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Author: Bate, John.
Title: The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B.
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Print source: The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B.
Bate, John.
Imprinted at London: [By Thomas Harper] for Ralph Mab and are to be sold by Iohn Iackson and Francis Church at the Kings armes in Cheapeside, 1634.
Subject terms:
Hydraulic machinery -- Early works to 1800.
Fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
Art -- Technique -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE READER.
To my friend the Authour, upon his My∣steries of Nature and Art.
Of Water-works.
The order of the things contayned in the first booke.
Of VVater-workes.
To draw water by a Crane.
Another.
How to make a conceited pot, which being filled with water, will of it selfe run all out; but not being filled will not run out.
How to dispose 2 vessels upon one foot, that wine may runne out of the one, as you shall put water into the other.
How to dispose 2 vessels upon one foot, the one being empty, and the other almost full of wine, and yet shall not runne out of the vessell, unlesse you fill the empty vessell with water, and then the one shall run pure wine, the other fayre water.
To make that the water conteined in one vessell, shal ascend into another vessell placed above it.
To make a cup or vessell that so oft as you take the liquor out of it, so oft it shall fill it selfe, but never runne over.
Of drawing water by Engines.
How to harden Leather, so as the same shall last much longer in succurs of Pumps, then it doth unprepared.
The making of a Pumpe to draw water.
The making of an Engin, whereby you may draw wa∣ter out of a deepe Well, or mount any River water, to be conveyed to any place within three or foure miles of the same. Also it is used in great ships which I have seene.
To make an Engin, which being placed in water will cast the same with violence on high.
Experiments of forcing water by ayer compressed.
Another.
The forcing of water by pressure, that is the naturall course of water in regard of its heavinesse and thinnesse, artificially contrived to break out of what image you please.
Experiments of forcing water by Engins.
Another manner of forcing water, whereby the wa∣ter of any spring may be forced unto the top of a hill.
The description of an Engin to force water up to a high place: very usefull for to quench fire amongst buildings.
Experiments of producing sounds by ayer and water.
Another
How to make that a bird sitting on a basis, shall make a noise, and drink, out of a cup of wa∣ter, being held to the mouth of it.
A device whereby severall voyces of birds cherping may be heard.
A device whereby the figure of a man standing on a basis shall be made to sound a trumpet.
Hercules shooting at a Dragon, who as soone as he hath shot, hisseth at him.
Experiments of producing sounds by evapora∣tion of water by ayer.
To make two images sacrificing, and a Dragon hissing.
Experiments of producing sounds by Engins.
Experiments of motions by rarifying water with fire.
Experiments of motions by rarifying ayre by fire.
Another way.
What the Weather-glasse is.
Of the severall sorts and fashions of Weather-glasses.
How to make the water.
Another.
How to make the Circular glasse.
How to make the single perpendicular glasse, whose water ascendeth with cold, and descendeth with heat.
The powder for the rock.
To make the single perpendicular glasse, ascending with heat, and descending with cold.
How to make the double perpendicular glasse.
How to make the moveable perpen∣dicular glasse.
Of the use of all the severall sorts of Weather-glasses.
A Water-clock, or a Glasse shewing the houre of the day.
Another fashioned one.
Another artificiall Water-clock, which may bee set conveniently in a double Weather-glasse.
A wheele which being turned about, it casteth water out at the spindle.
A water-presser, or the mounting of water by compression.
How to compose a great or little peece of Water-worke.
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To the Reader.
Of Fire-workes.
Certayne Praecognita or Principles, wherein are con∣tayned the causes and reasons of that which is taught in this Booke.
Instructions for chusing your ingredients.
A device to try the strength of divers sorts of Gunpowder.
Of the divers compositions of fire workes.
Compositions for Rockets of all sizes, according un∣to the prescription of the noted Professors, as Mr Malthus, Mr Norton, and the French Authour, Des recrea∣tiones Mathematiques.
A Composition for Rockets of two and three ounces.
A Composition for Rockets of foure ounces.
A Composition for Rockets of fowre ounces.
A Composition for all middle sized Rockets.
A Composition for Rockets of five or six ounces.
A Composition for Rockets of ten or twelve ounces.
A Composition for Rockets of one pound, or two.
A Composition for Rockets of eight, nine and tenne pounds.
The Composition for middle sized Rockets may serve for Serpents, and for rayning fire, or else the re∣ceipt for Rockets on the ground, which followeth heereafter.
Another receipt for Starres.
Another.
Another receipt for Starres, whereof you may make fiends and divers apparitions according unto your fancie.
Compositions for receipts of fireworkes, that operate upon the earth.
Compositions for fireworkes that burne upon, or in the water.
A Receipt of a composition that will burne, and feed upon the water.
A Receipt of a composition that will burne under water.
A Receipt of a Composition that will kindle with the water.
Another.
How to make stouple, or prepare cotten-week to prime your fire-works with.
How to know the true time, that any quantity of fi∣red Gun-match that shall doe an exployt at a time desired.
A Water called Aqua Ardens.
How to make Serpents.
How to make rayning fire.
How to make starres.
How to make Petards.
How to make compounded Rockets.
How to make fiends, or fearefull apparitions.
How to make fire Boxes.
How to make Swevels.
How to make Gironells, or fire wheeles.
How to make flying Dragons.
How to make fire Drakes.
How to make Balloones, also the morter Peece to discharge them.
Of Fire-works for the earth.
How to make Crackers.
How to make Trunkes.
How to make tumbling balls.
How to make Saucissons.
How to make the flying Saucisson to be delivered out of the morter peece.
How to make a fire sword.
The description and making of three sorts of Fire-lances.
The description and making of two sorts of Fire-clubs.
How to make a Fire-target.
Of Fire-works for the water.
How to make a Rocket that shall burne a good while in the water, and then mount up into the ayre.
The description and making of two sorts of fire bals for the water.
How to make a Dolphin.
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THE THIRD BOOKE of Drawing, Painting, Limming, Graving.
part
How to take the perfect draught of any printed, or painted Picture.
Another way.
Another way very pretty and easie to be performed.
Another way much like the former.
An easie way to lessen any picture: that is, to draw a picture from another, in a lesser compasse.
A verie easie way, to describe a Towne, or Castle: being within the full sight thereof.
How to make a Deske: by meanes whereof you may draw, and that most exactly with great facilitie any printed picture, or sollid Image.
An easie way to take the naturall, and lively shape of the leafe of any hearbe or tree, which thing passeth the Art of man to imitate with Pen or Pensill.
I thought fitting to give you a word or two, where∣fore I have not made the crosse pricked lines to passe through the figures.
Of Painting.
To make Gum water to temper your Colours with.
A Purple colour.
A Crane Colour.
Browne Colour.
Hayre Colour.
A Blew.
An Emerauld Colour.
A Motlie greene.
A blacke Colour.
A marble or ashe colour.
A russet or sad Browne.
A browne Blew.
A Brasse Colour.
A gold yellow for Armes.
Azure.
A purple or violet Colour.
Sanguine or Blood-colour.
Orange-tawny.
A Lyon-tawny.
A Carnation, or Flesh-colour.
A Peach Colour.
A Skie Colour.
A Blood red.
A Lincoln-greene.
A Poppin-jay greene.
A good yellow.
A sable or blacke.
A velvet-blacke.
To write gold with Pen or Pensil.
To make Azure, or bise sadder.
Red Colour.
Another Red.
Another Red.
A greene Colour.
To make good Inke.
To seethe Brasill.
Aurum Musicum.
Argentum Musicum.
To write a gold colour.
To write with gold out of a Pensil.
To temper Azure of Bise.
To temper Turnsole.
To make colouring, called Vernix: to varnish gold, silver, or any other colour on vellem, paper, timber, stone, &c.
To make a double size to lay gold or silver on an em∣bossed ground.
Of painting in Oyle.
Of Graving.
Of Gravers.
How to make Gravers.
How to smooth and pollish Copper Plates.
How to prepare your Coales.
Of Etching.
Ared ground for Etching.
A white ground.
A blacke ground.
Another way how to engrave with water.
How to engrave on a flint stone.
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To the Reader.
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How to make a light burne under the water, being a very pretty conceypt to take fish.
How to make an image hang in the middle of a glasse.
How to make five or six dice of the ordinary big∣nesse of dice, such as you may game withall, and such as would be taken by their lookes to bee ordinary dice, and yet all of them to weigh not above one grain.
To lay gold on any thing.
To lay gold on glasse.
To make yron as soft as lead.
To colour tin, or copper, &c. of a golden colour.
To gild iron with a water.
To soder on iron.
To gild on iron or steele.
A varnish like gold, for tin, silver, or copper.
To lay Gold on Iron, or other mettall.
To make Ice that will melt in fire, but not dissolve in Water.
A cement as hard as stone.
To make Paper waved like unto marble.
To make Copper or Brasse have the colour of silver.
How to make glew to hold things together as fast as stone.
To make a thinne glew.
To make Iron have the colour of Brasse.
To make wood or bone red for ever.
How with one Candle to make as great a light, as o∣therwise of two or three of tbe same bignesse.
A Cement for broken Glasses.
An admirable secret of representing the very forme of Plants, by their ashes, phiosophically prepared, spo∣ken of by Quertitanus and Angelus salae.
A device to bend glasse Canes, or make any small worke in Glasse.
An excelleut Water for any Morphue, or scurvi∣nesse in the Face.
How to soften Iron.
A good Cement for broken glasses.
Another.
How to cause that the same quantitie both of pow∣der and shot discharged out of the same peece shall carry closer, or more scattering.
A Baite to catch Fish with.
How to write without inke that it may not be seene, unlesse the paper be wet with water.
How to make white letters in a blacke Feild.
How to sodder upon Silver, Brasse, or Iron.
Hard Soder is thus made.
Soft Soder is thus made.
How to gild Silver, or Brasse, with water-gold.
How to take the smoake of Tobacco through a glasse of water.
To colour Ivory or any other bones, of an excellent greene colour.
How to make birds drunke, so that you may take them with your hands.
A way to catch Crowes.
How to take Crowes or Pigeons.
Another.
Another way to take Birds.
How to make Brasse white for ever.
How to make Marble.
How to whiten copper.
To make Saltpeter.
How to make Corall.
How to make Pearles of Chalk.
An approved and excellent plaster for ach in the raines of the back, or in any other part whatsoever.
An excellent oyntment for the Shingles, Morphew, Tetters, and Ringwormes.
An excellent Balme, or water for grievous sore eyes, which commeth either of outward accident, or of any inward cause.
A speedy way to asswage the paine of any scald, or burne, though never so great, and to take the fire out of it.
An approved oyle for to heale any burne or scald.
An oyntment, very excellent and often proued, for the same.
Another oyntment for a burne.
An excellent oyntment for a green wound.
A Balsam of wonderfull efficacy.
An excellent healing Water, which will drie up any old sore, or heale any greene wound.
A Water for a Fistula
A Water for the Toothache.
Another Water approved for the same.
To make a Water for the eyes.
For Deafenesse.
An excellent Electuary for the Cough, Cold, or against Flegme.
A very excellent salve to heale, well proved, for any old sore, or new wound.
A soveraigne Water to heale a greene wound: and to stanch bloud.
For the Byting of a mad Dogge.
An Oyle for any Ach.
To stanch the bleeding of a cut.
For an ague, to bee layd to the wrists.
Almond milke for the cough of the lungs.
For a scald head.
For to heale a red face that hath many pimples. Proved.
To wash the Face, if it be given to heat.
To make Vsquebach.
To make Almond Butter.
To make Ielly for one that is in a Consumption, or troubled with a loosenesse.
To stay the flux.
To make green Ink.
To make blew Ink.
For an Ague.
A water good against the plangs, or to be given after a surfet.
To avoyd urine that is stopped with the stone.
For the stone and strangury.
For scald heads.
To cure an old Vlcer.
A Water to cleanse, and mundifie old rotten sores and ulcers.
The Medicine of medicines proved for the Stone.
A precious water for the sight.
For the Fluxe to stay it.
A good Powder for the Gout.
A speciall Medicine for the Collicke.
To take away rednesse of burning of the Eyes.
For the Rheume in the Eyes.
The Oyntment for the same.
For Deafenesse.
For the cough of the lungs.
A present remedie for all manner aches, and bruises in the Bones.
For burning, or scalding.
For Burstnesse of old, or young.
A Salve for all sores.
For Bleeding.
To procure sleepe.
For the Cough.
A Gargill for the vula.
For Deafnesse very excellent good.