Capitolo 66
army could bring him/it in a house where one whom has done is
way with his/her father. To the time of matins it distributes sweet music
what the there is not likes of under sky."
Bartholomew, the scientist of mediaeval says accounts of the magic one
action of the sapphire. "The sapphire is a precious stone", him
it says, "and it is blue in colour, sky likes in equitable time
and clear, and it is best among stones precious, and more proper and able
to fingers of king. And if you put an addercop in a box, and
holds a very blue alive of India to the mouth of the box some while,
from thereof of virtue the addercop is old and dieth, as is
suddenly. And this same I have seen it tried oft in many and you launch
places." Possibly the fact that the addercop is so infrequent a
our invader of modern life it gives account of the fact that we have gone away
inactive to the I read surprising so an affirmation; or possibly our
incredulity dominates our reverential fear.
The art of the lapidary one or science of glyptics, are a more interesting
studies, and it would be an error not to consider him/it for some moments
on his/her technical side. It is very ancient as an art. In Ecclesiasticus
the wise Child of Sirach alludes to artisans "that you/they have cut and serious
seals, and it is industrious to make the great variety, and it is given
to falsify image, and it looks at to end a job."
Theophilus on glyptics is too delightfully naive for us to withstand to
quoting his/her comments. "Crystal", he announces "that it is water it hardened
in ice, and the ice of great age hardened in stone, you/he/she is repaired
and smoothed in this way." He directs then the use of sandstone
and it is probable that emery, mainly used by rubbing as one inflicts, to smooth the
stones, probably the cabochon_ of _en as it was the method in his/her duration; this
style of end on a gem had called "you fatten up cutting." But when one
you wish crystal of sculp, Theophilus informs one: "Picks up a goat of two
or three years... makes an opening among his/her breast and succeeds in eating, in