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 42
with variety of Inventions. … | almoft full of water,chen put the Ciftern on the bot- tom board, and holding the frame floping put the fhank of the Glafs ( through the hole at the head ) into the Ciftern, and then fet it upright. Now you muft know at what degree to fet your water ,accord- - ing to the feafonofthe year: for ifit…
Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations
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