Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.

An Index.

A.

• AEOlipiles what, and of what use?
• Arion wafted to shoar by a Dolphin.
• Apelles's Master-piece.
• Archimedes a great Mathematician and Engineer.
  • Inventor of a self-moving Sphere.
• Amphitheaters made of Glass.
• Argo, Jason's Ship.
• Arts, perfected by degrees.
• Arras work, where made?

B.

• Baboon taught to play on the Guittar.
• Beasts of all sorts tamed. delighted with Musique.
• Bear playing on a Tabor, and dancing.
• Balsas what, and of what use?
• Boetius a rare Mathematician▪
• Boats made to sayl under water,
  • made to sail of themselves,
  • made of a Tortoise shell,
  • made of Osier or Wicker,
  • made of Paper or Reeds.
• Biting of the Tarantula cured by Musique.
• Bellows fill'd with water to blow fire.

C.

• Cambricks made at Cambray.
• Coco-trees the great benefit of them.
• Crow taught to flye at Partridges.
• Clocks of curious workmanship.
• Chains very curious made by Vulcan.
• Corn. van Drebble a great Mechanique or Engineer.
• Curracles described by Lucan.
• Cicuration, or taming of Wild Beasts.
• Christal Glass impatients of heats.
• Cloth made of dowle growing upon a shell∣fish,
  • made of incombustible flax.
  • made of a hairy stone called Trichitis or Salamanders wooll,
  • made of the Barks of Trees,
  • made of Camels hair, called Camelots,
  • made of wooll fallen from the sky.
• Cloth made clean by throwing it into the fire.
• Coaches going with Sails.
• Chariots drawn by Lions,
  • by Tygers,
  • by Staggs,
  • by Dogs,
  • by Estriches,
  • by Elephants,
  • moved by Sails.

D.

• Dials invented by Anaxamenes, made with Heliotrope flowers.
• Dolphins made use of to catch fish.
• Deer used for the Saddle.
• Dove artificial made to fly.
• Devil hater of Musique.
• Damask-works.
• Dancing Horses.

E.

• Eagles taught to fly at fowl.
• Eagle artificial made to fly.
• Eloquence, the great force and power of it.
• Erasmus his Spherical Ring.
• Elephants taught to dance, and how.
  • Very docil, and taught to perform sundry Offices.
• Estriches put to draw a Coach.

F.

• Flavio of Amalphi, first inventor of the Mariners compass.
• Feather works of rare Art.
• Fish Nautilus, first Type of a Ship.
• Flea with a chain about her neck.
• Fossil and fulfil glasses.
• Fishes affected with Musique.

G.

• Glass where made, and whereof.
• Glass Galley.
• Glass chains.
• Glass Organs.
• Glasses made to burn Ships.
• Glass made malleable.
• Grograms made of Coats hair.
• Garments made of feathers.

H.

• Hours, so named from Horus Apollo.
• Horses taught to dance.
• Hydrautick Organs,
• Heavens artificial.

I.

• Instrument of perpetual motion invented by Van Drebble.
• Incombustible Flax.
• Iron Spider made to move like a natural one.
• Iron mill that one could carry about him▪

L.

• Leopards taught to run at Deer like Grey∣hounds.
• Linnen the general wear of Priests.
• Limning or Painting how begun.
• ...

• Letters invented by the Phoenicians.
• Lions tamed for several offices.
• Loadstone described by Claudian, very useful by Land and by Sea, comparable to all the pretious stones in the world.
• Locks of curious work.
• Lute, why called Testudo.
• Looking-glasses, some strange feats to be done by them.
• Load-stars, which they be.
• Looms weaving Webs of themselves.

M.

• Musique the first Invention of it,
  • the power and efficacy of it,
  • upon men and beasts,
  • upon good and bad Angels,
  • in curing diseases of body and mind,
  • in corrupting manners, or reform∣ing.
• Memnon's Statue Musical.
• Mariners Compass, by whom invented.
• Mills of Segovia, Tholouse, and Dant∣zick, admirable.
• Mill of Iron that one could carry in his sleeve.
• Monky very skilful at Chess-play.
• ...

• Moon inhabited.
• Mosaic work, what it is.
• Myrons brasen Cow.

N.

• Navigation a bold Art.
• Navigation very imperfect before the in∣vention of the Compass.
• Navigation by land, and under water.

O.

• Organs tuned by the motion of water,
  • by the Sun-beams.
• Opsidian glass, what kind.
• Orpheus his powerful Musique.
• Ovid's Pen preserved.
• Organ Pipes made of Glass,
  • made of Alablaster.
• Otters taught to drive fish into the net.

P.

• Parrot taught to sing the Gam-ut.
• Painting or Limning a useful and delight∣ful Art.
• Plumary art what it is.
• Pictures made of feathers.
• Pictures highly valued.
• Panthers tamed for hunting.
• Picture called Deaths-dance.
• ...

• Printing, where invented.
• Printing-Presses.
• Paper made of seggs or rushes,
  • made of lint and rags.

R.

• Rare shews on the Roman Amphith••aters.
• Roger Bacon a great Mathematician.
• Reversus, a fish used to catch fish withal.

S.

• Sea-dial; See Mariners Compass.
• Spiders in the Summer Islands making silk.
• Spider of Iron moving like the natural.
• Sybarits horses taught to dance.
• Sailing Coaches.
• Sailing by stars before the invention of the Compass.
• Sailing in Taprobana by the direction of birds.
• Ships with Gardens and Orchards on the tops.
• Ship first invented by Jason among the Gre∣cians.
• Silk-worm first brought into Europe.
• Sea-silk.
• Silk whether any vegetable or growing upon trees.
• Spiders tissue admirable.
• ...

• Spit to turn by a Sail, by the motion of Air.
• Spheares representing the heavenly bodies and motions.
• Specular stone what it was.
• Statues vocal.
• Salamanders wooll, what it is.

T.

• Thermo-meters, or Weather glasses.
• Travelling by the direction of Stars.
• Tortoise shell used for a house and a boat.
• Tortoise shell first pattern of a Lute.
• Triton artificial, sounding a Trumpet.
• Tredeskins Ark.
• Tyrians the best Navigators.

V.

• Velvets and Sattins made of the bark of the Palm tree.
• Vulcans chains very subtile.
• Venus rising out of the Sea, was Apelles his master-piece.

W.

• Waggon and Oxen of glass, that a Fly could cover with her wings.
• Weaving by whom invented.
• Water-works of sundry sorts.
• Watches made in the collet of a Ring, hang∣ing at Ladies eares.
• ...

• Weather-glasses of what use.
• Wind-motions, sundry instances.
• Writing an excellent invention.
• Writing in lead and brass,
  • in rocks and stones,
  • in leaves and barks of trees,
  • in cedar and box,
  • in waxen tables.
• Writing in short hand, by whom invented.
• Writing with the feet.
• Wooll, whether growing upon trees.
• Wooll rain'd from the sky made into cloth.
• Wooden Palace of Henry VIII.

Z.

• Ziglography what, and of what use.
• Zeuxes his picture of an old woman decei∣ved by a painted curtain.