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Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . A~A. ^hTrfcftfa O R I 40 f 9 ] O R I Orlchal-cum brofe bifhop of Mi tlie 4tli century ofrnnialkis fiifliop of Adnimctuni, iii Africa, in the6th, :;nd cf Illdaius billiOj of Seville; in tlie yth,all icem lo confimi Plinys a(.;count. We may tlicic-Iore fafely cuntry. It appear^ from a variety otteftimonies that brafs was made in Afia, in a manner^cry Ilmilar to that at Rome ; and a variety
Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . A~A. ^hTrfcftfa O R I 40 f 9 ] O R I Orlchal-cum brofe bifhop of Mi tlie 4tli century ofrnnialkis fiifliop of Adnimctuni, iii Africa, in the6th, :;nd cf Illdaius billiOj of Seville; in tlie yth,all icem lo confimi Plinys a(.;count. We may tlicic-Iore fafely cuntry. It appear^ from a variety otteftimonies that brafs was made in Afia, in a manner^cry Ilmilar to that at Rome ; and a variety of placesare mentioned in that extendve coimtiy wheie it wascommonly made : and it is fuppofed by forae that inInd;a, as well as in other parts of Afia, it was madein the With rciissft to orichalcum, it is generally fuppcfedthat there v/cre two foi ts cf it, one faflitii-us, theother natural. The fidlitious, whether we ccnhder i:squalities or compofition, appears to have bee
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