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For the workshop



It can be gathered from the words of Herodotus that the
navigation of the Portuguese was not newly invented by them as
they brag. At the beginning of the first book entitled Clio, he
says that the Phoenicians would come from the Red Sea
by continuous navigation to the coast of Greece, mainly to
Argos, to which they would carry merchandise from
Egypt & from Assyria, which they usually sold out
of within 6 days.



Navigation, trade

Herodotus, on the first page of Clio, says that the
Greeks were on a long ship on the coast of Colchis
& to the river Phasis, whence they carried off
Medea.


Galleys.

Herodotus, on the third page, says that Gyges
presented to the temple of Delphipateras aureas sex pondo 30
talentorum.

Gold vases

Herodotus. Halyattes, the father of Croesus,
pateram ex ferro compactilem
apud Delphos dedicavit spectatu dignam inter omnia quae sunt
Delphis donaria, opus Glauci Chii qui solus omnium
compactionem ferri excogitavit.Compactile
ferrum, which is made by assembly
& things joined.

Iron vase joined and soldered

As small peddlers lay open small wares in order to buy
richer ones & to profit more and more, so I, from a desire to learn,
am exposing what little is in my workshop to have
it receive, through a common commerce of letters, much rarer
secrets from my benevolent readers.


Aes ustum

 Once finely pulverized, it molds very neatly & has a certain
fatness that gives it binding |, more than
crocum, & I believe that it would not be
inappropriate for a cast.


Rotten wood

The one which is white, light like a sponge, once burned in
a closed fire, can be used for a frame for lead, and
molds very neatly. But such things do not endure fire.

