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Download or read book A History of Inventions and Discoveries Tr by W Johnston Vol 1 3 Volume 1 3 written by Johann Beckmann and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... CORN-MILLS. If under this name we comprehend all those machines, however rude, employed for pounding or grinding corn, these are of the highest antiquity. We read in the Scriptures, that Abraham caused cakes to be baked for his guests of the finest meal; and that the manna was ground like corn.--The earliest instrument used for this purpose seems to have been the mortar; which was retained a long time even after the invention of mills properly so called, because these, perhaps, at first were not attended with much superior advantage. J It appears, that, in the course of time, the mortar was made ridged and the pestle notched, at Genesis, ch. xviii. v. 6. t Numbers, ch. xi. v. 8. 'OA/xOv juev tpiiroSijv tapveiv, uTrepov Si tpiirriyuv, Hesiod. Opera et Dies, 421. Mortarium quidem tripedale seca, pistillum vero tricubitale. It appears, therefore, that both the mortar and pestle were then made of wood, and that the former was three feet in height; but, to speak the truth, it is not here expressly said that this mortar was for the purpose of pounding corn. The mortar was called ipof, pila; the pestle imipos, or imipm, pistillus or pistillum; to pound, paasuv, pinsere, 'which word, as well as pinsor, was afterwards retained when mills came to be used. Servius ad Virg. &n. i. 179. Majores mo larum usum non habebant. Frumenta torrebant, et ea in pilas missa pinsebant, et hoc erat genus molendi. Unde et pinsores dicti sunt, qui nunc pistores vocantur. Plin. lib. xviii. c. 3. least at the bottom; by which means the grain was rather grated than pounded. A passage of Pliny, not yet sufficiently cleared up, makes this conjecture probable. When a handle was added to the top of the pestle, that it might be more easily driven round in a circle, the...
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