Volume 2

Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth ... / Translated by Mr. Humphreys.

  • Noël-Antoine Pluche
Date:
1757-63
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Credit: Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth ... / Translated by Mr. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [vi] D. The Screw with its Wheel. | E. The Bearer, or large Piece of Timber, on which the Wheels reft, in order to fink the Beams crofling the Planks that cover the Grapes, EF. | G. The Maye, or Planks, on which the Pile of Grapes F, are difpofed, in order to be fqueezed. 'Thefe Planks are “cut in Natches, to receive the Liquor, and to convey it in a Slope to the Veflel appropriated to receive it. The Maye is fupported by a maflive Work of Mafonry, that — it may refiftthe Effort of the Preflure ; and this Mafonry is detached from every other Work, in fuch a manner, that a Perfon may walk round it in order to vifit the Foundations and the Extremities of the upright Beams, as there may be occafion ; and to open a free Acces of Air upon all the Wood-work. | H. The Wheel which ferves for forcing down the Screw and the Bearer upon the Grapes. When the Prefs is to be worked, the Grapes are laid upon the Maye in a fquare Heap, over which three Poles are extended; one in the Middle, and one at each Extremity, in order to form a Bafis for the Planks that are to be laid upon it fide by fide. Upon thefe Planks, three, four,.or five Beams are afterwards extended, proportionably to the Dimenfions of the Prefs. On this firft Range of Beams is placed a fecond; and on that a third; after which, a ‘Turning-Wheel winds off the Cord from the other Wheel, by which means the Screw and the Bearer are preffed down upon the Beams. J. A leathern Pipe, for the Transfufion of the Wine from one Piece to another. It terminates in two wooden Tubes, one of which is applied to the Bottom of the Vefiel, which is to be filled, and the other to the large Veffel which is to be emptied. K. A large Bellows; to agitate the Wine when it has fettled into an even Surface in the two Pieces. L. The fame Bellows in Profile. | M. A large Fountain, which affords a quick Flow. N. A Bung or Stopple, to clofe the Top of the Veffel newly filled; that the external Air may prevent the Efflux of the Wine upon the withdrawing of the Wooden Tube.
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