Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies so as the smoke cannot reverberate ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish houshold [sic] furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein; and also how to cleanse those already infected / By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.
- Cauty, William
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies so as the smoke cannot reverberate ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish houshold [sic] furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein; and also how to cleanse those already infected / By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ [ 11 ] it, and in a few days it was fent back with thanks and politenefs. Befides, C. never imagining the matter had been predetermined, executed another defign, of nine fegments of arches; the middle 120 feet diameter, the four on either fide diminifhing ten feet each. But the principal idea in this drawing confided in a clear demonftration, that the whole balluftrade and foot path was to be a fegment of one flat circle from fhore to fhore; a thing not to be found in any author •, not like the foot-walk of Weftminfter-bridge, which feems to rife and fall on every pier-y and even that, though owing to the nature of the plan, might have been a little remedied if fore- feen in proper time. The illuftration of this flat arch-walk and balluftrade will appear more clear, if we confider the breadth of the river at Black-fryars to be 1100 feet, allowing this to be the bafe line, the extreme parts of which to terminate our flat arches, giving fourteen feet for the depth of water.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30376695_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
