Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 315
aks of similar glass balls,which magnified minute objects to the view. Nay, he had nearlystumbled on a more remarkable discovery, the composition oflight, for he mentions the possibility of producing an artificial 302 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. rainbow bv the use of an angular glass rod. At a far earlier… … investigate With the laws of reflection the ancients, as we know fromthe performances ascribed to Archimedes, were well acquainted.It is singular that being in possession of such remarkable facts connected withrefraction, theyshould neverhave proceededtothe laws bywhich it is gov-erned. The first…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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