The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 90
i; to various circumstances, the ti-ade of <^lazier pro\in;^ un-profitable, he began the study of geometry, and soon obtained creflit in thepart of the country wherein he dwidt as * a clever draughtsman of plans.Such comparatively mechanical labour as this could not long suffice for theactive… … tig- 37-—Figured Border of an Enamelled Dish, by Bernard Palissy. actual want. AVe must refer to what he himself says more than a quarter ofa century later, when success had completely crowned his efforts, for hisrecollections of his early and hazardous experiments in a new channel. The source of…
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