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

Note 678 — VANES. WEATHERCOCKS.

William Johnston translation

In Ughelli Italia Sacra, Romæ, 1652, fol. iv. p. 735, we find the following inscription on a weathercock then existing at Brixen:—“Dominus Rampertus Episc. gallum hunc fieri præcepit an. 820.”

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