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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 762 — ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.

William Johnston translation

Philostrat. in Vita Apollon. lib. iii. cap. 57, edit. Olearii, p. 139. Conrade Gesner, in his Hist. Nat. lib. iv. p. 634, gives a more correct translation of the passage.

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