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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

Take an ounce of Brasill, twelve ounces of beere, wine, or vinegar, put
it in a new pot, let it stand a night; and in the morning set it on the
fire, and let it seethe till halfe be consumed: then put into it two
peny worth of allum beaten together, and as much beaten gum-Arabicke:
stirre them well together, and let them seethe againe; if you desire to
have it somewhat darke, then scrape a little chalke into it when it
seetheth: let it not seethe over the pot: when it is cold straine it
through a cloth, and put it into a glass well stopt.

                            _Aurum Musicum._

Take one ounce of Salarmoniack, one ounce of quicksilver of
counterfein, halfe an ounce of brimstone, bruise the brimstone, and set
it on the fire, but let it not be over hot (lest it burne) then take
the Salarmoniacke, and the quicksilver being in powder: mixe them well
together, then mingle with them the brimstone: stirre them well, and
quickly with a sticke till the brimstone become hard, then let it
coole, grinde it on a stone, and put it in a glasse well stopt with
waxe, and set it in a pan with ashes; make a fire under it, and let it
stand halfe a day in that manner (but not over hot) till a yellow smoke
riseth on it, and when the yellow smoke is gone it is prepared.

                          _Argentum Musicum._

Take an ounce of Tynne, melt it, and put thereto one ounce of tartar,
and one ounce of quicksilver, stirre them well till they be cold: then
beat all in a morter, and grinde it on a stone; temper it with
gumme-water, and write therewith, and afterward polish it.

                       _To write a gold colour._

Take a new hennes egge, make a hole at one end, and let the substance
out, then take the yolke without the white, and foure times as much in
quantitie of quicksilver; grinde them well together, and put them into
the shell; stop the hole thereof with chalke, and the white of an egge,
then lay it under an henne that sitteth with sixe more, let her sit on
it three weeks, then breake it up, and write with it.

                 _To write with gold out of a Pensil._

Take honey, and salt a like quantitie, grinde them well, and put to
them a leafe of gold, with a little white of an egge; put it into a
mussell shell, and let it purifie; then temper it with gumme-water, and
write with it, pollish it.

Or else grinde a leafe of silver, or gold, very small with gumme-water,
and wash it in a mussell shell as aforesaid.

                       _To temper Azure or Bise._

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