5 OF THE ORIGIN OF CHEMISTRY. 



v.ho imagined that it contained gold; but, from 

 making ievcral experiments without iuccei?, 

 he learned the life ot' it as a pigment *. 



Philippus Comicus, writing ot' thofe times 

 be lore the origin of the Grecian monarchy, ai- 

 ferts, that Daedalus took ww ** to animate a 

 wooden itatuc, the knowledge of which metal 

 he no doubt owed to the prieiK ot' Memphis ; 

 but, that Hermes ever obtained it from cinna- 

 bar, we can fcarcely believe. Thcophrallus 

 Ere lius and Arillotle fpeak allb of this metal ). 



Sculpture and ilatuary, though, perhaps, they 

 did not owe their rile, yet were they indebted 

 for the'u* perfection to the images of the gods. 

 Dibutates, tlie Sicyon potter, was the fir It that 

 \vroiiglit clay, at Corinth, into various figures 

 and likenefles. Some indeed are ot opinion, 

 that Rhecus and Theodoras, in Samos, had in- 

 ver.ted the plallic art, long before the Bacchia- 

 diu were driven from Corinth J. J-Jeiore the ta- 

 king of Troy, Dadahis the Athenian carved 

 figures on wood ; bur. Dipocnus and Scillis, 

 born in the ifle of Crete, about the fiftieth Olym- 

 piad (570 years before Chri(l) \\cre the firll 

 \vho iignali/.ed thcmfeJves by fculpiurc in mar- 

 ble 5, The moil anciejit feais oi' the Cricks 



bear 



% DC LpMibin. 



{ Met. 4. 8. Dcauima, I. i 



*. Pliity xxxiv. 1 2. 



Piinv xxxvi. 4. 



