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The _Graver_
and the _Cutter_
grave _Shapes_, 10.
and _Characters_
_Cœlator_
& _Scalptor_
insculpit _Figuras_, 10.
& _Characteres_,
with a _Graving Chesil_, 9.
in Wood, Brass,
and other Metals.
_Cœlo_, 9.
Ligno, Æri,
aliisque Metallis.
LXXX.
Looking-glasses.
Specularia.
[Illustration]
_Looking-glasses_, 1.
are provided that Men
may see themselves.
_Specularia_, 1.
parantur, ut homines
intueantur seipsos.
_Spectacles_, 2.
that he may see better,
who hath a weak sight.
_Perspicilla_, 2.
ut cernat acius
qui habet visum debilem.
Things afar off are seen
in a _Perspective Glass_, 3.
as things near at hand.
Remota videntur
per _telescopium_, 3.
ut proxima.
A _Flea_ appeareth
in a _muliplying-glass_, 4.
like a little hog.
_Pulex_, 4.
in _Microscopio_ apparet
ut porcellus.
The Rays of the Sun,
burn wood
through a _Burning-glass_, 5.
Radii Solis
accendunt ligna
per _Vitrum urens_, 5.
LXXXI.
The Cooper.
Vietor.
[Illustration]
The _Cooper_, 1.
having an _Apron_, 2,
tied about him,
_Vietor_, 1.
amictus
_Præcinctorio_, 2.
maketh _Hoops_
of _Hazel-rods_, 3.
upon a _cutting-block_, 4.
with a _Spoke-Shave_, 5.
and _Lags_, 6. of _Timber_,
facit _Circulos_,
è _Virgis Colurnis_, 3.
super _Sellam incisoriam_, 4.
_Scalpro bimanubriato_, 5.
& _Assulas_, 6. ex _Ligno_.
Of _Lags_ he maketh
_Hogsheads_, 7. and _Pipes_, 8.
with two _Heads_;
Ex Assulis conficit
_Dolia_, 7. & _Cupas_, 8.
_Fundo_ bino;
and _Tubs_, 9.
_Soes_, 10.
_Flaskets_, 11.
_Buckets_, 12.
with one Bottom.
tum _Lacus_, 9.
_Labra_, 10.
_Pitynas_ [Trimodia], 11.
& _Situlas_, 12.
fundo uno.
Then he bindeth them
with _Hoops_, 13.
which he tyeth fast
with small _Twigs_, 15.
Postea vincit
_Circulis_, 13.
quos ligat
_Viminibus_, 15.
by means of a _Cramp-iron_, 14.
and he fitteth them on
with a _Mallet_, 16.
and a _Driver_, 17.
ope _Falcis vietoriæ_, 14.
& aptat
_Tudite_, 16.
ac _Tudicula_, 17.
LXXXII.
The Roper, and the Cordwainer.
Restio, & Lorarius.
[Illustration]
The _Roper_, 1.
twisteth _Cords_, 2.
of _Tow_, or _Hemp_, 4.
_Restio_, 1.
contorquet _Funes_, 2.
è _Stupa_, 4. vel _Cannabi_,
(which he wrappeth about
himself)
by the turning of a _Wheel_, 3.
quam circumdat
sibi
agitatione _Rotulæ_, 3.
Thus are made
first _Cords_, 5.
then _Ropes_, 6.
and at last, _Cables_, 7.
Sic fiunt,
primò _Funiculi_, 5.
tum _Restes_, 6.
tandem _Rudentes_, 7.
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