A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd ... Being receipts and concerts of several natures ... / Collected by J. W., a lover of artificial conclusions.
- Date:
- [1677]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd ... Being receipts and concerts of several natures ... / Collected by J. W., a lover of artificial conclusions. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ne a — LL Reagent 10 Several compofitions for the ordering of Stars of feveral colours. F you will have your ftars ‘of a blew colour with red,then take cight ounces of Powder meal- ed, of Salt-peter four ounces, and of Sulphur vive twelve ounces : Meal thefe very fine, and mix them together with two ounces of Aqua vite and half an ounce of the the Oy] of Spike,and let it be dry be- fore you ule it. If you will have a beautiful white Fire , take four ounces of Powder , twelve ounces of Sale: pe- ter,fix ounces of Sulphur vive, and half an ounce of Camphire : meal your ingredients and © mix them, Now to powder your Camphire , you muft ‘ule a Brafs mortar and a peftle, dipping it in Oyl of Al- monds, fo flirring it by degrees it will powder, and then keep it clofe from the Ayre till you ufe iz, or the Camphire will lofe ics {pirit. if you will have a white Fire, and to laftlong then take four ounces of Powder, one ounce of Salt-peter, eight ounces of Sulphur vive,one ounce of Camphire , and two ounces of Oyl of Peter : G meal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30327672_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
