Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Inventions and Discoveries, Vol. 4 of 4
IT is generally believed that the metal called at present tin was known and employed in the arts, not only in the time of Pliny, but Oso early as that of Herodotus, Homer, and Moses. This I will not venture to deny; but I can only admit that it is probable, or that the great antiquity of this metal cannot be so fully proved as that Of gold, 'silver, copper, iron, lead, and quicksilver.
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