The mysteryes of nature and art : conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes, the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful (1634)
Bate, John · Imprinted at London : For Ralph Mab and are to be sold by Iohn Iackson and Francis Church at the Kings armes in Cheapeside · leaf 29
ctlcl with water.- then ftop itclofc againe, and pourewater into the tunnell, and you fhall fee that the water inthe upper veffell will run out of the pipe into the tunnellagaine.and fo will continue running until! all the waterin the upper vcffell be run out. The reafon thereof is this;the water… … ne The forcing of water hyprejfure^thai U the naturaH courfe of ^ater in regard of its heaamejfe and thinneffe, artificially contriyedp break out of what image you pleafe, LEt A,B, G, D, bee a ccftcrn placed upon a curiousframe for the purpofe, let the bottom of this frame bemade likcwife in the…
![An illustration from Io. Bap. Portae Neopolitani de distillatione lib. IX : quibus certa methodo, multipliciq[ue] artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuius libet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfectè docetur (1608)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-iobapportaeneopo00port-33-21.webp)
