Johannes Shad, of Mitelbrach,
carried this wonderful work with him to Rome, and showed it to
Pope Paul V., who saw and counted them all by the help of a pair of
spectacles. They were so little as to be almost invisible to the eye.
Johannes Ferrarius, a Jesuit, had in his posession cannons of wood,
with their carriages, wheels, and all other military furniture, all of
which were also contained in a pepper-corn of the ordinary size.
An artist, named Claudius Callus, made for Hippolytus d'Este, Cardinal
of Ferrara, representations of sundry birds setting on the tops of
trees, which, by hydraulic art and secret conveyance of water through
the trunks and branches of the trees, were made to sing and clap their
wings; but, at the sudden appearance of an owl out of a bush of the
same artifice, they immediately became all mute and silent.
CURIOUS DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BOOKS, CHAPTERS, VERSES, WORDS, LETTERS, ETC.
In the Old Testament. In the New Testament. Total.
Books 39 Books 27 66
Chapters 929 Chapters 260 1,189
Verses 23,814 Verses 7,959 81,178
Words 692,489 Words 281,258 773,697
Letters 2,728,100 Letters 838,880 3,566,480
Apocrypha--chapters, 183; verses, 6,081; words, 152,185.
The middle chapter and the least in the Bible is Psalm cxvii.
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