 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 pàgines
...birthplace of Homer. On the other side of the Channel they have unanimously ascribed the honour of it to the Marquis of Worcester, of the illustrious house...Caus, who was born at Dieppe, or in its neighbourhood. Let us now cast an impartial glance upon the several claims of these two competitors. Worcester, deeply... | |
 | 1839 - 474 pàgines
...birthplace of Homer. On the other side of the Channel they have unanimously ascribed the honour of it to the Marquis of Worcester, of the illustrious house...Caus, who was born at Dieppe, or in its neighbourhood. Let us now cast an impartial glance upon the several claims of these two competitors. Worcester, deeply... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 pàgines
...Memoir of Watt, have ascribed the honor to the Marquis of Worcester ; but on this side the channel, "we maintain that it belongs to a humble engineer, almost forgotten by our biographers, viz. Solomon de Caus." And in his 'History of the Steam Engine,' he asserts that " the idea of raising... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 608 pàgines
...Memoir of Watt, have ascribed the honor to the Marquis of Worcester ; but on this side the channel, "we maintain that it belongs to a humble engineer, almost forgotten by our biographers, viz. Solomon de Caus." And in his 'History of the Steam Engine,' he asserts that " the idea of raising... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pàgines
...the other side of the channel they have unanimously ascribed the honour to the Marquis of Worccster, of the illustrious house of Somerset. On this side,...who was born at Dieppe, or in its neighbourhood." Of the precise merits of De Caus we shall speak a little further on. M. Arago then proceeds to show,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1851 - 646 pàgines
...Memoir of Watt, have ascribed the honor to the Marquis of Worcester ; but on this side the channel, " we maintain that it belongs to a humble engineer, almost forgotten by our biographers, viz. Solomon de Gaus." And in his 'History of the Steam Engine," lie asserts that " the idea of raising... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1876 - 1228 pàgines
...Watt, have ascribed the honot lu the Marquis of Worcester ; but on this side the channel, " we mainlain that it belongs to a humble engineer, almost forgotten by our biographers, viz. Solomon de Gaus." And in his 'History of the Steam Engine,' he asserts that " the idea of raising... | |
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M. Arago has claimed for France the invention of the steam engine. The English, he observes in his Memoir of Watt, have ascribed the honor to the Marquis of Worcester ; but on this side the channel, "we maintain that it belongs to a humble engineer, almost... 