin plate, a very large and straight tube, like a funnel, and placed it in an apartment next to his chamber, in such a manner that the large end projected into the garden of the college, and the less entered his chamber. When the porter of the college had occasion to call him to the gate, that he might not be obliged always to go up stairs, or to bawl out, he went to the broad end of the funnel, and communicated what he wished to Kircher. – Schotti Magia Universalis, ii. p. 156.
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Eschinardi Discursus de Sono Pneumatico, p. 10.
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Physico-theology.
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Our Kircher, in his Phonurgia, justly claims that invention, as it was several years ago exhibited by him in the Jesuits’ college at Rome, and an account of it printed. That this is true I myself was an eye-witness; though I must acknowledge that no one before the above-mentioned Englishman ever applied this speaking instrument, at least in so perfect a manner, to that use for which it was afterwards employed. – Magisterium Naturæ et Artis. Brixiæ, 1684–92, fol. ii. p. 436.
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Journal des Sçavans, tome iii.
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Ibid. p. 131.
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J. A. Sturm, Collegium Experimentale, ii. p. 146.
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Philosophical Transactions.
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Mémoires de l’Acad. des Sciences à Berlin, 1763, p. 97.
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Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, &c. of Heat, p. 225.
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La Historia General de las Indias. Sevilla, 1535, fol. lib. xvii. c. 13. [An earlier notice of the pine-apple had been given by Andræa Navagero in his letter to Rannusio, dated from Seville, May 12, 1526. He says, “I have also seen a most beautiful fruit, the name of which I do not recollect: I have eaten of it, for it was imported fresh. It has the taste of the quince, together with that of the peach, with some resemblance also of the melon: it is fragrant, and is truly of most delicious flavour.” – Lettere di xiii Huomini Illustri.]
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Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique. Par André Thevet. Anvers, 1558.
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Voyage faict en la terre du Brésil, autrement dite Amerique. Par J. de Lery. Genève, 1580, 8vo, p. 188.
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Rerum Med. novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurus. Rome, 1651. fol.
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The accounts given by Acosta and Linschotten may be seen in Bauhini Histor. Plantarum, iii. p. 95. Kircher in his China Illustrata says, “That fruit which the Americans and people of the East Indies, among whom it is common, call the ananas, and which grows also in great abundance in the provinces of Quantung, Chiamsi, and Fokien, is supposed to have been brought from Peru to China.”
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See Leibnitz, Nouveaux Essais sur l’Entendement Humain (Œuv. Phil.), p. 256, Amst. 1765, 4to.
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Lersner, Chronik, ii. p. 824.
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Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary, i. p. 132. Lueder, Wartung der Küchengewächse. Lubeck, 1780, 8vo, p. 248.
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Miller, ii. p. 824. Lueder, p. 39. That putrid bark forms an excellent manure, had been before remarked by Lauremberg, in Horticultura, p. 52.
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Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera. Parisiis 1708, 4to, p. 46.
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[The plants producing the pine-apple have been separated by Prof. Lindley under the name
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Halleri Bibl. Botan. i. p. 640.
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De Arte Amandi, lib. iii. v. 629.
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Ausonii Epist. xxiii. v. 21. The poet afterwards teaches other methods of secret writing, and Gellius, lib. xvii. cap. 9, mentions the like.
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Colum. De Re Rust. x. 354. and xi. 3, 60.
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Plin. lib. xxvi. cap. 8. p. 400.
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The sixth observation of the second century is as follows:
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Tachenii Hippocraticæ Medicinæ Clavis, p. 236. 1669.
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Collectanea Chymica Leydensia, edidit Morley. Lugd. Bat. 1684, 4to, p. 97.
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For an account of various kinds of secret writing see Halle, Magie oder Zauberkräfte der Natur. Berlin, 1783, 8vo, v. i. p. 138.
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Hist. et Mém. de l’Acad. des Sciences à Paris, 1737, pp. 101 and 228.
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Historia Cadmiæ fossilis, sive Cobalti. Berl. 1744.
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This account, together with Teichmeyer’s receipt for preparing it, may be found in Commercium Litterarium Norimbergense, 1737, p. 91.
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“Copiosius minera bismuthi tam ab aqua forti quam ab aqua regia dissolvitur, restante pulvere albo corroso; solutio in aqua forti roseum colorem sistit, quæ si sali in aqua soluto, secundum præscriptum D. J. W. in clave, affundatur, abstrahatur, ex residuo extrahitur sal roseum, quod pulverisari et cum spiritu vini extrahi potest: adeoque hæc autrix jam anno 1705 publice totum processum et fundamentum sic dicti atramenti sympathetici, quod a calore viridescit, evulgavit.” – Pot, Observ. Chym. collectio prima. Berolini, 1739, p. 163.
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So thinks Gesner in Selecta Physico-œconomica, or Sammlung von allerhand zur Naturgeschichte СКАЧАТЬ