A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits ... being receipts and conceits of several natures ... As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals

White, John, -1671, Whitwood, William, bookseller, Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1677 · London, Printed for William Whitwood at the sign of the Golden Bell in Duck-Lane near Smith-field, 1677. · 48 pictures

A 1677 London compendium by John White, printed for bookseller William Whitwood, collecting recipes, mechanical conceits, fireworks, and mathematical experiments for amateur hobbyists and curious readers. Its woodcut pictures are small, crisp diagrams of wheels, ladders, a geared apparatus, and a tent-like frame, drawn in plain outline with clear labels and letters, useful to a designer seeking simple schematic line art with an early-modern feel.

Early works to 1800 · England · Fireworks · Formulas, recipes, etc · Geometry · London · Science · Scientific recreations

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