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If we are looking for scientific apparatus, there is fornax a chemical furnace, microscopium, sextans and telescopium, and there is probably more that I have forgotten, but I don't know they belong to anyone in particular.
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As for the origin of the name California, some etymologists contend that it is derived from two Latin words: _calida fornax_; or, as the Spanish put it, _caliente fornalla_, -- a hot furnace.
In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876
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_ Mount Ætna is derived very truly by Bochart from Aituna, fornax; as being a reservoir of molten matter.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Vafa ffguli probat fornax, 5c h6mmes juftos tentdtio tribulati6 - nis.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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Oh, callida fornax ", hence the name" California ".
Mexico Connect Latest Articles Tony Burton 2009
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Oh, callida fornax ", hence the name" California ".
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