A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals: In Four Parts. Part I. and II. Containing the Art of Metals, Written Originally in Spanish |
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Pagina 215 - Articles being all that ever was made. The second teacheth the art of dialling and levelling grooves a thing greatly desired by all miners being a subject never written on before by any, with an explanation of the miners' terms of art used in this book.
Pagina 48 - Mettals in the same condition, as we now find them at this day; herein doing nature a great affront by denying her (without reason) a productive vertue in this matter, which is allowed unto her in all other sublunary things; moreover, that experience in divers places hath manifested the contrary...
Pagina 58 - Drift, sb. a passage, in form rhomboidal, cut out or driven under the earth betwixt shaft and shaft, or turn and turn, or a passage or way wrought under the earth to the end of a meer of ground, or part of a meer.
Pagina 60 - Pipe, sb. where the ore runs forwards endways in a hole, and doth not sink downwards or in a vein. Possession, sb. the right to a meer of ground, which miners enjoy, by having stows upon that ground ; and it is taken generally for the stows themselves ; for it is the stows that give possession. Quarter-cord, sb. seven yards and a quarter, which...
Pagina 12 - ... is of a dark gray colour, like unto tobacco ground small Although from other islands near Arica they get a white earth, inclining to sallow, of the same virtue. It instantly colours water whereinto it is put, as if it was the best ley, and smells very strong. The qualities and virtues of this, and of many other simples of the new world, are a large field for ingenious persons to discourse philosophically upon, when they shall bend their minds to the searching out of truth, rather than riches.
Pagina 207 - Also a Perfect way to try what colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark, or...
Pagina 17 - ... one-half to the lord of the field or farmer, and the other half to the barmaster or steward, according to the custom ; and, it was averred, that the plaintiff was the barmaster, whereby an action had accrued.
Pagina 8 - ... 28. We say, that able fit men, if they be not miners, if they have parts and be maintainers of mines, and known by the barmaster or his deputy to understand well the custom of the mine, they ought to serve for jurors, especially in difficult and weighty matters and causes.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals: In Four Parts. Part I. and II. Containing the Art of Metals, Written Originally in Spanish A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals, Edward Montagu Earl of Sandwich |
| Auteur | Alvaro Alonso Barba |
| vertaald door | Edward Montagu Earl of Sandwich |
| Uitgever | C. Jephson, 1738 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 5 dec 2006 |
| Lengte | 281 pagina's |
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