A French translation of the Arabian Nights (Book 2 Chapter 10) - Possibly the translation by Antoine Galland published in 1704, which was the first European version of the tales.It was published in six volumes 1776-1789. A book by Gibbon, the second volume (Book 2 Chapter 3) - Probably The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon's best known work.A book of Oriental tales about dragons, translated and annotated by Sir Edward Howe.Laurence finds this book to be somewhat heavy going. A book by (Pierre-Simon) Laplace, possibly one of the first four volumes of the Mécanique céleste> published 1799-1805.This becomes Temeraire's favourite book, almost sort of a bedtime story for him. Laurence was prepared to bring his Latin up to snuff to read the book to Temeraire in the original, but he was probably just as happy to find a translation. The translation may have been the one done by Andrew Motte in 1729. An English translation of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematicai> by Isaac Newton, 1687.The Naval Trident by Duncan (Book 1 Chapter 4) - Possibly The British Trident, or, Register of Naval Actions by Archibald Duncan, first published in 1804?.A book on mineralogy, which speaks about gemstones and their mining (Book 1, Chapter 3).its body was a pure, untinted black from nose to tail, and a sigh of wonder ran throughout the crew as it unfurled its large, six-spined wings like a lady’s fan, the bottom edge dappled with oval markings in grey and dark glowing blue.
His egg "shown with the full luster of marble". Qian, believing that the egg that had to cross the world would need good fortune, decided to send the older (Xiang's) lying to everyone by telling that it was the other egg (Chuan's) the one she had delivered first. The Chinese sent the 2nd egg as a gift to an Emperor on the other side of the world from them, to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as a way to prevent the dragon being used to contend the Chinese throne.
The dragon hatched from an egg delivered by Qian was destined to be the companion of the Crown Prince of China, so when twin eggs were delivered it became awkward because only an Emperor and his heir can be a Celestial Dragon's companion. Temeraire's egg was from Lung Tien Qian and the Imperial Lung Qin Gao and was the older twin of Lung Tien Chuan. Subsequently, the HMS Reliant, captained by William Laurence at the time, captured the Amitie three weeks from Madeira with a full wind. He was originally meant to be Napoleon Bonaparte's dragon, but the ship that brought him out of China, the Amitie, ran into a string of bad luck. Temeraire, a Celestial dragon known as Lung Tien Xiang in China, is one of the main characters of Temeraire (series).
Temeraire had been hatched in the year five
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