The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 102
amind thirsting after progress and discovery. Moreover, Palissy, whileemployed on his calling as a land-surveyor, had never ceased to give closeobservation to the structure and composition of geological strata. With thepurpose of dispelling the doubts in his mind, and also with the object… … Fig. 37.—A figured Border of an Enamelled Dish, by Bernard Palissy. rejected by the learned, was nevertheless destined to form the foundationof principles which are now considered as the basis of modern geologicalscience. But if the certain knowledge which Palissy thought he had acquired asto the…
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