The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff

The Sunshade, the Glove, the MuffTHE author of a Dictionary of Inventions, after having proved the use...
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Author: Uzanne, Octave,1851-1931
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Language: English
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The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff

The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff

€6,37

The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff

€6,37
Author: Uzanne, Octave,1851-1931
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff

THE author of a Dictionary of Inventions, after having proved the use of the Parasol in France about 1680, openly gives up any attempt to determine its precise original conception, which indeed seems to be completely concealed in the night of time. It would evidently be childish to attempt to assign a date to the invention of Parasols; it would be better to go back to Genesis at once. A biblical expression, the shelter which defends from the sun, would almost suffice to demonstrate the Oriental origin of the Parasol, if it did not appear everywhere in the most remote antiquityas well in the Nineveh sculptures, discovered and described by M. Layard; as on the bas-reliefs of the palaces or frescoes of the tombs of Thebes and Memphis. In China they used the Parasol more than two thousand years before Christ. There is mention of it in the Thong-sou-wen, under the denomination of San-Ka, in the time of the first dynasties, and a Chinese legend attributes the invention of it to the wife of Lou-pan, a celebrated carpenter of antiquity. Sir, said this incomparable spouse to her husband, you make with extreme cleverness houses for men, but it is impossible to make them move, whilst the object which I am framing for their private use can be carried to any distance, beyond even a thousand leagues. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44570
Author: Uzanne, Octave
Release Date: Jan 3, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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