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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 — John Shaqi

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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

A Weather-glasse is a structure of, at the least, two glasses,
sometimes of three, foure, or more, as occasion serueth, inclosing a
quantity of water, and a portion of ayre proportionable, by whose
condensation or rarifaction the included water is subject unto a
continuall motion, either upward or downward; by which motion of the
water is commonly foreshewn the state, change, and alteration of the
weather. For I speak no more than what mine experience hath made me
bold to affirme; you may (the time of the yeere, and the following
obseruations understandingly considered) bee able certainly to foretell
the alteration or uncertainty of the weather a good many houres before
it come to passe.

                 _Of the severall sorts and fashions of
                           Weather-glasses._

There are diuers seuerall fashions of Weather-glasses, but principally
two.

1 The Circular glasse.

2 The Perpendicular glasse: The Perpendiculars are either single,
double, or treble.

The single Perpendiculars are of two sorts, either fixt or moueable.

The fixt are of contrary qualities; either such whose included water
doth moue upward with cold, and downward with heat, or else upward with
heat, and downward with cold.

In the double and treble Perpendiculars, as the water ascendeth in one,
it descendeth as much or more in the other.

In the moueable Perpendicular the glasse being artificially hanged,
moueth up and down with the water.

                        _How to make the water._

I must confesse, that any water that is not subiect unto putrifaction,
or freezing, would serue the turne, but Art hath taught to make such a
water as may bee both an ornament to the work, and also delectable to
the eye.

Take two ounces of vardigrease in powder, and infuse it so long in a
pint of white wine vineger, untill it hath a very green colour, then
poure out the vineger gently from the vardigrease: take also a pint and
a halfe of purifide May-dew, and put therein 6 ounces of Roman vitreoll
in grosse powder, let it stand till the vitreoll bee throughly
dissolved; then mix this with the former water, and strain them through
a cap paper, and put it into a cleane glasse well stopped, and its
ready for use.

                               _Another._

Take a gallon of rayn water that hath setled, infuse therein a day and
a night 4 pound of quick lyme; stir it about with a cleane stick
oftentimes in the day; in the morning poure the cleere water off from
the lyme, into a brasse pan, and adde thereto 3 pound of sal armoniack;
let it stand fiue or six houres, afterwards stir it about untill it be
of a perfect blew colour, then straine it through a browne paper rowled
within a tunnell, and reserue it for your use. This water is not so
good for use as the former.

                   _How to make the Circular glasse._

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