 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1909 - 500 pages
...little Pamphlet styled Nuiitius Inanimatus, commonly ascribed to a late Reverend Bishop : wherein hee affirms that there are certain ways to discourse with...close dungeon, in a besieged City," or a hundred miles away. This high-sounding promise at first inspired Wilkins rather with " wonder than beliefe," but,... | |
 | Electric power - 1922 - 734 pages
...Class III, and the number of the letter was shown by the number of times a torch was elevated. 1 " That which first occasioned this Discourse, was the reading of a little Pamphlet, stiled, Nuntius Inanimatus (by Dr. Francis Godwin) ; wherein he affirms that there are certain ways to discourse with a Friend,... | |
 | 1922 - 736 pages
...Class III, and the number of the letter was shown by the number of times a torch was elevated. 1 " That which first occasioned this Discourse, was the reading of a little Pamphlet, stiled, Nuntius Inanimatus (by Dr. Francis Godwin) ; wherein he affirms that there are certain ways to discourse with a Friend,... | |
 | Jessica Wolfe - History - 2004 - 326 pages
...means of communication, including gestures, smoke signals, and sound-carrying devices such as pipes "to discourse with a Friend, though he were in a close...Dungeon, in a besieged City, or a hundred miles off." Though some of the media recommended by Wilkins, such as birds, are in fact animate creatures, many... | |
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That which first occasioned this discourse, was the reading of a little pamphlet stiled Nuntius Inanimatus, commonly ascribed to a late reverend bishop; wherein he affirms, that there are certain ways to discourse with a friend, though he were in a close(d)... 