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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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    An Account of the Authors, from whence the following Experiments and Obfervatiom were Collected : Belides many Experiments and Ob¬ servations of the Authors own. and luch as he Colle&ed from feveral cu¬ rious Manufcripts, and receiv’d from the Mouths of feveral Ancient and Able Artifis ; he alio Collected from the following Authors, Vi%. t 'W 0 R D Bacon’y Silvia Silvarum. 2 8 Steven BlakeV Comp. Gardners Pt j •*—/ BlithV Englifb Improver. 4 Boy]t sVfefulnefs of Exper. Nat. Philof 5 -fs Sceptical Chymijl. 6 ■— 's Languid and Unheaded Motion„ 7 —-V Phyfic4, 8 BurnetV Letters from Switzerland. 9 DampierV Voyage round the World. xo Sir Kenelm DigbyVii of the Veget.of Pi 11 Dodon^usV Hijloria Plant arum. 12 Albertus Dura Reviv'd. 13 Mr. EvelynV Silva & Pomona* 14 Effay of Nat. Ex.by theAca. Del Cimento, 15 Falconer's Art of Secret Writing. 16 Nicafius Ie FebureV Chymijlry. 17 The French Gardner. f 18 GageV Survey of the Wejl-Indiesi 19 Callendus de Facultatibus Plantarum* *0 Mr. GrewV Anatomy of Vegetables. xi-?s Comparative, Anatomy of Trunks. XX HartlibV Legacy. 23 HaughtonV
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