The Project Gutenberg eBook of Curiosities of Science, Past and Present
Title: Curiosities of Science, Past and Present
Author: John Timbs
Release date: March 17, 2015 [eBook #48516]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
Language: English
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NEW WORK ON PAINTING.
Just ready, in small 8vo, with Frontispiece and Vignette,
PAINTING POPULARLY EXPLAINED;
WITH
The Practice of the Art,
AND
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF ITS PROGRESS.
BY
THOMAS J. GULLICK, Painter,
AND
JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
The plan of this work is thus sketched in the Introduction:
“There have been in the history of Art, four grand styles of imitating Nature—Tempera, Encaustic, Fresco, and Oil. These, together with the minor modes of Painting, we propose arranging in something like chronological sequence; but our design being to offer an explanation of the Art derived from practical acquaintance, rather than attempt to give its history, we shall confine ourselves for the most part to so much only of the History of Painting as is necessary to elucidate the origin of the different practices which have obtained at different periods.”
By this means, the Authors hope to produce a work which may be valuable to the Amateur, and interesting to the Connoisseur, the Artist, and the General Reader.
LONDON:
KENT & CO. (late Bogue), FLEET STREET.
MOUTH OF THE GREAT ROSSE TELESCOPE, AT PARSONSTOWN.
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
Things not generally Known
Familiarly Explained.
CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE,
Past and Present.
A BOOK FOR OLD AND YOUNG.
By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN; AND EDITOR OF THE
YEAR-BOOK OF FACTS.
Model of the Safety-Lamp, made by Sir Humphry Davy’s own hands;
in the possession of the Royal Society.
LONDON:
KENT AND CO. (late BOGUE), FLEET STREET.
MDCCCLVIII.
The Author reserves the right of authorising a Translation of this Work.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY LEVEY, ROBSON, AND FRANKLYN,
Great New Street and Fetter Lane.