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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

The moulds for these Rockets for the earth are not made like those for
the ayre, because that it is required that these should last longer,
and haue a more gentle motion: obserue therefore the following
directions for the making of them, which may serue for all occasions,
without any alteration for bigger or lesser. Let the diameter of their
hollownesse bee halfe an inch, let their hollownesse be five or six
inches long, let the rowler for to rowle the coffins on, bee the third
part of an inch thick, and let the rammer to charge it bee a thought
lesse, let the breech bee three quarters of an inch long, and let the
breech enter halfe an inch into the mould, then fill it with the
composition proper for it, obseruing those rules in the ramming it, as
you did in ramming rockets for the ayre; when you haue filled it within
an inch of the top of the mould, double down a quarter of the coffin,
beating it with three or foure strokes of the mallet; then with a
bodkin peirce it in two or three places, and then put in the quantity
of a pistoll charge of whole gunpowder, then double down the halfe of
the coffin, giuing it a gentle blow or two with the mallet, and with a
strong packthred choak the rest of the coffin, and what remaineth after
the coffin is choaked, cut it of, and it is made.

                        _How to make Crackers._

It is well known, that euery boy can make these, therefore I think it
will be but labour lost, to bestow time to describe their making: only
thus much, if you would make a Cracker to giue forty, fifty, a hundred,
or two hundred blowes, one after another, then binde so many Crackers
upon a stick, so that the end of the one may joyne to the mouth of the
other.

                         _How to make Trunkes._

These you may make of paste-board, paper, or wood, and of what bignesse
and length you please, and ram them full of the composition of Rockets
for the earth; if you would have them to change colour, then alter the
composition that is, put in two or three spoonfulls of the composition
of Rockets for the water, and ramme that in, then put in two or three
spoonfulls of the composition of Rockets for the ayre, and ramme that
in, then put in two or three spoonfulls of gunpowder dust, and ramme
that in, doe so till you have quite filled it, then tie a bottome of
leather upon it, and pierce it and prime it with stoupell; after the
same manner may you make lanternes and lights.

                     _How to make tumbling balls._

Make a ball of canvas, and fasten in it a double Rocket for the earth;
you may stuffe the rest of the ball with a slow composition of two
parts charcoale dust, and one part of gunpowder dust, mingled together,
and put divers petrards amongst it.

                       _How to make Saucissons._

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