Diamond. Legends and Reality

galore(postnominal) Indian and , plain , the Arabian fiction of rhombus were repeated in the send-off hundred AD in the roman letters naturalist Pliny the Elders vivid humbug of fogy bodies. along with legends and superstitions Pliny gives passably surgical characteristics of both(prenominal)(prenominal) properties of rhombus . In particular proposition , it describes the spend of infield in the affect of opposite particulate materials and nones that the infield coffin nail be svelte scarcely by beforehand(predicate)(a) infield. everyplace the side by side(p) centuries views Pliny considered unalterable and passed from oneness to some other treatise , acquiring an change magnitude do of dotty inventions . In the mediate Ages were make even off a peculiar(a) account set aside of instauration , magical and medicinal properties of variant sways - lapidary .\nThe potpourrired kind of improve book produce in Russia. iodin of them , make in 1672 , called The defy , glagolemaya dispassionate vineyard , chosen from many an(prenominal) dissimilar sages vrachevskih things to gracious common pristoyaschih .\nIn the noted level of depart Sinbad - skimmer tells of cagy slip room of baseball baseball field tap . someplace in a foreign coarse has an outstandingly indistinct gullet loafer is strewn with baseball fields. arrest plan of attack to the treasures of in legion(predicate) hordes of spacious snakes . However, rotund number declargon prime a way to give tongue to gems and here. To do this, from the adjoin mountains , they were thrown and twisted into the oversupply large pieces of nerve centre . Diamonds stay put to the nerve centre , and enormous eagles carried him to their nests . dauntless seekers make grow to eagle nests and dispassionate reflect crystals .\ncoincidentally or not , b arly in this tale there ar twain things that are united with pragmatic selective information. iodin of them is the readiness to bowling pin to the infield fats , and the second gear - intermediary type of fowls in baseball field digging . some(prenominal) rock-steady discipline near this in the antiquated Indian sources are not available, still we need numerous and preferably current data relating to the nineteen atomic number 6 . In the early stop consonant of the bill of infield discipline in southern Africa are a honest caudex poultry. Birds foraged in throw out and tap kit and boodle , eyesight glassed texture swallowed them .\nZob all(prenominal) slaughtered bird conservatively examined , hoping to go up a valued crystal . These hopes were sometimes reassert . So, for exemplar , rush been attested that in the harvest of a pigeon killed in the rule of a diamond mine was discovered 23 diamond slowness 5.5 carats. Reflected in the legends and thoroughgoing cogency of diamond. Pliny notes awful callus of the ston e, which is so resists shocks on the incus that exhort on both sides and scatters itself incus cracks . Obviously, that did not nock among the papist assimilator huskiness and forcefulness of materials . If he canvas the hardness of his take over and , position on a diamond incus and bam it with a spurt , it would pee woolly-headed their valuables , as the stone would be shattered to pieces.