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Scientific Intelligence.
These conjectures of Dupuits result from a comparative view of the religious ¦ worship of the Pelasgi and that of the people in Upper Egypt and Ethiopia ; as well as from the traditions and geographical names common to the Pelasgic nations , the Egyptians , and the Ethiopians .
FRENCH MARINE . IN a memoir on the state of the French marine , at the beginning of the fourteenth century , M . Legrand described the naval battle of 1304 . between the French and the Flemings , a very particular account of which he found in a history , in verse , entitled , La Brancbe att . x Roymtx Lignages , written in 1306 by William Gmart . This small work , consisting of fifteen or sixteen verses , one ofthe oldest now extant on the history ofthe French navy , gives
a very accurate description of the n wal tactics and manoeuvres of that period . M . Legrand has employed it to make known the different kinds of vessels of which squadrons were then composed , and the manner of fitting them out either for . attack or defence . From this memoir it results that , unti . l Francis J . the Kings of France had no regular navy ; and that , in their naval w . ars , they were accustomed to purchase or hire privateers , ready equipped and manned ; or merchant ships , which they manned themselves and furnished with warlike machines . This memoir is an extract of a History of the Arts ' and Sciences in France , on which M . Legrand has been employed for several years . ...
INVENTION OF PRINTING , GUNPOWDER , COMPASS , & c . ' ¦ ' M . LANGLES has already contested with the Europeans the invention of the compass , of paper , and of printing , in order to assign them to the Orientals . In a new memoir on gunpowder he deprives the German monk , Eerthold Schwartz , ofthe fatal honour of that terrible invention , andasscrts that it was conveyed to us from the Arabs . He assures us , that they made iise of it , in 1690 at the siege of Mecca ; and he addsthat the Arabs derived
, , it from the Indians , among whom it was known in the remotest antiquity , since their sacred books ( the Vedam ) forbid the use of it in war . M . Langits is of opinion , that a knowledge of these different inventions might have come to us from the East on the return of the crusaders . There is an interval , however , of two centuries between the last crusade and the first typographical attempts of Guttemberg in the city of Strasbourg about the year 1440 . Gunpowder was earlier known in Europe than printing ; but it does not appear
that it was employed there in war before the battle of Creci , where the English had six pieces of cannon . If the conjectures of M . Langles are well founded , the Europeans , at present , only carry back to the East knowledge which we formerly borrowed from that quarter . Thus every thing changes on the face ofthe globe ; the arts are lost in one' nation to be revived in another ; nations themselves are effaced anel disappear ; and vast accumulations of water covered formerly those countries which we inhabit at present . All this proves , that the small globe upon which we reside is very old ; and that to live a century or two is nothing . We have scarcel y time' to commence our studies ,
NAVIGATION . . A NEW machine , invented by Count T . H . Bathiani , to ascend the river 3 gainst the stream without any manual assistance , was lately tried on tlie jDanube . The machine weighed more than 700 centners , and a load 0 / 45 ° centners was fastened to it , together with a sloop . The experiment wa . » completely successful .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scientific Intelligence.
These conjectures of Dupuits result from a comparative view of the religious ¦ worship of the Pelasgi and that of the people in Upper Egypt and Ethiopia ; as well as from the traditions and geographical names common to the Pelasgic nations , the Egyptians , and the Ethiopians .
FRENCH MARINE . IN a memoir on the state of the French marine , at the beginning of the fourteenth century , M . Legrand described the naval battle of 1304 . between the French and the Flemings , a very particular account of which he found in a history , in verse , entitled , La Brancbe att . x Roymtx Lignages , written in 1306 by William Gmart . This small work , consisting of fifteen or sixteen verses , one ofthe oldest now extant on the history ofthe French navy , gives
a very accurate description of the n wal tactics and manoeuvres of that period . M . Legrand has employed it to make known the different kinds of vessels of which squadrons were then composed , and the manner of fitting them out either for . attack or defence . From this memoir it results that , unti . l Francis J . the Kings of France had no regular navy ; and that , in their naval w . ars , they were accustomed to purchase or hire privateers , ready equipped and manned ; or merchant ships , which they manned themselves and furnished with warlike machines . This memoir is an extract of a History of the Arts ' and Sciences in France , on which M . Legrand has been employed for several years . ...
INVENTION OF PRINTING , GUNPOWDER , COMPASS , & c . ' ¦ ' M . LANGLES has already contested with the Europeans the invention of the compass , of paper , and of printing , in order to assign them to the Orientals . In a new memoir on gunpowder he deprives the German monk , Eerthold Schwartz , ofthe fatal honour of that terrible invention , andasscrts that it was conveyed to us from the Arabs . He assures us , that they made iise of it , in 1690 at the siege of Mecca ; and he addsthat the Arabs derived
, , it from the Indians , among whom it was known in the remotest antiquity , since their sacred books ( the Vedam ) forbid the use of it in war . M . Langits is of opinion , that a knowledge of these different inventions might have come to us from the East on the return of the crusaders . There is an interval , however , of two centuries between the last crusade and the first typographical attempts of Guttemberg in the city of Strasbourg about the year 1440 . Gunpowder was earlier known in Europe than printing ; but it does not appear
that it was employed there in war before the battle of Creci , where the English had six pieces of cannon . If the conjectures of M . Langles are well founded , the Europeans , at present , only carry back to the East knowledge which we formerly borrowed from that quarter . Thus every thing changes on the face ofthe globe ; the arts are lost in one' nation to be revived in another ; nations themselves are effaced anel disappear ; and vast accumulations of water covered formerly those countries which we inhabit at present . All this proves , that the small globe upon which we reside is very old ; and that to live a century or two is nothing . We have scarcel y time' to commence our studies ,
NAVIGATION . . A NEW machine , invented by Count T . H . Bathiani , to ascend the river 3 gainst the stream without any manual assistance , was lately tried on tlie jDanube . The machine weighed more than 700 centners , and a load 0 / 45 ° centners was fastened to it , together with a sloop . The experiment wa . » completely successful .