Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.

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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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London :: Printed for J. Kirton ...,
1659.
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Latin language -- Readers.
Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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Page 138

LVII.

[illustration]
68

Metallifodinà.

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Metalli-fossores 1. ingrediuntur Puteum fodinae, 2. Bacillo, 3. sive Gradibus, 4. cum Lucernis, 5. & effodiunt Ligone, 6. terram Metallicam, quae imposita Corbibus, 7 extrahitur Fune 8. ope Machinae tractoria. & defertur (9. in Ʋstrinam, 10. ubi igne urgetur, ut profluat Metallum; 12. Scoriae, 11. seorsim abjiciuntur.

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A Mine.

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Miners 1. go into the Grove, 2. by a Stick, 3. or by Ladders, 4. with Lanthorns, 5. and dig out the Oar, with a Pick, 6. which being put into Baskets, 7. is drawn out with a Rope 8. by the means of a Turn, 9. and is carried to the Smelting-house, 10. where it is forced with fire that the Me∣tal may run out, 12. the Dross, 11. is thrown aside.

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