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Mechanick-powers, or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd : shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines ... : together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use ... : the whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts

Title: Mechanick-powers, or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd : shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines ... : together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use ... : the whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts / by Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon ...
Author: Mandey, Venterus
Publication: London : Printed for the authors ... and sold by Ven. Mandey ... and James Moxon ... and R. Clavel ..., 1696.

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[12], 315, [5] p., [17] folded leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm. (4to)

Alternative Title

Mechanick-powers.
Mechanick powers.
Mistery of nature and art unvail'd.
Mechanic powers, or, The mystery of nature and art unveiled.

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Note

"A theorem. Of engines moved by water ... Also engines to make paper, in which a wooden cylinder of sufficient magnitude standing out, furnisht with little troughs, takes up wooden mallots, which bruise and brake whatsoever is laid under them to powder": p. 70-71; "We may likewise apply the same construction to wings, or to the axle-tree of mills, which have their wheel vertical, and which are for powder, for paper, for fulling, for forging, &c. or it may raise pestles, very near as you see represented in this figure": p. 297-301 and fig. 200. The second article is a translation of "Construction des rouës dont les arbres ont des bras ou aîles qui servent à élever des pistons, comme sont celles des moulins à poudre, à papier, à foulon, à forge, &c.," by Philippe de la Hire, originally published in his Traité de mecanique (Paris, 1695).
Running title: Mechanick powers.
Illustrations: 17 prints (212 figs.): engraving ; full-page or larger.
Bookseller's advertisements: p. [316-318].
Errata: p. [318-320].

Indexed In (note)

Wing (2nd ed.)

Call Number

Schlosser 484

OCLC

NYPG90-B102170

Author

Mandey, Venterus.

Title

Mechanick-powers, or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd : shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines ... : together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use ... : the whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts / by Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon ...

Imprint

London : Printed for the authors ... and sold by Ven. Mandey ... and James Moxon ... and R. Clavel ..., 1696.

Indexed In:

Wing (2nd ed.) M419

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Provenance: Wm. Dryden (autograph).

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Moxon, J. (James), 1627-1700.

La Hire, Philippe de, 1640-1718. Construction des rouës dont les arbres ont des bras ou aîles qui servent à élever des pistons, comme s ont celles des moulins à poudre, à papier, à foulon, à forge, &c. English. 1696.

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Mechanick-powers.

Mechanick powers.

Mistery of nature and art unvail'd.

Mechanic powers, or, The mystery of nature and art unveiled.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 484

VF (Manday, V. Mechanick-powers)

(Parsons) VDCP (Manday, V. Mechanick-powers)

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