 He had, above in his lodgings and gallery, variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical, and magical curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic, and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle,...  Sir Christopher Wren - Page 31by Lena Milman - 1908 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 512 pages
...through it at a good distance. He had, above in his lodgings and gallery, variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic, and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle, most of them of his own, and that prodigious... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 pages
...through it at a good distance. He had above in his lodgings and gallery variety of shadows, dyals, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a ballance on a demi-circle, most of them of his owne and that prodigious... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1871 - 342 pages
...through it at a good distance. He had, above in his lodgings and gallery, a variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a waywiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a balance on a semicircle; most of them of his own, and that prodigious young... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 pages
...through it at a good distance. He had, above in his lodgings and gallery, variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a waywiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic, and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle ; most of them of his own, and that prodigious... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1879 - 652 pages
...through it at a good distance. He had above in his lodgings and gallery variety of shadows, dyals, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a ballance on a demi-circle, most of them of his owne and that prodigious... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1892 - 460 pages
...of Westminster Abbey. distance. He had above in his lodgings and gallery variety of shadows, dyals, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a ballance on a demi-circle, most of them of his owne and that prodigious... | |
 | Charles William Boase - 1890 - 258 pages
...without destroying the bees. . . . He had above in his lodgings and gallery a variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a waywiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a balance on a semi-circle; most of them his own, and that prodigious young... | |
 | 1892 - 930 pages
...Mr. Christopher Wren," he had filled a gallery above his lodgings with a variety of shadows, dials, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...; a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle, marble curiously colored by Wren, and other scientific... | |
 | Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1892 - 466 pages
...of Westminster Abbey. distance. He had above in his lodgings and gallery variety of shadows, dyals, perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical,...curiosities, a way-wiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic and other sections, a ballance on a demi-circle, most of them of his owne and that prodigious... | |
 | Joseph Wells - 1898 - 262 pages
...curious " scholar delighted. " He has in his lodgings and gallery variety of shadows, dials, perspective and many other artificial, mathematical, and magical...thermometer, a monstrous magnet — most of them of his own, and of that prodigious young scholar, Mr. Chr. Wren." * He also gave Evelyn a transparent apiary... | |
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