Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at assayer.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Assayer.

Examples

  • Assay Office $50 coin and of discussing the history of these California $50 gold coins issued by U.S. Assayer Augustus Humbert.

    Fresh Material, Pedigrees and September Coin Auctions — Part 2 : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • He gave it to his friend and future business partner, New York City watchmaker, August Humbert, the former U.S. Assayer in San Francisco.

    Contursi to display Kellogg $20 at Baltimore ANA : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • “It permits the Assayer to weigh all sorts of masses with few weights and could serve in coinage to give more value with fewer pieces,” he wrote in 1703.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • “It permits the Assayer to weigh all sorts of masses with few weights and could serve in coinage to give more value with fewer pieces,” he wrote in 1703.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • “It permits the Assayer to weigh all sorts of masses with few weights and could serve in coinage to give more value with fewer pieces,” he wrote in 1703.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • In The Assayer, he tried to show that comets were sublunary phenomena and that their properties could be explained by optical refraction.

    Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

  • While corpuscular theorists such as Galileo (The Assayer) sketched a reductive account of our sensations of taste in terms of particles striking our tongues, Locke suggests that any attempt to discover the process's details will be foiled.

    Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

  • In 1623 Galileo published The Assayer dealing with the comets and arguing they were sublunary phenomena.

    Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

  • One was on whether Galileo's trial came about because of his book the Assayer, published in 1623 summary of essay: "no".

    Archive 2008-04-01 Penny 2008

  • One was on whether Galileo's trial came about because of his book the Assayer, published in 1623 summary of essay: "no".

    Boring Post Penny 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.