Curious questions in history, literature, art, and social life : designed as a manual of general information (1890)
Killikelly, Sarah H · Philadelphia : Keystone Pub. Co. · leaf 306
stratagem.Bufifon thinks that by Chinese iron Abulfeda means pol-ished steel. The story of this wonderful mirror hasbeen very generally treated as a fable; but some cele-brated opticians have been so staggered by the positiveterms in which the facts stand recorded, that they hesi-tate discrediting… … TOWER OF THE PHAROS(Alexandria.) Curious Questions. Vol. II, page 262. CURIOUS QUESTIONS. 263 Pharos of Alexandria, accounted one of the SevenWonders of the Ancient World, was the first light-bear-ing tower of which we have record. It was built ofwhite marble, several stories high, each story…
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