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the prime of her years, attired in a fplendid habit, fitting ma*
jeftically in a chair of ftate, a crown of gold on her head, ho]d~
ing in her right hand a bundle of rods bound together, and a
garland of laurel, and, in her left, a head-piece ; on her right-
fide is a bafon and a purfe full of gold and precious jewels, and
on her left hand an ax.
ARITHMETIC, is painted in cloth of gold, or other-
wife, as a beautiful lady, in garments of different colours, be-
fprinkled with mufical notes, and in the fkirts is writen par and
impar, even and odd ; in her left-hand the numeration table.
Her handfomenefs denotes the heautv of all things in number,
weight, and meafure ; her perfect age fhews the perfection of
this art; the various colours fhew, that fhe gives principles to
all parts of the mathematics.
ARMENUS Bolus, i. e. bole armoniac or ammoniac, a
kind of earth brought from Armenia. It is of a pale-red co-
lour, and partakes much of the nature of Hone ; but is foft, fat,
friable, eaiily pulverifed, and flicks to the tongue.
This bole is eafily falfified, and the merchants frequently
fell Lcmnian earth inftead of it.
Alatthiolus fays, it is found in gold, filver, and copper mines.
ARMONIAC, 1 is a fort of volatile fait, of which there
Ammoniac, ) are two kinds, ancient and modern.
The ancient fal Armoniac, called, alfo, fal Cyreniac, de-
fcribed by Pliny and Diofcorides, was a native fait, generated
in the earth, or rather the fands, in thofe large inns or cara •
vanfera's, where the crowds of pilgrims, coming from all parts
to the temple of Jupiter Amman, were wont to lodge. The
way of conveyance being, in thofe parts, commonly by camels;
and thofe creatures, when in Cyrene, a province of Egypt,
wherein that celebrated temple flood, urining in the ftables,
or, as fome fay, in the parched fands : Of this urine, which is
remarkably ftrong, fublimed by the heat of the fun, arofe a
kind of fait, fometimes called Ammoniac, and fometimes Cy-
reniac, from the region.
This fait being no longer found in thefe parts, fome authors
fufpect there never was any fuch thing; and that the ancient,
as well as the modern fal Armoniac, was factitious.
The modern fal Armoniac is compound and faclitious.
The public has been for a long time at a lofs, both as to the
place from whence it comes, and how it was made; all that was
known for certain, was, that it came from the Levant.
But Sicard, thejefuit, fays, it is made in Egypt, in a fort
pf ovens, contrived for the purpofe, the tops of which are per-
forated with feveral longitudinal clefts; and on thefe clefts are
2 )ak]
the prime of her years, attired in a fplendid habit, fitting ma*
jeftically in a chair of ftate, a crown of gold on her head, ho]d~
ing in her right hand a bundle of rods bound together, and a
garland of laurel, and, in her left, a head-piece ; on her right-
fide is a bafon and a purfe full of gold and precious jewels, and
on her left hand an ax.
ARITHMETIC, is painted in cloth of gold, or other-
wife, as a beautiful lady, in garments of different colours, be-
fprinkled with mufical notes, and in the fkirts is writen par and
impar, even and odd ; in her left-hand the numeration table.
Her handfomenefs denotes the heautv of all things in number,
weight, and meafure ; her perfect age fhews the perfection of
this art; the various colours fhew, that fhe gives principles to
all parts of the mathematics.
ARMENUS Bolus, i. e. bole armoniac or ammoniac, a
kind of earth brought from Armenia. It is of a pale-red co-
lour, and partakes much of the nature of Hone ; but is foft, fat,
friable, eaiily pulverifed, and flicks to the tongue.
This bole is eafily falfified, and the merchants frequently
fell Lcmnian earth inftead of it.
Alatthiolus fays, it is found in gold, filver, and copper mines.
ARMONIAC, 1 is a fort of volatile fait, of which there
Ammoniac, ) are two kinds, ancient and modern.
The ancient fal Armoniac, called, alfo, fal Cyreniac, de-
fcribed by Pliny and Diofcorides, was a native fait, generated
in the earth, or rather the fands, in thofe large inns or cara •
vanfera's, where the crowds of pilgrims, coming from all parts
to the temple of Jupiter Amman, were wont to lodge. The
way of conveyance being, in thofe parts, commonly by camels;
and thofe creatures, when in Cyrene, a province of Egypt,
wherein that celebrated temple flood, urining in the ftables,
or, as fome fay, in the parched fands : Of this urine, which is
remarkably ftrong, fublimed by the heat of the fun, arofe a
kind of fait, fometimes called Ammoniac, and fometimes Cy-
reniac, from the region.
This fait being no longer found in thefe parts, fome authors
fufpect there never was any fuch thing; and that the ancient,
as well as the modern fal Armoniac, was factitious.
The modern fal Armoniac is compound and faclitious.
The public has been for a long time at a lofs, both as to the
place from whence it comes, and how it was made; all that was
known for certain, was, that it came from the Levant.
But Sicard, thejefuit, fays, it is made in Egypt, in a fort
pf ovens, contrived for the purpofe, the tops of which are per-
forated with feveral longitudinal clefts; and on thefe clefts are
2 )ak]