A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits ... being receipts and conceits of several natures ... As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals (1677)
White, John, -1671, Whitwood, William, bookseller, Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · London, Printed for William Whitwood at the sign of the Golden Bell in Duck-Lane near Smith-field, 1677. · leaf 204
the fuperficies of the water toucheth, ‘This done, take\out the irregular body, and mark again directly under the former, where the brim of the water now toucheth, for the diftanceofthefe 2 marks, multiplyed by the {quare of the Cubes fide , produceth the craffitude of that irregular body. .… … admit the fuper- : ficies of the water fallto D, then meafure «the dit fiance between C. and D: which fuppofe is 9 inches» which multiplyed in 400, the {quare of thie Cubes fide produceth 3606. and fo thany cubical. inches are contained inthe irregular body B, N 2
Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations
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