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

Note y — TIN. TINNING.

William Johnston translation

Plin. xxxiv. 17, § 48, p. 669; and lib. xxxiii. § 45: Optima specula apud majores fuerant Brundisiana stanno et ære mixtis. From a similar mixture the best metallic specula are cast at present.

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