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 48
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Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations
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