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

Note 1246 — WIRE-DRAWING.

William Johnston translation

Lib. xxxiii. cap. 4.—Aldrovandus relates, in his Museum Metallicum, that the grave of the wife of the emperor Honorius was discovered at Rome about the year 1544, and that thirty-six pounds of gold were procured from the mouldered dress which contained the body.

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