Mechanick powers; or, The mystery of nature and art unvail'd ... Together, with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work, and other engines ... The whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts / By Ven. Mandey, Philomat [and J. Moxon].
- Venterus Mandey
- Date:
- 1702
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Mechanick powers; or, The mystery of nature and art unvail'd ... Together, with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work, and other engines ... The whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts / By Ven. Mandey, Philomat [and J. Moxon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Prop. VII. The quantity being given of a Stake, or NaP, driven into any body by a determined Weight, from a determined Height j to iind » Weight which will perform the fame from any other Height. Page 113 Prop. VIII- To make divers kinds of compound Engins. ibid The CONTENTS of the Seventh BOOK. AN Engin whereby a Waggoner may raife his Waggon, or Cart, altho loaded ; alfo by it, the roof of an Houfe, yea the whole cafe of the Houfe may be raifed, t 14 To raife a vaft Weight with an Engin compounded of a Pulley, Axis in Peritrochio, and a perpetual Screw, 115; To take up a Mill-ftene with an Engin wrought by the Smoak of a Lamp, a 116 An Engin by whofe means a mighty weight is continually raifed, altho* the Power be not continually applied j but now and-then a little pmpulfe prelfes it on by its own endeavour. 11 7 The Capftands, or WindJaces, which obtain a vertical fite,are of great ufe, becaufe they may be moved only by Animals,or Cattel, which alone proper¬ ly and rigoroully move with a Horizontal motion 1 22 An Engin to remove a Mountain, or heap of Earth, from one place to ano» ther,eafily and quickly, 124 An Engin to draw Water,or mineral matter,out of deep Wells,or Pits, 125 To apply a Wheel to the precedent Engins, and to others of thp like kindr By means whereof the Power is eafed 1 28 An Engin to raife the Water of a Fountain always flowing, to any height, by a voluntary motion, although the height be greater than that to which* the Water defcends, 132 An Engin to perform the fame thing eafily in any given proportion of height, 137 An Engin to empty Handing Waters, >40 An Engin by whofe means the Water always afcends to any given height, flippofing alfo it be but a fmall flrream of Water, fo it be but conftant, 143 The CONTENTS of the Eighth BOOK. PRrop. I. Qf mixt motion from circular and right, or from two or more Circulars. 146 Prop. II. Any point except the Centre of the forefaid Wheel, or Globe, de- fcribes a crooked line which is not circular, 147 Prop. III. A lefl’er Wheel included in a greater is fo moved, that in it the motion of the Centre is greater than the morion of the Orb, 151 Prop. IV. The difficulty of yiriftotlPs Wheel, that is, the motion of the leG fer Wheel,when this is dife&ed by the motion of the greater. ibid Prop. V. A Globe, or Wheel, whiie’tis moved upon a plane, whether Ho¬ rizontal or inclined, is moved by a mixt motion of a circular and a right, and is determined according to a circular motion from the impediment which is in the contact of the plane on which ’tis moved^,; 157 ]Prop>](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30500035_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
