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 The following epigram, by Claudian, on the glass sphere of Archimedes, has always been deservedly admired.

Galileo invented the telescope about the year 1609; and also the pendulum, which was first applied to clock-work by his son.

A pretty description of a still.

So Pope,

We have had so much about glass in these little poems, that I cannot refrain from adding the following admirable passage from the Rambler, on the manufacture of that useful article: