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You should know that the inventor (retained at this time by James I at his Court in England) and my inestimable friend Cornelis Drebbel, about whom my dear father had misguided but goodly conceptions, had presented me with my first box, having, after my eyes had first fallen on the machine some months previously during my second stay in England, corrected a most simple but irritating impediment to its perfection, the inversion of the image, by the time I returned for my longer, third stay.
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You should know that the inventor (retained at this time by James I at his Court in England) and my inestimable friend Cornelis Drebbel, about whom my dear father had misguided but goodly conceptions, had presented me with my first box, having, after my eyes had first fallen on the machine some months previously during my second stay in England, corrected a most simple but irritating impediment to its perfection, the inversion of the image, by the time I returned for my longer, third stay.
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My good friend in England, Cornelis Drebbel, 'and here my father unfortunately coughed lightly, for I knew with this he subtly expressed his disapproval, ‘My good friend Drebbel constructed for me, and, indeed, modified, an earlier kind from that which I first encountered it, which is to say (another cough!
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‘My good friend in England, Cornelis Drebbel, 'and here my father unfortunately coughed lightly, for I knew with this he subtly expressed his disapproval, ‘My good friend Drebbel constructed for me, and, indeed, modified, an earlier kind from that which I first encountered it, which is to say (another cough!
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181-234 • Penemuan sepatu kuda 770 • Teori terbang oleh Leonardo da Vinci 1492 • Penemuan Kapal Selam - Cornelis Drebbel 1620 • Sistem bis pertama, ditarik oleh kuda, rute teap terjadwal - Blaise Pascal 1662
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181-234 • Penemuan sepatu kuda 770 • Teori terbang oleh Leonardo da Vinci 1492 • Penemuan Kapal Selam - Cornelis Drebbel 1620 • Sistem bis pertama, ditarik oleh kuda, rute teap terjadwal - Blaise Pascal 1662
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"Born around 1572 in Alkmaar, North Holland, Cornelis Drebbel was a colorful character in more ways than one. An inventor, he built a 'perpetual-motion' machine that became the sensation of early-seventeenth-century Europe. Later he built the first submarine. To the great amazement of Londoners who crowded the riverbanks to watch, the leather-covered boat carried a dozen oarsmen and traveled under hte Thames for three hours; apparently Drebbel generated an oxygen supply for the crew by burning saltpeter--another first. The Dutch diplomat and amateur scientist Constantijn Huygens the Elder wrote admiringly of Drebbel's 'remarkable mechanical instruments.' To Robert Boyle, he was 'that deservedly famous Mechanician and Chymist,' to Baron von Leibniz, 'le fameux Drebbel.' ...
True to form, Drebbel left no personal record of his experiments with cochineal, so no one knows exactly how he stumbled onto one of the dyestuff's unusual characteristics: its great affinity for tin."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 136 and 138.
October 5, 2017