Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron and copper was discovered ; and the use of copper was known before that of iron,... The Scientific Monthly - Página 123editado por - 1917Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Louis Simonin - 1869 - 684 páginas
...cognita primum : Posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta." — Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, lib. v. "Arms of old were hands, nails, and teeth, and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Edward Clodd, Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 382 páginas
...nearly 2,000 years ago by Lucretius in his immortal poem, De Rerum Naturd,1 is not restricted 1 "Anns of old were hands, nails, and teeth and stones, and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they to one quarter of the globe, but holds good for... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1895 - 202 páginas
...by Lucretius in his great poem " De Rerum Natura," in the passage thus rendered by Mr. Munro : "Arms of old were hands, nails, and teeth, and stones, and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1900 - 196 páginas
...Memmius, it is easy for you to find out by yourself in what way the nature of iron was discovered. Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1903 - 202 páginas
...Memmius, it is easy for you to find out by yourself in what way the nature of iron was discovered. Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Gordon Jennings Laing - 1903 - 534 páginas
...Memmius, it is easy for you to find out by yourself in what way the nature of iron was discovered. Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Gordon Jennings Laing - 1903 - 528 páginas
...Memmius, it is easy for you to find out by yourself in what way the nature of iron was discovered. Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken of? from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of... | |
| Walter Johnson - 1908 - 456 páginas
...the Christian era, anticipated the modern classification of stages of culture when he wrote : ' Arms of old were hands, nails, and teeth, and stones, and boughs broken off from the forests. . . . Afterwards the force of iron and copper was discovered, and the use of copper... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1908 - 530 páginas
...Memmius, it is easy for you to find out by yourself in what way the nature of iron was discovered. Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
| Alfred Cort Haddon, Alison Hingston Quiggin - 1910 - 252 páginas
...degenerated, but that his progress has continually been slowly upward from a condition of pure savagery: Arms of old were hands, nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron... | |
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