One Thousand Valuable Secrets In The Elegant And Useful Arts Collected From The Practice Of The Best Artists And Containing An Account Of The Various Methods Of Engraving On Brass Copper And Steel

Author : William Wallis Woodward
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365354055
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts written by William Wallis Woodward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected From the Practice of the Best Artists, and Containing an Account of the Various Methods of Engraving on Brass, Copper and Steel; Of the Composition of Metals; Of Varnishes; Of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing Wax; Of the Glass Manufactory To break an iron bar as big as the arm 4. Another for the fame purpofe 5. To compofe a metal of a gold colour 6. Another compolitio'n of metal 7. To diffolve gold in your naked hand 8. How to give fome perfection to imperfect me tals 9. To melt all forts of metals in the {hell of a nut, without burning it 10. To increafe the Virtue of a loadltone 11. To refiore gold to its weight, after it has loll: it in regal water 12. To Operate the tranfmutation of hlver into gold 13. Fixation of gold into lliver 14. To extract mercury from lead 1 Another mercury from lead I? Permutation oflead into lliver 17. Fixation of faltpetre 18. Tranl'mutation of iron into copper 19. Anotherto the fame purpofe 20. Another 21 To preferve the brightnefs of arms 22. To manage Reel (0, that it may cut iron as it were lead 23. To {often {leel To extract mercury from antimony 35. A magical mercurial ring 26. To melt the aforefaid mercury The virtue of thofe rings 28. A fixation of copper which will be found to yield fix ounces out of eight, on the teli 29. To whiten copper (o as tomake very fine figures With it 30. To give the finefl colour of gold to copper, in order to make fiatues, or other works With it 31. To imitate tortoife {hell on copper 32, To perform the fame on horn To {often metals 4. To wafli brafs figures over with lilver To operate the tranfmutation of iron into Reel 3. Another receipt for the fame To take immediately rult from iron 33. To obtain gogd lllver from pew'ter 39. To (often ilon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.