FOOTNOTES:
[108] La vite femmina.
[109] Il mastio di ferro: i.e., so that the male screw can fit into it.
[110] Pani.
[111] Biette.
[112] Gli e di necessita che per la grandezza della chiocciola di bronzo, la quale ha da essere fatte in modo che la non balli nella staffa.
[113] A quella si attacca nella testa di sotto un pezza di corrente ... e bisogna che sia commesso in nella testa di sotto nella detta trave.
[114] Cioè a un lungo corrente. I give on the next page a diagram of what the upper portion of this machinery was probably like. Or it may be as Prof. Roberts-Austen shows it in the drawing in his Cantor Lecture on Alloys, Society of Arts Journal, March-April, 1884.
[115] Colpi di conio.
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW TO WORK IN LARGE WARE, IN GOLD AND SILVER AND SUCH LIKE.[116]
First will I speak of the methods I learnt in Rome and then of those that are used in Paris. Indeed I believe this city of Paris to be the most wonderful city in the world, and there they practise every branch of every art. I spent four years of my life there in the service of the great King Francis, who gave me opportunities of working out not only in all the arts of which I have been telling you, but also in the art of sculpture, and of that too I shall speak in its proper place.
Diagram illustrating the process of casting silver
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