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 63
you will make Green wax, inftead of Vermil- lion take the like quantity of Verdigreafe. —. RECEIPT xXLIv. A ‘pretty way bow 20 caft off Flowers in wax, of at any of th ivers colours. Aufe a Stick to be turned round at one end, Cfomewhat Taperwife ) like the fathion of a Poking ftick, leffer, or… … and then dip the fick into the Wax » and fuddainly pullit, oue again,dipping it intothe water again to cool it and then you may take off your flower and lay
Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations
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