IV. Of certain Dactili Idaei, or the true Lapides Ju∣daici, for kind found with us.
The Stones call'd Dactili Idaei and Lapides Judaici, are brought over to us from beyond Seas in divers
Letters and divers other mixt discourses in natural philosophy many of which were formerly published in the Philosophical transactions of Mr. Oldenburg, and part in the Philosophical collections of Mr. Hooke and else where : all which are now revised, augmented, and to them are added very many other matters of the same nature, not before published : also an intire treatis of the nature and use of colours in oyl. painting / written by M. Lister, F. of the R.S.
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- Letters and divers other mixt discourses in natural philosophy many of which were formerly published in the Philosophical transactions of Mr. Oldenburg, and part in the Philosophical collections of Mr. Hooke and else where : all which are now revised, augmented, and to them are added very many other matters of the same nature, not before published : also an intire treatis of the nature and use of colours in oyl. painting / written by M. Lister, F. of the R.S.
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- Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.
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"Letters and divers other mixt discourses in natural philosophy many of which were formerly published in the Philosophical transactions of Mr. Oldenburg, and part in the Philosophical collections of Mr. Hooke and else where : all which are now revised, augmented, and to them are added very many other matters of the same nature, not before published : also an intire treatis of the nature and use of colours in oyl. painting / written by M. Lister, F. of the R.S." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48704.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.
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shapes; and some of them are described in Authors. We have plenty of them for kind in these parts, as in the Stone-qurries at Newton near Hemsley, and at Helling∣ley by Malton. There is some variety in the figure of them here also; but the most common one in these rocks is after the fashion of a Date-stone, round and long, about an inch, and sometime longer. They are a little swelled in the middle, and narrower towards each end: They are channelled the length-way, and upon the ridges knotted or purled all over with small knots, set in a quincunx-order. The inward substance is a white opaque Sparr, and breaks smooth like a flint; not at all hollow in the middle, as are the Belemnites: