Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].

  • John Pettus
Date:
1683
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Credit: Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Copper-OarS are to be proved, with ordinary Bellows, and a Man to attend them. 5. The Bellows as they are ufed. 6. A Copper Inflrument (with a Neck) in which water is put and fet over the Fire, and ufed inflead of Bellows (called Philofophical Bellows, fee Lib. 1. Sculp, 2.) 7. The Pot in which the Flufsis to be made. 8.The Aflay Crucibles. 9. The Block, Hammer and Pieces to be beaten. P^e 265. SCULPTURE XXXI. Reprefents 1. -r-HE Copper and Lead Pieced weighed, and a Man that attends them. a. The X Oven for melting frelh Oars. 3. The Copper Pan into which the frelh pieces are to be call. 4. The form of the freili pieces melted. 5. TheMelter. 6. The Vault which recievcs the dull and fmoak. 7. The little Door out of which the dull is to be cleanfed. 8. The Wheel that brings in Water with the Tub to recieve it. Page 174. SCULPT U R E i 1 XXXII. f h Reprefents i. THE Allay Oven for Copper. 2. The fupporters to be made of Copper. 3 .The A Allayed pieces as^hey Rand in the Oven. 4. The Walls or four fides of the Oven,with the fire in it, and how the Oven is braced with Iron Hoops. 5. The flampt pieces and Coals on the top of the Oven. 6.The Copper or Iron littlePans, with a man putting the melted fluff into them. 7. The Kinflocks. 8. The Crane or draught by which the Affay pieces are to be lifted out of the Alfay-Oven, or other wife difpofed of. 9. Inftruments, viz. Ladle, Pitcher, Fork and Hook. 10. The Trough or place to cool the Inflruments in water. Page 27S. SCULPTURE XXXIII. . Reprefents 1. A Drying Oven. 2. An Oven foon made, according to the Hungarian way. 3. A common ready Harth attended with two Men. 4. The Kinflocks which are to be pickt with an Iron Tool and beaten by a Man. 5. An Harth for fpkdng according to the Hungarian way. 6.6.6. The Copper Cakes, quench’t in a Ciflern of Water by a Man. P age 284. SCULPTURE XXXIV, Reprejents 1. A Frelh Oven. 2. A little By-Oven for Lead. 3. A frefh piece, with a Man lift- PX ing it. 4. The feparation of roafled and weighed Lead, brought by a Man with a Wheel-barrow, and laid in heaps. 5. The Vault for the fmoak and dull, 6. Trtie Tunnel for the Smoak. 7. The frelh Oven ^without a fore Wall. 8.8, The Affay-Oven. 9. The little Pans for the melted Work. Page 288. SCULPTUR E XXXV. Reprefents 1. A N Oven in which Brafs is to be made, the lliape of it in the infide, and how the x Pots and Crucibles are to be placed in it. 2. How the Brafs Ovens are to be placed in the Work. 3. The (hapes of the Pots and Crucibles. 4. The Shovel for [ g ] the