Brew \Brew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing.]
[OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br?wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. ? (for ??) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. ``She brews good ale.'' --Shak. 3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak. 4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! --Milton. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) http://www.dictionary.net/brew
Ooops. Dirk already provided The NYorker link. Bradford, et al., it's been my experience that, since 2002, the trend on that site has been to restore links rather than to remove them. Let's hope my experience is a fair sample and. if so, that the trend continues.
Re Bradford: Link to The New Yorker Steven Shapin review of Tom Standage’s “A History of the World in 6 Glasses.” in which Pepys's experience is cited throughout: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/…
“Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. Non-grape wines are called fruit wine or country wine….” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
"Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. Non-grape wines are called fruit wine or country wine...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
Bradford, L&M suggest perhaps Emanuel Luffe, a German.
7 December 1661: "This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the German, Emanuel Luffe, who goes as one of my Lord’s footmen...." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
John M, to construe "took" as "caught, seized, apprehended" makes sense of the whole passage. Shame on Ashwell, who should be "above" such behavior, to lower herself so!
“The duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system is a numeral system using twelve as its base. The number ten may be written as A, the number eleven as B, and the number twelve as 10.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duod…
“It is obvious…that when a number system based on ten and a measuring system based on twelve inches to the foot collide, ‘decimals’ cannot be used, and usually it is necessary to reduce the whole problem to inches, with long computations and eventual divisions by 1,728 to obtain cubic feet. We were able to show [shipping] clerks [attempting to calulate and add the volumes of several boxes] that by using duodecimal multiplication with the inches now simply duodecimals of feet (i.e., 2’6? is simply 2;6 - two and six-twelfths feet) - and pointing off three places in the answer, the problem is amazingly simplified." “My Love Affair with Dozens” by F. Emerson Andrews, *Michigan Quarterly Review*, Volume XI, Number 2, Spring, 1972 http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/…
Tel, to be clear, the "Puzzling equations" expressed in decimals referenced above are relevant to A. your Q. since they appear on "a small silver oval medallion (approximately 48 x 37 mm) held in a private collection....The object is revealed as a witness to the virtuoso amateur culture of mathematics in 17th-century England." http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj…
tel, likely so. Consider these, courtesy of Dirk in the Background info on Mathematics:
"The first mediaeval Oxford mathematician of note was John of Holywood or John de Sacro Bosco, as he was usually called. He died in 1244. He was educated at Oxford but subsequently moved to Paris and taught there. His best known books are De Algorithmo (or the art of computing in the decimal system)" http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about/h…
Puzzling equations are found to be calclations of interest due "expressed decimally rather than in £.s.d and would need to be converted in use; the large number of significant figures gives sufficient precision for all ordinary calculations." http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj…
The L&M transciption is "Duodecimall arithmetique" -
Pehaps contra “My Love Affair with Dozens” by F. Emerson Andrews, Simon Stevin did not even "seem" to have mentioned "duodecimals" in the Robert Norton 1608 English translation of "La Theinde", “DISME: The Art of Tenths, or, Decimall arithmetike”.
"The duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system is a numeral system using twelve as its base. The number ten may be written as A, the number eleven as B, and the number twelve as 10." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duod…
"It is obvious...that when a number system based on ten and a measuring system based on twelve inches to the foot collide, 'decimals' cannot be used, and usually it is necessary to reduce the whole problem to inches, with long computations and eventual divisions by 1,728 to obtain cubic feet. We were able to show [shipping] clerks [attempting to calulate and add the volumes of several boxes] that by using duodecimal multiplication with the inches now simply duodecimals of feet (i.e., 2'6? is simply 2;6 - two and six-twelfths feet) - and pointing off three places in the answer, the problem is amazingly simplified....
[ this paper recounted the preceding later than the following ]
"A book by Simon Stevin seems to have mentioned [duodecimals] as early as 1585 [*La Theinde* (The tenth)...in which decimals were introduced in Europe;...Robert Norton published an English translation of La Theinde in London in 1608....titled Disme, The Arts of Tenths or Decimal Arithmetike and it was this translation which inspired Thomas Jefferson to propose a decimal currency for the United States (note that one tenth of a dollar is still called a dime).]"
"My Love Affair with Dozens" by F. Emerson Andrews, *Michigan Quarterly Review*, Volume XI, Number 2, Spring, 1972 http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/…
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About Wednesday 10 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Wine can, of course, be mulled (after fermenting)
Mull \Mull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mulling.]
[From mulled, for mold, taken as a p. p.; OE. mold-ale funeral ale or banquet. See Mold soil.]
1. To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
New cider, mulled with ginger warm. --Gay.
2. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. --Shak.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
***
O, the many things we do and potions we make for intoxication!
About Wednesday 10 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"Brew" in the non-euphemistic or honorific sense
Brew \Brew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing.]
[OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br?wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. ? (for ??) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]
1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. ``She brews good ale.'' --Shak.
3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak.
4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! --Milton.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
http://www.dictionary.net/brew
About Wine
TerryF • Link
Ooops. Dirk already provided The NYorker link. Bradford, et al., it's been my experience that, since 2002, the trend on that site has been to restore links rather than to remove them. Let's hope my experience is a fair sample and. if so, that the trend continues.
About Wine
TerryF • Link
Re Bradford: Link to The New Yorker Steven Shapin review of Tom Standage’s “A History of the World in 6 Glasses.” in which Pepys's experience is cited throughout: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/…
About Wine
TerryF • Link
Wine
“Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. Non-grape wines are called fruit wine or country wine….” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
About Vizard
TerryF • Link
viz·ard also vis·ard...n.
A visor or mask.
A disguise.
[Alteration of obsolete vizar, from Middle English viser. See visor.]
http://www.answers.com/topic/viza…
Visor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Vizard (Shakespearean English))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viza…
About Wednesday 10 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Wine
"Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. Non-grape wines are called fruit wine or country wine...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
About Wednesday 10 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Bradford, L&M suggest perhaps Emanuel Luffe, a German.
7 December 1661: "This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the German, Emanuel Luffe, who goes as one of my Lord’s footmen...." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Wednesday 10 June 1663
TerryF • Link
John M, to construe "took" as "caught, seized, apprehended" makes sense of the whole passage.
Shame on Ashwell, who should be "above" such behavior, to lower herself so!
About Mathematics
TerryF • Link
duodecimal arithmetique
“The duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system is a numeral system using twelve as its base. The number ten may be written as A, the number eleven as B, and the number twelve as 10.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duod…
“It is obvious…that when a number system based on ten and a measuring system based on twelve inches to the foot collide, ‘decimals’ cannot be used, and usually it is necessary to reduce the whole problem to inches, with long computations and eventual divisions by 1,728 to obtain cubic feet. We were able to show [shipping] clerks [attempting to calulate and add the volumes of several boxes] that by using duodecimal multiplication with the inches now simply duodecimals of feet (i.e., 2’6? is simply 2;6 - two and six-twelfths feet) - and pointing off three places in the answer, the problem is amazingly simplified." “My Love Affair with Dozens” by F. Emerson Andrews, *Michigan Quarterly Review*, Volume XI, Number 2, Spring, 1972 http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/…
Pepys was introduced to duodecimal arithmetique 9 June 1663 by Mr. Jonas Moore. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Tel, to be clear, the "Puzzling equations" expressed in decimals referenced above are relevant to A. your Q. since they appear on "a small silver oval medallion (approximately 48 x 37 mm) held in a private collection....The object is revealed as a witness to the virtuoso amateur culture of mathematics in 17th-century England." http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj…
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
What system was customary? "Surely not decimal?"
tel, likely so. Consider these, courtesy of Dirk in the Background info on Mathematics:
"The first mediaeval Oxford mathematician of note was John of Holywood or John de Sacro Bosco, as he was usually called. He died in 1244. He was educated at Oxford but subsequently moved to Paris and taught there. His best known books are De Algorithmo (or the art of computing in the decimal system)" http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about/h…
Puzzling equations are found to be calclations of interest due "expressed decimally rather than in £.s.d and would need to be converted in use; the large number of significant figures gives sufficient precision for all ordinary calculations."
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj…
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Duodecimal
The L&M transciption is "Duodecimall arithmetique" -
Pehaps contra “My Love Affair with Dozens” by F. Emerson Andrews, Simon Stevin did not even "seem" to have mentioned "duodecimals" in the Robert Norton 1608 English translation of "La Theinde", “DISME: The Art of Tenths, or, Decimall arithmetike”.
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"Please enlighten me. Did they dance to music?"
In one day's entry it was said that they couldn't dance because Ashwell wasn't there - presumably to provide musical accompaniment.
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Australian Susan, I'll step aside for awhile.
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Tom Lehrer's New Math song's lyrics
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/t…
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94…
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
TerryF • Link
duodecimal arithmetique
"The duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system is a numeral system using twelve as its base. The number ten may be written as A, the number eleven as B, and the number twelve as 10." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duod…
"It is obvious...that when a number system based on ten and a measuring system based on twelve inches to the foot collide, 'decimals' cannot be used, and usually it is necessary to reduce the whole problem to inches, with long computations and eventual divisions by 1,728 to obtain cubic feet. We were able to show [shipping] clerks [attempting to calulate and add the volumes of several boxes] that by using duodecimal multiplication with the inches now simply duodecimals of feet (i.e., 2'6? is simply 2;6 - two and six-twelfths feet) - and pointing off three places in the answer, the problem is amazingly simplified....
[ this paper recounted the preceding later than the following ]
"A book by Simon Stevin seems to have mentioned [duodecimals] as early as 1585 [*La Theinde* (The tenth)...in which decimals were introduced in Europe;...Robert Norton published an English translation of La Theinde in London in 1608....titled Disme, The Arts of Tenths or Decimal Arithmetike and it was this translation which inspired Thomas Jefferson to propose a decimal currency for the United States (note that one tenth of a dollar is still called a dime).]"
"My Love Affair with Dozens" by F. Emerson Andrews, *Michigan Quarterly Review*, Volume XI, Number 2, Spring, 1972 http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/…
The text of "DISME: The Art of Tenths, or, Decimall arithmetike" is online at http://home.wxs.nl/~hopfam/Dime.h…
About Monday 8 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Spat, make up, spat, etc. and Samuel off and away -
How wearing for Elizabeth, no? Where is *she* in the meantime?
About Monday 8 June 1663
TerryF • Link
PS - correction (me too)
"unweighed" should be "unweighable."