Smeaton and Lighthouses
Author | : John Smeaton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Smeaton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2021-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John SMEATON (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Tomlinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Smeaton |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781437050936 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : John Smeaton |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781530492909 |
"[...]merchant of Edessa, for a sum, it is said, equal to thirty-six thousand pounds. But the most celebrated lighthouse of antiquity was that erected about the year 283 B. C. by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, on the island of Pharos, opposite to Alexandria. It is from the name of this island that lighthouses have received their generic name of Pharos. Strabo records, that the architect Sostratus, having first secretly carved his own name on the solid walls of the building, covered the words with plaster, and in obedience to Ptolemy's command inscribed thereon, 'King Ptolemy to the gods the preservers, for the benefit of sailors.' The height of this building is stated at four hundred feet; but this, as well as many other accounts relating to it, must [...]".
Author | : Charles Tomlinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
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Author | : John Smeaton (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Chromolithography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Smeaton |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358168628 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : |