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 73
43 A rich Cabinet, will thew on the Cieling the hour of the day, thé center of the Dial will be without the window Trench, and not perpendicular to the Glafs, This Diall ton ofa muft have no Stile,and it muft be made like the laf Horizontal Dial: You may drawthe circle,hour-lines, ltl biece and… … RECEP T LIL How to make a Candle- Dial, whereby you may know the hours of the night. O* Winters evening* fitting by the fire, mé thought there might be fome device fora Can- ' dic-Dial; At length it came \intomy head, Imadea | little
Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations
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