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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 ℥ vj. of quicke Lime, put it into a pot, and poure upon it, one
pinte of good wine: let it stand fiue or sixe dayes, stirring it once
or twice a day: then poure off the cleare, and therewith temper flint
stones calcined, and made into fine powder, then colour it, and make of
it what you please, and let them dry.

                        _How to whiten copper._

Take a thin plate of copper, heat it red-hot divers times, and
extinguish it in common oyl of tartar, and it will be white.

                          _To make Saltpeter._

Take quick lyme, and poure warm water upon it, and let it stand six
dayes, stirring it once or twice a day: take the cleare of this, and
set it in the Sunne untill it bee wasted, and the Saltpeter will
remaine in the bottom.

                         _How to make Corall._

Take of red Lead ground, ℥. I. vermilion finely ground, ℥ ss.
unquenched lyme, and powder of calcined flints, of each ℥ vj. these
powders must bee tempered with a _Lixivium_ that is made with quick
lyme and wine: adde unto the whole a little salt; then make thereof
what you list; then boyle them in linseed oyle.

                    _How to make Pearles of Chalk._

Take some Chalk, and put it into the fire; there let it lie untill it
break: temper it then with the whites of _egs_. Then make of it divers
fashions of Pearles, both great and small: wet them being dried, and
cover them with leafe gold, and they are done.

           _An approved and excellent plaster for ach in the
                raines of the back, or in any other part
                              whatsoever._

Take one pound of black Sope, and foure ounces of frankincense, and a
pinte of white wine vineger: boyle all together upon a gentle fire,
untill it be thick; spread it then upon a lether, and apply it unto the
grieved place. If the ach bee very great and fervent, then adde unto it
a little _aqua vitæ_, and it will be much better.

           _An excellent oyntment for the Shingles, Morphew,
                       Tetters, and Ringwormes._

Take a quarter of a pound of sope, and mingle with it two drams of the
powder of black Ellebor, litharge of silver in fine powder, two ounces,
vardigrease halfe an ounce, and a quarter of an ounce of glasse in
powder, and as much quicksilver, make them all into an oyntment by
stirring them well together; wherewith anoynt the grieved parts. This
is approved and true.

         _An excellent Balme, or water for grievous sore eyes,
              which commeth either of outward accident, or
                         of any inward cause._

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