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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 Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and InventionBate, John

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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 Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention

Name: 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 Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention
Author: Bate, John

Bate, John

Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800

Let A, B, C, D, be a great vessell, having a partition in the middle:
let there bee a large tunnell at the top of it, E, F, whose neck must
go into the bottom almost of the lower vessell: let there be a hollow
pipe also coming out of the partition, and almost touch the top of the
upper vessell. In the top of the upper vessell let there bee another
pipe, reaching from the bottom of the upper vessell, and extending it
selfe out of the vessell a good way: let the top of it hang ouer the
tunnell. In the top of the upper vessell let there be a hole besides,
to be stopped with cork, or otherwise: when you will use it, open the
cork-hole, and fill the upper vessel with water: then stop it close
againe, and poure water into the tunnell, and you shall see that the
water in the upper vessell will run out of the pipe into the tunnell
againe and so will continue running untill all the water in the upper
vessell be run out. The reason thereof is this; the water in the
tunnell pressing the ayre in the lower vessell, maketh it ascend the
pipe in the partition, and presse the water in the upper vessell, which
having no other way but the pipe, it runneth out thereat.

[Illustration]

        _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._

Let A, B, C, D, bee a cestern placed upon a curious frame for the
purpose, let the bottom of this frame be made likewise in the form of a
cestern: Through the pillers of this frame let there passe hollow pipes
from the bottom of the upper cestern, and descend to the bottom of the
lower cestern, and then run all to the middle thereof, and joyne in
one, and turne up into the hollow body of a beast, bird, fish, or what
your fancy most affecteth: let the hole of the image whereat the water
must break out, be very small, for so it will run the longer. Fill the
upper cestern with water, and by reason of the weight thereof it will
passe through the pipes, and spin out of the hole of the image.

               _Experiments of forcing water by Engins._

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