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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 diameter of hollownesse of the mould for Rockets that swim on the
water, must be one inch, and eight inches long: let the breech enter
into the body of the Rocket one inch, and it must have no broach at all
in it. Let the diameter of the thicknesse of the rowler bee three
quarters of an inch, the rammer must be a thought lesser; then ram it
full of the composition of Rockets for the water; joyne to the upper
end of it a Saucisson: then couer it all over with melted pitch, rosin,
wax, or tallow, to the end that the water may not spoyle the coffins;
and to make it float along the water, binde a rod about two foot long,
as you did unto the rockets for the ayre: now if you would have the
rocket to change his actions, (that is, to swim one while above the
water, and one while under the water) then put into it in the filling,
one spoonfull of composition, and ram that in; then one spoonfull of
whole powder, and ram that in; and then another of composition, and
after that another of whole gunpowder, so do untill you have filled it
quite. If you would have it change colour, then shift the composition
divers times, (that is, put in one spoonfull of the composition of
rockets for the water, then another spoonfull of the composition of
rockets for the ayre, or rochpeter and gunpowder mixed) untill you have
filled it.

             _How to make a Rocket that shall burne a good
                   while in the water, and then mount
                           up into the ayre._

First you shall make a rocket for the water, and binde unto the lower
end a stick about two foot and a halfe long, having a large hole in the
end thereof: then tie unto it (but loosly, so that it may easily slip
out) a rocket for the ayre, and let the stouple that primeth for the
rocket for the ayre, enter into the breech of the water rocket, then
let the end of the rod of the rocket for the ayre enter into the hole
of the rod of the rocket for the water: besmeare then both the rockets
with tallow, grease, or wax, or any oyle colour that the water may not
spoyle the coffins of the rockets; then hang a stone at the bottom of
the stick that hath the hole in it, to make it sink down into the
water; then fire the water rocket, and cast them into the water; the
fired rocket will burne in the water, and being consumed, will giue
fire unto the other rocket, which being loosly tyed, will slip the
bond, and mount up into the ayre. This is represented by the figure G,
G. The floating rocket mentioned before, is expressed by the figure
noted I, K.

[Illustration]

         _The description and making of two sorts of fire bals
                            for the water._

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