0000–Antiquity

Theophrastus – John Hill, Θεοφραστου του Ερεσιου Περι των λιθων βιβλιον. Theophrastus’s History of Stones. With an English Version, and Critical and Philosophical Notes, Including the Modern History of the Gems, &c. described by that Author, and of many other of the Native Fossils. To which are added Two Letters: One to Dr. James Parsons, F. R. S. On the Colours of the Sapphire and Turquoise. And the other to Martin Folkes, Esq; Doctor of Laws, and President of the Royal Society; Upon the Effects of different Menstruums on Copper. Both tending to illustrate the Doctrine of the Gems being coloured by Metalline Particles, London [C. Davis] 1746.