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
Bate, John
Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800
For to make the first, you must make a ball of Canvas, about the
bignesse of a Foot-ball, or bigger if you please, and fasten in it a
double Rocket for the water: if you will, also you may stuffe the rest
of the ball with the composition that will burne under the water, and
cut holes in the sides, and therein fasten other bals, and petrards in
them: then cover the ball over with Tallow, Pitch, or painting, except
the place where the Rocket is primed, and it is done. It is represented
by the figure noted with A, and it will tumble up and downe in the
water.
[Illustration]
To make the second fire-ball, you must first make a ball of Canvas,
Pasteboard, or such like, and cut a wide hole in the top of it, and
place in it a channell of Tinne pierced in divers places: fill the
channell with the compositions of Rockets for the water; against every
hole therof, place a petrard: cover it with a cover, pitch it over, and
prime it, then ballast it with leade, or a stone, that the vent may
burne upwards, and it is done. It is represented by the figure B.
_How to make a Dolphin._
You must make the body of it of Pasteboard glued together, fill the
body with the composition of Rockets for the water, pierce it in the
back with divers little holes, wherein put Serpents, besmeare the body
all ouer with the following pap: Take gunpowder dust, foure ounces,
camphire, and sulphur, or brimstone in powder, of each one ounce, make
them into a soft pap with oyle of tiles, then binde unto it a large
Rocket for the water, which Rocket must be armed (as afore) that the
water may not hurt it: then ballast it with a wyre, hauing at each end
a piece of lead of weight sufficient, and it is done. Marke the figure.
[Illustration]
I might haue beene infinite in the describing of such like with Ships,
Towres, Castles, Piramides. But considering that it would but increase
the price of the booke, and not better your understanding: since all
consist of the former workes, which are so plainely described, as that
the most ignorant may easily conceiue thereof, and (if any whit
ingenious) thence contriue others, of what fashion they list.
_FINIS._
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THE
THIRD BOOKE
Of Drawing, Limming, Colouring,
Painting, and Graving.
By _I. B._
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_LONDON._
Printed by THOMAS HARPER, for RALPH MAB,
1634.
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THE THIRD BOOKE
of Drawing, Painting, Limming,
Graving.
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