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Specimens of ancient oracular and fighting eolipiles : with remarks on dragons and other fire breathing monsters of mythology and the Middle Ages, being a supplement to his treatise on hydraulics and mechanics (1845)

Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Ewbank · leaf 11

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Ancient Fighting Eolipile, 11 referred, with the exception of a couple of reduced fac -similes which are now before the reader, (a ) … No. 288. Ancient Fighting Eolipile. As not a word of explanation accompanies this singular figure, (nor any other in the book,) and little or nothing is to be found in Vegetius or other Roman authors to aid us, all that we can offer must be received as conjecture. If the magnitude of the machine be…

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