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" Scaliot for his minute contrivances, is said to have made 1,600 dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a peppercorn of the common size.... "
The Penny Mechanic and Chemist: A Magazine of the Arts and Sciences - Page 261
1841
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The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man ..., Volume 2

Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 450 pages
...ready coined. 21. Oswa'.dus Norhingerus, the most excellent artisan of this or any former ages, made 1600 dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part; yet sosmall, thin, and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned tiut of apcpper...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 1

1821 - 438 pages
..._ . t Otwaldui N'>rKin|crut, the, jnĀ°>t excellent artisan of thii or any foruicr ages, made JiiX) dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender, that all of them were includtdat unee In a cup turned out of a pepper-corn of the...
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The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and ...

World - 1868 - 528 pages
...Norhingerus, who was more famous even than Scaliot for his minute contrivances, is said to have made 1,600 dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a pepper-corn of the...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 26-28

1872 - 444 pages
...was more famous even than Scaliot for his minute contrivance, is said to have made sixteen hundred dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a pepper-corn of the...
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The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and ...

World - 1874 - 452 pages
...Norhingerus, who was more famous even than Scaliot for his minute contrivances, is said to have made i,6co dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a pepper-corn of the...
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Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools ..., Volume 2

Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 1000 pages
...was more famous even than .Sealiot for his minute contrivances, is snid to have made sixteen hundred dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a peppercorn of the...
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Doidge's Western Counties' Illustrated Annual for ...: A Miscellany of ...

1887 - 430 pages
...Norhingems, who was more famous even than Scaliot for his minute contrivances, is said to have made 1,600 dishes of turned ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin, and slender, that all of them were included at once in a cup turned out of a peppercorn of the...
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