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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

There are two kindes of Sodder, to wit, hard Sodder, and soft Sodder.
The soft Sodder runneth sooner then the hard: wherefore if a thing be
to be sodered in two places, which cannot at one time well be
performed, then the first must be sodered with hard soder, and the
second with soft: for if the first be done with soft, it will unsoder
againe before the other be sodered. Note, that if you would not have
your soder to runne over any one part of the peece to be sodered, you
must rub over that part with chalke that you would not have it runne
upon.

Note likewise that your soder must be beaten thinne, and then laid over
the place to be sodered, which must be first fitted together, and bound
with wyer as occasion shall require. Then take Burras, powder it, and
temper it with water like pap, and lay it upon the soder, and let it
drie upon it by the fire: Afterwards cover it with quicke coals, and
blow them up, and you shall see your soder run immediately: then
presently take it out of the fire, and it is done.

                       _Hard Soder is thus made._

Take a quarter of an ounce of silver, and a three penie weight of
copper, melt them together, and it is done.

                       _Soft Soder is thus made._

Take a quarter of an ounce of silver, and a three penie weight of
brasse, melt them together, and it is done.

           _How to gild Silver, or Brasse, with water-gold._

First take about ℥. ii. of quicke silver, put it into a little melting
pot, and set it over the fire, and when it beginneth to smoke, put into
it an angel of fine gold: then take it off presently for the gold will
presently be dissolved in the quicke silver, which if it be too thinne,
you may through a peece of fustian straine a part of the quicke-silver
from it. Note likewise that your silver, or brasse, before you go about
to gild it, must be boyled in argol, and beare, or water, and
afterwards scratcht with a wyer brush: then rub the gold, and
quicke-silver upon it, and it will cleave unto it, then put your siluer
or brasse upon quicke coales untill it begin to smoke: then take it
from the fire, and scratch it with your wyer brush: Do this so often
till you have rubd the quicke-silver as cleane off as you can, then
shall you perceive the gold to appeare of a faint yellow colour, which
you may make to shew faire with sal armoniacke, bole armoniacke, and
vardigrece ground together, and tempered with water.

            _How to take smoake of Tobacco through a glasse
                               of water._

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