Its kinds.
These stones are smooth stones, they are some∣times found round and sometimes long: sometimes in the forms of a wedge, dish, mallet, or plow-share, or of an ax, and in divers other forms. Of these,
A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
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- A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
- Author
- Nicols, Thomas.
- Publication
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] :: Printed by Thomas Buck ...,
- 1652.
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- Precious stones -- Early works to 1800.
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"A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52334.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.
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Some are white and pellucid. Some brown. Some black. Some reddish.
It is reported of this stone that it doth secure those that wear it, and their houses from lightning; and procures rest & sleep; and that it maketh men preva∣lent over their enemies, and conquerours in warres. See Boetius C. de Ceraunia.