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Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.10

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.10

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c25.10

These plates are made of good malleable copper and worked with considerable art...From all this we may conclude that at so distant a period of 700 years copper was not a scarce article among the Indians as in this instance they use it so plentifully, and that it was not a new one for it is here a pure metal and worked with skill.