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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Svppose A B C D to be a deepe Well, and E F to be a strong peece of
timber fastned athwart the same, a good way in the water. In this
planke let there bee fastened a peece of timber with a strong wheele in
it, as G H, hauing strong yron spikes droue athwart the wheele within
the creuise, and strongly riueted on each side: let them be three or
foure inches distant from each other. Let there bee likewise made in
the sayde planke two holes, in which set two hollow posts, that may
reach to the top of the Well, or so much higher as you desire to mount
the water; let them bee made fast that they stirre not. In the bottom
of one of these posts, there must be fastned a barrell of brasse, as G
H, made very smooth within, and betwixt those two posts at the top; let
there bee fastned unto them both another peece of strong timber to hold
them fast, lest they start asunder; and in the midst of that make a
mortice, and in it fasten a strong peece of timber with a wheele like
to the former mentioned; the pin whereof ought to bee made fast unto
the wheele, and haue a crooked handle to turne about, that by turning
of it, you may turne the wheele also. Then prouide a strong yron chayne
of length sufficient, hauing on euery third or fourth linke a peece of
horne, that will easily goe through the brasse barrell, and a leather
of each side of it, but somewhat broader then the horne; put this
chayne under the lower wheele in the Well upon both the hollow posts,
draw it ouer the upper wheele, and linke it fast and straight. Turn
then the handle round, and it will turne the chayne round, whose
leathers comming up the brasse barrell, will beare the water before
them; this goeth very strongly, and therefore had neede bee made with
wheeles and wrought upon by horses, for so the water is wrought up at
Broken Wharfe in London.

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          _To make an Engin, which being placed in water will
                 cast the same with violence on high._

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