. Harper's weekly. rist. inter used to, and winter 1brought So-igenes from Athens to Rome, to assisthim in rectifying this confusion. They gave four- vented leap year, to avoid the difficulty in the fu-ture. On the opposite shore of that sea is MarcoPolo (25), the Venetian traveler, whose statementthat he saw black stones (that is, coal) used for fuelin China was so disbelieved in Europe in (V.!, and C!. t nst is ( J*) Copernicus, who i revolves around the sun, for which 1jail at Rome, and forced to recant on jKepler (29) too, still farther to the . (31), tothe north, occupies the brightest sp
. Harper's weekly. rist. inter used to, and winter 1brought So-igenes from Athens to Rome, to assisthim in rectifying this confusion. They gave four- vented leap year, to avoid the difficulty in the fu-ture. On the opposite shore of that sea is MarcoPolo (25), the Venetian traveler, whose statementthat he saw black stones (that is, coal) used for fuelin China was so disbelieved in Europe in (V.!, and C!. t nst is ( J*) Copernicus, who i revolves around the sun, for which 1jail at Rome, and forced to recant on jKepler (29) too, still farther to the . (31), tothe north, occupies the brightest spot ontho moon. He is properly located above Coper-nicus, for he originated tho doctrine that the latterdeveloped. The Apennine range, where it turns tothe northwest, merges into the Alps, on the westernside of which are Eudoxus (32) and Aristotle (33). ence than this latter, who, after spending his patri-mony in scientific pursuits, kept a druggists shopin Athens. Subsequently, however, Alexander theGreat gave hiin. Greek as-(38) the volcano of Archimedes, the great geometer and mechanician of the present age of big ships Ids doings are of thehighest interest. Athenams, in his ,relates how Hiero, king of the Syraensans, wasvery earnest in ship-building, having built manyvessels to carry corn, the construction of one ofwhich is described. For tho wood he caused to becut down such a number of trees as would have beensixy ordinary triremes. She was hullin six months, and ph,.i,-t\ with lead held r architect had failed h vessel was propelled byI 20 banks of oars. The 420 IWd, and the lieLdil 1 fish-deck were 8 tur-,??.(-, and an engine that threw bolts 18 feet long adistance of 200 yards. The three masts were hol-low, and served to conveymen and engines at theyards. The prowono ram. When the ship wthat no harbor in Sicily could > the king of Egypt. this i ago there was an Ericsson alive who als ia Plato (39). Every c We might extend our journey back ag
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