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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 of the powder of tile sheard, two pound, unflakt lyme, foure
pound, oyle of Lynseed, a sufficient quantity to temper the whole
mixure; this is marvellous strong.

                        _To make a thinne glew._

Take _gluten piscis_, beate the same strongly on an Anvill, till it be
thin; after lay it to soke in water, untill it be come very soft and
tender: then worke it like paste, to make small rowles thereof, which
draw out very thinne, and when you will worke with it, put some of it
into an earthen pot, with a little water, over the embers, and skim the
same very cleane, and let it seeth a little while, then worke with the
same: keeping it still over the fire. With this glew you may fasten
peeces of glasse together.

               _To make Iron have the colour of Brasse._

First, polish it well, rub it after with _aqua fortis_, wherein the
filings of brasse are dissolved: the like may bee done with Roman
vitrioll dissolved in vineger and faire water, of each a like quantity.

                  _To make wood or bone red for ever._

Take the powder of Brazill, mingle it well with milke, but so, that it
be very red, and put therein, either wood or bone, letting it lye in
eight dayes, and it will looke red for ever.

      _How with one Candle to make as great a light, as otherwise
                 of two or three of the same bignesse._

Cause a round and double glasse to be made, of a large size, and in
fashion like a globe, but with a great round hole in the top, and in
the concave part of the uppermost glasse, place a candle in a loose
socket, and at the same hole or pipe which must be made at the side
thereof, fill the same with spirit of wine, or some other cleere
distilled water that will not putrifie, and this one candle will give a
great and wonderfull light, somewhat resembling the sunne beames.

                     _A Cement for broken Glasses._

Beate the whitest Fish glew with a hammer, till it begin to waxe
cleere, then cut the same into very small pieces, suffering the same to
dissolve on a gentle fire, in a leaded pan, with a few drops of _aqua
vitæ_, then let some other that standeth by, hold both the pieces that
are to bee cemented, over a chafingdish of coles, till they be warme:
and during their heat, lay on the dissolved glew with a fine pensill;
then binde the glasse with wyre or threed, and let it rest till it be
cold.

          _An admirable secret of representing the very forme
      of Plants, by their ashes, philosophically prepared, spoken
                of by _Quertitanus_ and _Angelus salæ_._

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