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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MAPS AND PLANS
- DIAGRAM
- COMPARATIVE TABLE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEASURES, EXACT AND APPROXIMATE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION.—AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR, AND NARRATIVE OF HIS WORK AT TROY
- CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY OF THE TROJANS (οἱ Τρῶες)
- CHAPTER II ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TROJANS: THEIR SEVERAL DOMINIONS IN THE TROAD: TOPOGRAPHY OF TROY
- CHAPTER III THE HISTORY OF TROY
- CHAPTER IV THE TRUE SITE OF HOMER'S ILIUM
- CHAPTER V THE FIRST PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE HILL OF HISSARLIK
- CHAPTER VI THE SECOND PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY
- CHAPTER VII THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 305 to 357
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 358 to 413
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 414 to 465
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 466 to 517
- CHAPTER VIII THE FOURTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY
- CHAPTER IX THE FIFTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY OF TROY
- CHAPTER X THE SIXTH CITY, MOST PROBABLY A LYDIAN SETTLEMENT
- CHAPTER XI THE SEVENTH CITY: THE GREEK ILIUM; OR NOVUM ILIUM
- CHAPTER XII THE CONICAL MOUNDS IN THE TROAD CALLED THE HEROIC TUMULI
- APPENDIX I TROY AND HISSARLIK
- APPENDIX II ON THE RELATION OF NOVUM ILIUM TO THE ILIOS OF HOMER
- APPENDIX III THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT HISSARLIK
- APPENDIX IV THYMBRA, HANAÏ TEPEH
- APPENDIX V MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE TROAD IN 1869
- APPENDIX VI CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS HITHERTO KNOWN OF THE TROAD, COMPILED ACCORDING TO THE COLLECTIONS OF PROFESSOR RUDOLF VIRCHOW AND DR. JULIUS SCHMIDT, AND FROM THE LITERARY SOURCES BY PROFESSOR PAUL ASCHERSON OF BERLIN, PROFESSOR THEODOR VON HELDREICH OF ATHENS, AND DOCTOR F. KURTZ OF BERLIN
- APPENDIX VII ON THE LOST ART OF HARDENING COPPER
- APPENDIX VIII ON HERA BOÖPIS
- APPENDIX IX TROY AND EGYPT
- INDEX
- Plate section
APPENDIX VII - ON THE LOST ART OF HARDENING COPPER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MAPS AND PLANS
- DIAGRAM
- COMPARATIVE TABLE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEASURES, EXACT AND APPROXIMATE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION.—AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR, AND NARRATIVE OF HIS WORK AT TROY
- CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY OF THE TROJANS (οἱ Τρῶες)
- CHAPTER II ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TROJANS: THEIR SEVERAL DOMINIONS IN THE TROAD: TOPOGRAPHY OF TROY
- CHAPTER III THE HISTORY OF TROY
- CHAPTER IV THE TRUE SITE OF HOMER'S ILIUM
- CHAPTER V THE FIRST PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE HILL OF HISSARLIK
- CHAPTER VI THE SECOND PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY
- CHAPTER VII THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 305 to 357
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 358 to 413
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 414 to 465
- THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY, Page 466 to 517
- CHAPTER VIII THE FOURTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY ON THE SITE OF TROY
- CHAPTER IX THE FIFTH PRE-HISTORIC CITY OF TROY
- CHAPTER X THE SIXTH CITY, MOST PROBABLY A LYDIAN SETTLEMENT
- CHAPTER XI THE SEVENTH CITY: THE GREEK ILIUM; OR NOVUM ILIUM
- CHAPTER XII THE CONICAL MOUNDS IN THE TROAD CALLED THE HEROIC TUMULI
- APPENDIX I TROY AND HISSARLIK
- APPENDIX II ON THE RELATION OF NOVUM ILIUM TO THE ILIOS OF HOMER
- APPENDIX III THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT HISSARLIK
- APPENDIX IV THYMBRA, HANAÏ TEPEH
- APPENDIX V MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE TROAD IN 1869
- APPENDIX VI CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS HITHERTO KNOWN OF THE TROAD, COMPILED ACCORDING TO THE COLLECTIONS OF PROFESSOR RUDOLF VIRCHOW AND DR. JULIUS SCHMIDT, AND FROM THE LITERARY SOURCES BY PROFESSOR PAUL ASCHERSON OF BERLIN, PROFESSOR THEODOR VON HELDREICH OF ATHENS, AND DOCTOR F. KURTZ OF BERLIN
- APPENDIX VII ON THE LOST ART OF HARDENING COPPER
- APPENDIX VIII ON HERA BOÖPIS
- APPENDIX IX TROY AND EGYPT
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
Some years ago, while engaged in writing on the Incas of Peru, their civilization and knowledge of the fine and the industrial arts, I came to doubt what has been so confidently set forth by some historians, that the Children of the Sun knew of a secret in metallurgy that baffles the scientific knowledge of the nineteenth century to discover. It is true that the Incas had their mirrors of polished copper, which their women greatly prized; and did not Humboldt bring to Europe a copper chisel, that was found in a silver mine close to Cuzco? And is it not true that many of the vessels, weapons, tools, and ornaments, which belong to Incarial times and are now and again found in various parts of Peru, are of a brown complexion, and not blue or green with rust? And does not all this prove that the Incas possessed and practised the art of hardening copper?
The Incas were a wonderful people: their system of colonization and settlement is worthy the attention of modern statesmen. Their way of life was admirable and enviable for many things: no one, for example, of their kingdom could die for lack of bread; idleness was punished as a crime; no lawsuit could be postponed longer than five days. Everybody received an education peculiar to his state and condition.
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- IliosThe City and Country of the Trojans, pp. 737 - 739Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880