The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 324
r 1306.* The Germans were for a long time of the opinionthat the art of engraving on copper was the invention ofMartin Schongauer, sometime about the year 1460; butthis claim was set aside by finding a proof of the Peaceof Florence, executed by Maso Finiguerra, dated 1452. * Gazette des Beaux-arts.… … SPECIMEN OP ENGEAVING IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY.Seduced facsimile. That the ancients knew of engraving, so far as theart relates to the cutting of figures, cannot be doubted;for there are several places in the Scriptures in whichengraving on metallic plates is mentioned. What theancients did not know…
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