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 ...
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Nicols, Thomas.
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] :: Printed by Thomas Buck ...,
1652.
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Precious stones -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XL. Of the Lithantthrax, or Coals.
[Description of the stone.] THe Lithanthrax is a stonie coal of the kinds of Gagate. It is a bituminous substance, which by the power of heat being concocted, is brought into the hardnesse of a stone.
Their names.
In Greek they are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. There are light ones which are called by* 1.1 Theophrastus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Carbones leves. There are also Carbones graves, cal∣led in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Lapidei Carbones: in Germane, ein Stein-kol: in English Coals.
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Places.
This is found in the countrey of Liege, and in those places where the Gagate is found.
Its use.
The common use of coals is so well known to all, as that I shall not need to spend further time in the discourse of it. See Boet. c. de Lithanthr. & And. Libav.