The mysteries of nature and art in four severall parts. The first of water-works. The second of fier-works. The third of drawing, colouring, limming, paynting, graving, and etching. The fourth of experiments / [John Bate].

  • John Bate
Date:
1654
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Credit: The mysteries of nature and art in four severall parts. The first of water-works. The second of fier-works. The third of drawing, colouring, limming, paynting, graving, and etching. The fourth of experiments / [John Bate]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    way foever you turn the Giafs, the Image will flrill'han® in the middle, and (land as it were upright; which, to my knowlede hath been a thing caufing no Email admiration among divers that have not underftood the caufe of ir. How to make five or fix Bice of the ordinary bigntfs of Dice, finch as you may game wit hall, and fiuch as would he taken by their looks to be ordinary Dice, and yet all of th.m to weigh not above one Grain. Take a piece of Eldern and pith it, lay the Pith to dry and then make thereof with a fharp knife five or fix Dice, and yon. mail nnde it true that I have faid. How to lay Gold on any thing'. Take red Lead ground fir ft very fine, temper it with Linfeed- oyl; wme with it, aud lay leaf-gold on it, let it dry, and pot- ill IT lto • j t To lay Gold on Giafs. Grinde Clalk and red Lead, of each a like quantity toge¬ ther temper them with Linfeed-oyl, lay it on ; when Vt is af- moftdry, lay your Leaf-gold on it, when it is quite drvpol- lifh it. . >: -• . ■ ] r How to make Iron or Steel exceeding hard. Quench your Inftrument feven times in the blood of a male- Hog, mixed with Goof-greafe, and at each time dry it at the fier before you wet ir, and it will become exceeding hard and not brittle: approved. 1 Xfi yron as foft as Lead. Taxe black flints, pouder them very finely • theu nut the pouder in an yron pan, and make it red hot, then caft it on a marble ftone, till ltbealmoft cold, then make it red hot a game and let it coole, and grinde it fo long till it cleave to the ffone and grinde as it were clay ; then put that in a glafTe, and fet it under the Eaves of a houfe, where the Sunne commeth not nigh in the day, then the night after takeout the water that you fhall finde in the glafTe above the pouder then take that pouder and grinde it with the water and our It mandatory, and let it ltill out the halfe ; afterward pourc the water againe on the faid pouder, and ftill ic againewitb a foft fier then take and feeche that water till the halfe be wafted,