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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

The making of fire wheeles consisteth onely in the placing of Rockets,
with the mouth of one towards the tayle of another, round about
certaine moveable wheels; wherefore I thinke it sufficient only to
describe the diversity of their fashions which follow.

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                     _How to make flying Dragons._

The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose; it must be made
eyther of dry and light wood, or crooked-lane plates, or of thin
whalebones covered with Muscovie glasse, and painted over. In the body
thereof, there must bee a voyde cane to passe the rope through; unto
the bottome of this cane must bee bound one or two large Rockets,
according as the bignesse and weight of the Dragon shall require; the
body must bee filled with divers petrars, that may consume it, and a
sparkling receipt must be so disposed upon it, that being fired, it may
burne both at the mouth and at the tayle thereof; then hang the wings
on in such wise, that they may shake as the Dragon runnes along the
line; you may dispose divers small serpents in the wings; marke the
figure.

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                       _How to make fire Drakes._

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You must take a peece of linnen cloth of a yard or more in length; it
must bee cut after the forme of a pane of glasse; fasten two light
stickes crosse the same, to make it stand at breadth; then smeare it
over with linseed oyle, and liquid varnish tempered together, or else
wet it with oyle of peter, and unto the longest corner fasten a match
prepared with saltpeter water (as I have taught before) upon which you
may fasten divers crackers, or Saucissons; betwixt every of which,
binde a knot of paper shavings, which will make it flie the better;
within a quarter of a yard of the cloth, let there bee bound a peece of
prepared stoupell, the one end whereof, let touch the cloth, and the
other enter into the end of a Saucisson: then tie a small rope of
length sufficient to rayse it unto what height you shall desire, and to
guide it withall: then fire the match, and rayse it against the winde
in an open field; and as the match burneth, it will fire the crackers,
and saucissons, which will give divers blowes in the ayre; and when the
fire is once come unto the stoupell, that will fire the cloth, which
will shew very strangely and fearefully.

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             _How to make Balloones, also the morter Peece
                          to discharge them._

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