| William Andrus Alcott - Anatomy - 1839 - 276 pages
...MUSCLES. — In front of St. Peter's Church, at Rome^ stands an obelisk of red Egyptian granite, 124 feet high. It was brought from Egypt to Rome, by order...earth, on the spot where it was laid down, till about 250 years ago, when Pope Sixtus V, by the help of forty-one strong pieces of machinery, eight hundred... | |
| Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols - Anatomy - 1842 - 310 pages
...many of you. " In front of St. Peter's church at Rome, stands an obelisk of red Egyptian granite, 124 feet high. It was brought from Egypt to Rome, by order of the Roman Emperor Caligula. However, it lay partly buried in the earth, where it was laid down, till about 250 years ago, when... | |
| Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols - Anatomy - 1846 - 328 pages
...many of you. " In front of St. Peter's Church at Rome stands an obelisk of red Egyptian granite, l24 feet high. It was brought from Egypt to Rome by order of the Roman Emperor Caligula. However, it lay partly buried in the earth, where it was laid down, till about 250 years ago, when... | |
| Lydia Folger Fowler - Phrenology - 1848 - 338 pages
...expansion of muscles if you will take a piece of india rubber and stretch it. This will show THE ARM the expansion ; and when you remove your hand it will...Rome, by order of the Roman emperor Caligula, where 66. What are the uses of the trunk ? 67. How can yon show what is meant by the expansion of muscles... | |
| Lydia Folger Fowler - Mind and body - 1854 - 326 pages
...and stretch it. This will show THE ABM the expansion ; and when you remove your hand it wiL take itf original size and appearance ; this will show the...Rome, by order of the Roman emperor Caligula, where 66. What are the uses of the trunk 7 67. How can you show what ia meant by the expansion of muscles... | |
| House - Physiology - 1869 - 210 pages
...obelisk of red Egyptian granite, upwards of one hundred and twenty feet in height. It was conveyed from Egypt to Rome, by order of the Roman Emperor Caligula, where it remained partly buried in the earth on the spot where it had been deposited, until about two hundred... | |
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