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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- 1659.
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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 June 15, 2024.
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Page 177
Trajecturus flumen ne madefiat, excogitati sunt Pontes 1. pro Vehiculis, & Ponticuli 2. pro Peditibus.
Si flumen hahet Vadum, 3. vadatur. 4. Struuntur etiam Rates, 5 ex compactis tignis; vel Pontones, 6. ex trabibus consolida∣tis ne aquam excipiant.
Porrò fabricantur Lintres (Lembi) 7. qui aguntur Remo, 8. vel Conto, 9. aut trahuntur Remulco. 10.
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Passing over Waters.
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Lest he that is to passe over a River should be all wet, Bridges 1. were invented for Carriages, and Foot-bridges 2. for Foot-men.
If a River have a Foord, 3. it is waded over. 4. Flotes, 5. also are made of Tim∣ber pinned together; or Ferrie-boats, 6. of planks laid close together, for fear they should receive water.
Besides Scullers 7. are made, which are rowed with an Oar, 8. or a Pole, 9. or haled with a haleing-rope. 10.