Corolaire.
BY this invention you may make a little Cabinet of foure foote long, and two foote large, (more or lesse) which being filled with
Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
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- Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
- Author
- Etten, Hendrick van.
- Publication
- Printed at London :: By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery Lane, neere the Rowles,
- 1633.
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- Subject terms
- Science -- Early works to 1800.
- Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.
- Fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00425.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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Rockes or such like things, or there being put into it Silver, Gould, stones of luster, Iew∣els, &c. and the walls of the said Cabinet being all covered or hung with plaine Glasse; these visibles will appeare manifoldly increased, by reason of the multiplicitie of reflexions, and at the opening of the said Cabinet, having set something which might hide them from being seene, those that looke into it will be astoni∣shed to see so few in number which before see∣med to be so many.