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Forty Centuries of Ink; or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curi by David Nunes Carvalho
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CHAPTER I.

GENESIS OF INK.

THE ORIGIN OF INK--COMPOSITION OF THE COLORED
INKS OF ANTIQUITY--ANCIENT NAMES FOR BLACK
INKS--METHODS OF THEIR MANUFACTURE--THE INVENTION
OF "INDIAN" INK--THE ART OF DYEING
HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED--THE SYMBOLIC ESTIMATION
OF COLORS--THE EMPLOYMENT OF TINCTURES
AS INKS--CONSIDERATION OF THE ANTIQUITY
OF ARTIFICIAL INKS AND THE BLACK INKS OF INTERMEDIATE
TIMES--ORIGIN OF THE COLORED PIGMENTS
OF ANTIQUITY-CITATIONS FROM HERODOTUS,
PLINY AND ARBUTHNOT--PRICES CURRENT, OF ANCIENT
INKS AND COLORS--WHY THE NATURAL INKS
FORMERLY EMPLOYED ARE NOT STILL EXTANT--THE
KIND OF INK EMPLOYED BY THE PRIESTS IN THE
TIME OF MOSES--ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORY OF THE
EGYPTIANS IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WRITING
IMPLEMENTS--THE USE OF BOTH RED AND BLACK INK
IN JOSEPH'S TIME--ITS OTHER HISTORY PRECEDING
THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT--THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL BUT A FEW KINDS OF
INK--INK TRADITIONS AND THEIR VALUE--STORY
ABOUT THE ORACLES OF THE SIBYLS--HOW THE ANCIENT
HISTORIANS SOUGHT TO BE MISLEADING--ILLUSTRATIVE
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