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See the interactive periodic table.ElementSym-bolAtomicno.Atomicwt.SpecificgravityMeltingpoint °CBoilingpoint °CNo. ofisotopes1DiscovererYearActinium Ac 89 227210.0731051319811 Debierne/Giesel1899…Brewer's: Alfonsine Tables
Astronomical tables constructed in 1252, by Isaac Hazan, a Jewish rabbi, who named them in honour of his patron, Alfonso X., King of Castile, surnamed “The Wise.” Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Credence Table
The table near the altar on which the bread and wine are deposited before they are consecrated. In former times food was placed on a credence-table to be tasted previously to its being set…Brewer's: Eelkhance Tables
The celebrated calculation of Nazir' u Dien, the Persian astronomer, grandson of Zenghis Khan, brought out in the middle of the thirteenth century. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Lycaonian Tables
[Lycaoniæmensæ]. Execrable food. Lycaon, desirous of testing the divine knowledge of Jove, who had honoured him with a visit, served up human flesh on his table; for which the god changed…Brewer's: Round Table
Made by Merlin at Carduel for Uter Pendragon. Uter gave it to King Leodegraunce, of Camelyard, and King Leodegraunce gave it to Arthur when the latter married Guinever, his daughter. It…Brewer's: Rudolphine Tables
(The). Tabulae Rudolphinae, 1627. Astronomical calculations begun by Tycho Brahé, and continued by Kepler, under the immediate patronage of Kaiser Rudolph II., after whom Kepler named the…Brewer's: Turning the Tables
(See under Tables.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Turnip-GardenTurncoat A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Twelve Tables
The earliest code of Roman law, compiled by the Decemviri, and cut on twelve bronze tables or tablets (Livy, iii. 57; Diodorus, xii. 56.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Table Money
Money appropriated to the purposes of hospitality. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Table-TurningTable d'Hote A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Trending
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