Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 727
tures and attitudes are projected on a screen,a true and lively impression of his eloquence might be conveyed centuriesafter his decease. One is almost led to speculate as to the consequencesif these nineteenth century inventions had been antedated by a fewthousand years : what stores of knowledge… … Fig. 320. — The Domestic Aquariitm. AQUARIA. UNDER the date of May 28th, 1665, the curious gossiping diary ofSamuel Pepys contains this entry : Thence to see my Lady Pen,where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity ; of fishes kept in a glass of^vater, that will live so for ever—and finely marked…
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