...be of great importance. The following is a transcript of the title-page : A Century of the Jtiamcs and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and * Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester. London, 1865. perfected,...

...subject which is banished from the domain of all honest literature. 13659 [WORCESTER (Marquis of) ] A Century of the names and scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, 12mo. red morocco extra, leather joints, (jilt edges, £4. 4» 1663 FIKSÏ EDITION of a famons book,...

...adeptorum libri iv. Lipsiae, 1768. 8vo, pp. [48] 548 [12]. WORCESTER (HENRY SOMERSET, MARQUIS or). A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected. London, 1663. 12ino, pp. [20] 72 [2, blank, 9, 1 blank]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such...

...manufcript. Its title is, " A Century of the names and fcantlings of fuch inventions as at prefent I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes being loft) I have, at the inftance of a powerful friend,1 endeavoured now in the year 1655, to fet thefe...

...manufcript. Its title is, " A Century of the names and fcantlings of fuch inventions as at prefent I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes being loft) I have, at the inftance of a powerful friend,1 endeavoured now in the year 1655, to ^et thefe...

...be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester,' published a quaint volume entitled ' A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured to set down in such a way as inay sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.' Amongst...

...vanity of the man was as great as the talent of the inventor. His famous book was entitled by himself " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind having tried and perfected (my former notes being lost)." The article referring to his great application...

...highly important, inventions. He published his "Century" in 1663. This professed to give "the name and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected ; " and included, as its chief feature, what has been generally accepted as being the germ of the steam-engine....

...reprinted the " Century of Inventions," London, 1665. The titlepage of the latter is as follows : " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavered now in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to...

...reprinted the " Century of Inventions," London, 1665. The titlepage of the latter is as follows : " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavered now in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to...