 | Bernard Quaritch - 1883 - 596 pages
...subject which is banished from the domain of all honest literature. 13659 [WORCESTER (Marquis of) ] A Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, 12mo. red morocco extra, leather joints, (jilt edges, £4. 4» 1663 FIKSÏ EDITION of a famons book,... | |
 | John Fitchett Marsh - Castles - 1883 - 336 pages
...manufcript. Its title is, " A Century of the names and fcantlings of fuch 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,1 endeavoured now in the year 1655, to ^et thefe... | |
 | John Fitchett Marsh - Castles - 1883 - 336 pages
...manufcript. Its title is, " A Century of the names and fcantlings of fuch 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,1 endeavoured now in the year 1655, to fet thefe... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1885 - 344 pages
...be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester,' published a quaint volume entitled ' A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured to set down in such a way as inay sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.' Amongst... | |
 | Cornelius McLeod Percy - 1886 - 674 pages
...vanity of the man was as great as the talent of the inventor. His famous book was entitled by himself " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind having tried and perfected (my former notes being lost)." The article referring to his great application... | |
 | James Burnley - Cooks - 1886 - 420 pages
...highly important, inventions. He published his "Century" in 1663. This professed to give "the name and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected ; " and included, as its chief feature, what has been generally accepted as being the germ of the steam-engine.... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...reprinted the " Century of Inventions," London, 1665. The titlepage of the latter is as follows : " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavered now in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to... | |
 | 1888 - 272 pages
...reprinted the " Century of Inventions," London, 1665. The titlepage of the latter is as follows : " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavered now in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to... | |
 | Social sciences - 1912 - 1040 pages
...Propositionen /etc. 1686. Ein paar englische 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. 1663 (diese Schrift kenne ich nur aus den Angaben, die L. B eck, G. d. E. 2, 922 f. darüber macht)... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory laws and legislation - 1891 - 556 pages
...water and occasioning motion to all sorts of mill work by the impellant force of fire;" and to whom i " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...Friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set them down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." Arts. 68,... | |
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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... 
