The mysteries of nature and art in four severall parts. The first of water-works. The second of fier-works. The third of drawing, colouring, limming, paynting, graving, and etching. The fourth of experiments (1654)
Bate, John · London : R. Bishop for A. Crook · leaf 44
r white Tin , to contain the oyl in, and whereon to put foure cotton lights, which may te made to fwim by palling the wyer wherein they are tan¬ ned thorow foure fmall pieces of cork. Now there muft be ’a velTell of BrafTe or Tin to be born over the lights with foure little pillars : you may make… … tween their joynts : make then a fmall hole in the bot¬ tom of the fillet; that is fodcred on the pipe directly over the hole of the faid pipe, j, alfo make fuch another hole in the bottom of the pipe that comes from the belley of the Cock fo that it may anfwer unto the aforefaid hole in the bottom…
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