 Doctor, do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like...  Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering ... - Page 170edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 532 pages
...tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into...the silver spoon downward, without the least force upwards; and this he can make a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared. 13th. After dinner,... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 506 pages
...a musquett, and strike a hole through the silver spoon downward, without the least force upwards ; and this he can make a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared. 13th. After dinner, come my perriwigg-maker, and brings me a second periwigg, made of my own hair,... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 462 pages
...tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into...the silver spoon downward without the least force upwards; and this he can make a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared." Evelyn also visited... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1866 - 528 pages
...tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into...a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like a musquetu> and strike a hole through the silver spoon downward, without the least force upwards ; and... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 898 pages
...reduced. "Dr. Allen tells me that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulmiiians, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into a silver...musquett, and strike a hole through the silver spoon. " — PEPYS, 1663. A fulminating powder which explodes when heated to 360° may be made of niterv 3... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1876 - 538 pages
...tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into...will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole 1 John Rushworth, Clerk assistant to the House of Commons, and author of the Historical Collections.... | |
 | 1882 - 636 pages
...more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans ; ta grain^I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon and fired,...and strike a hole through the silver spoon downward, * Probably some species of buoyant torpedoes. t Aurum fulminant may have been the) same mentioned previously,... | |
 | S. J. von Romocki - 1895 - 766 pages
...teils me that which is more stränge, that some thing made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into...cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared." Das Kaffeehaus -Gespräch Pepys' mit Dr. Allen führte offenbar vom Sprengstoff Drebbels auf ähnliche... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1905 - 846 pages
...tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chemistry Aitrum . musket, 1 See October 24. " John Rushworth (? 1612-1600), Assistant Clerk to the House of Commons,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1905 - 860 pages
...which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chemistry Aurum fitlininaiis, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like a musket, 1 See October 24. 2 John Rushworth ('1612-1690), Assistant Clerk to the House of Commons, and... | |
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