Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.

Divers useful and curious Compositions. CHAP. XI.

  • TO make black Writing vanish and appear again, 165.
  • A ingenious way to write a Letter so as it shall, or shall not appear, or the double Letter, 166.
  • The second Ink, ib.
  • A Water to make the second Ink vanish, and the first appear, ib.
  • Ink that may be rubbed out when you will, ib.
  • Ink that will vanish in six dayes, ib.
  • Ink for Parchment, that will last till you rub it out, 168.
  • Indian Ink, ib.
  • Portable or dry ink to carry about, ib.
  • An excellent Writing Ink, ib.
  • A useful way to write on Greasie Paper or Parch∣ment, 169.
  • To write Silver and Gold Letters, ib.
  • Page  [unnumbered]An Ink that may be wiped out in forty dayes, 170.
  • Ink upon Glass, ib.
  • To make a Resemblance of Wines of several Colours, ib.
  • Incombustible Oyl, 171.
  • To make Arsenick run like Oyl, ib.
  • To slack Lime for several Uses, ib.
  • To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoke or waste, ib.
  • A Candle that cannot be put out, 172.
  • To hinder Oyl from smoking, ib.
  • To make Oyl of Eggs white, ib.