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Lamp

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A vessel that holds a flame for seeing. Temples, streets, and later moth-and-flame morals have used it without one doctrine of light.

Hellenic religion

  • Lamp appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes lamps among sanctuary lighting and dedications. A named lamp in that periegesis, not candle as the already-filed Pausanias light and not a modern bulb dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Buddhist traditions

  • Lamp appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names lamps among offerings that illuminate Buddha-lands and honor the teaching. A named lamp in that sūtra, not a fire-contains dump alone and not the Atlas Lamp world-place.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Roman religion

  • Lamp appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats lamps among oil vessels and lighting craft of Roman practice. A named lamp in that encyclopedia, not lantern as the enclosed light and not torch as the Demeter hymn brand already walked.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Egyptian religion

  • Lamp appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names the festival of lamps at Sais, when lamps burn all night around houses. A named lamp in that traveler’s Egypt, not a torch alone and not the Pausanias Hellenic lamp seat.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Mesopotamian tradition

  • Lamp appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    The Epic of Gilgamesh seats fixed oil-lights among house and temple neighborhoods of Uruk beside portable torches on the road. A named lamp in that epic’s lighting speech, not torch as the carried brand alone and not lantern as a shielded later type.

    from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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Northwest Coast tradition

European folklore

  • Magic lantern is used in Lamp.

    Brewster’s Treatise seats the magic lantern among projection instruments that concentrate lamp light through lenses onto painted transparent sliders. A named magic-lantern in that optical-instrument speech, not a kaleidoscope and not a camera obscura.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Cannel coal is historically related to Lamp.

    Ure’s Dictionary seats cannel coal among the bituminous fuels heated in retorts for gas-light, listed with resin, oil, fats, and tar as gas-yielding bodies. A named cannel-coal in that gas-light fuel speech, not anthracite stone coal, not coke, and not lignite.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Coal gas is historically related to Lamp.

    Ure’s Dictionary seats GAS-LIGHT as carburetted air produced by heating bituminous pit-coal in close vessels — Murdoch’s coal gas for artificial illumination. A named coal-gas in that illuminating-gas speech, not fire-damp mine air alone, not coal-tar, and not coal-dust.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Davy lamp is historically related to Lamp.

    Ure’s Dictionary seats the SAFETY LAMP among colliery lamps, including Davy’s wire-gauze safety lamp and later Upton and Roberts modifications against fire-damp. A named davy-lamp in that mine safety-lamp speech, not a magic lantern, and not a bare workshop lamp dump.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Vedic tradition

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