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Arts improvement: or, choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing, guilding, inlaying, embossing, carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour, and in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience / By T.S. [pseud.] [i.e. Thomas Smith?].

  • Neve, Richard.
Date:
1703
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Credit: Arts improvement: or, choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing, guilding, inlaying, embossing, carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour, and in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience / By T.S. [pseud.] [i.e. Thomas Smith?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    76, Of making an Egg to ft and on one End. Tfemay be done (to win a Wager^ by fettingthe Egg iffiSafe, But this may be done more artificially, thus: Hold an Jgg rn your right Hand, and with your Fift give three or lour ftrong Blows upon your left Arm j or ufe any other de- fey agitation or fhakh g, till you have broken the Yolk, fo inade the White to mingle confufedly with it, and «hCT ik will prefently ftand upon the broad end on an even It fhoufd feem, (that before the breaking of the Yoflfc) that the Yolk did hang playing or tottering within the White,, whereby the Egg could not be made to ftand fpeedily 'wiisfemt this device.And yet I have heard a GentIeman(whom I fcc believe in a greater matter than this,) affirm, that he te divers times caufed an Egg to (land alone, by poizing ©3 and fro between his Hands, till in the end it flood up- vight without any other help. But the firft is the readier way. Sir Hugh Plat, ibid. Add to this, that I remember to have fomewhere Read a Story cf Thrift. Columbus *, who, (after he had difeover’d dSmmcay or the New World,) being in company with fome lOTcertred Fellows, that flighted his difeovery, as a thing of fsrfl moment, and no more than another might have done aswelf as he-, (to convince them, in fome meafure, of their Fo%?)' took an Egg, and asked them which of them could him ftand alone on his little end •, which when they liad rry’d (and were not able) to perform •, lie took the and gently bruifing the little end with the Edge or f&ck of a Knife, he prefcntly made it to (land alone on End ^ faying to the Company, There; now, I fuppofe yon cm dothis too j now you have feen it done, Tj. Of making a conceited Drinking-gla/s-, wherein many forts of Eijh willfeem to fuoim &p and down. It rhe rnidft of a Good large Drinking-glafs, and of a bole? falhion, let afhort Pillar ofGlafs arife, upon which a round Ball or Globe of Glafs muft be placed $ upon which Ball (There muff be divers forts of fmall Fifhes well Drawn and LimnedThen fill the Glafs either with Water, or with Whiceor Rhenifh Wine, and the leaf! motion that can hap¬ pen either to the Wine or Water, will make the Fifties feem to play up and down in the Gkfs. Sir Hugh Plat, ibid. ad. Of putting feveral forts of Liquor in the fame Glafs, without mixing. Take a Eeer-Glafs of 6 or 8 Inches in height, and being of an equal bignefs from the bottom to the top •, then pour therein fome fair Water, an Inch or two in height, upon which