item: #1 of 6
          id: A05657
      author: Bate, John.
       title: The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B.
        date: 1634
       words: 33645
      flesch: 67
     summary: The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B. Bate, John. 1634 Approx. The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B. Bate, John.
    keywords: againe; ayre; bee; cestern; colour; composition; divers; end; figure; fill; fire; foure; glasse; good; gunpowder; halfe; haue; hole; ounces; oyle; paper; peece; pipe; place; pound; powder; red; rockets; set; thereof; use; vessell; water; white
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A06780
      author: Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.
       title: A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation with divers pleasant geometricall obseruations, fortifications, and arithmeticall examples. In fauour of mathematicall students. Newly written in French, and Englished by the authour Tho: [sic] Malthus.
        date: 1629
       words: 26880
      flesch: 65
     summary: Take foure pound of salt●eter , two pound of gunpowder-●ust , two pound of brimstone , all ●hese being well pulverised , let them ●e moystened with oyle of petrole , ●nd then fill your sackes with the ●ame , and cover them with chord , which done , pierce the sacke full of holes with a great bodkin , as representeth the figure E , and in euery hole , place a little yron barrell charged like a pistoll barrell , these little barrells are represented by D , which must be driuen into the sacke vp to the head , and the granad being thus disposed , let there be made at the one end a hole about one inch deepe , which shall serue to prime it with powder-dust , moystened with oyle of petrole , onely it is to be noted that the touch-holes of the little barrells be made somewhat large , to the end ●hat the rust stop them not , being ●ong time kept amongst the salt-pe●er , and so they may be conserved many yeeres , and ready for service ●n all occasions , the figure C. doth ●emonstrate the granad perfect and ●urning . CHAP. WHen the rocket is finished and taken out of th● mould noted A , in the figure of the 3 chapter , an● the rocket is noted with the letter ● in the same figure , then must yo● ioyne to the end of the rocket , which is not choaked an empty cartoush 〈◊〉 coffin , much bigger then the rocke● is large , which is represented by 〈◊〉 in the same figure , in this cartous● you shall put your serpents , golde● rayne , starres , saucissons , or othe● things at your pleasure , but first of 〈◊〉 you must put in the bottome powder dust ; onelie enough to couer the bottome of the large cartoush ; and then put the serpents with the ends downeward which are to take fire ; and likewise the golden rayne in the same manner , but it is the custome to put a little powder dust amongst the stars ; this cartoush being thus filled , couer it with a single piece of paper , and afterward paste vpon that a picked cap made also of single paper , and to make perfect your rocket you must binde a rod of such length and waight , that being bound to the rocket , it must weigh down the rocket on your finger being neere to the rocket , and then stoupel your rocket , ●hat is to say , prime it with cotton-wieke , and it is thus finished either ●o fire or keepe .
    keywords: angle; ayre; bee; chap; composition; distance; doth; dust; end; figure; fire; following; foot; fractions; halfe; haue; length; line; manner; morter; number; parts; place; point; powder; required; rest; rockets; set; times; treatise; vnder; vpon; water; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A25366
      author: Anderson, Robert, fl. 1668-1696.
       title: The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson.
        date: 1696
       words: 9496
      flesch: 73
     summary: ROckets are the most Artificial piece of Fire-work yet used amongst the Pyrobolistes , and hath been more used of late Years than formerly , and that the Young Artists may not spend their Time and Money unnecessarily , I have given easie , plain , and ready Rules for making of Rockets to two Inches and half Diameter , which is sufficient for all private Occasion , viz. The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson.
    keywords: composition; diameter; fire; half; inch; inch rocket; inches; ounces; powder; range; rocket
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A48262
      author: Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. aut
       title: Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.
        date: 1653
       words: 73427
      flesch: 62
     summary: Containing m●ny ple●sant Questions by way of Arithmetick● . Secondly , to give a greater grace to the practice of these things , they ought to be concealed as much as they may , in the subtiltie of the way ; for that which doth ravish the spirits is , an admirable effect , whose cause is unknowne : which if it were discovered , halfe the pleasure is l●st ; therefore all the finenesse consists in the dexterity of the Act , concealing the meanes , and changing often the streame .
    keywords: adde; aire; body; cards; cause; centre; circle; day; distance; earth; end; equall; eye; fire; foot; glasse; gold; halfe; hand; hath; help; hole; houre; length; lesse; line; makes; man; motion; north; number; parts; passe; pipe; place; point; pound; problem; rest; right; said; second; small; square; sun; sunne; things; thought; time; vessell; viz; vvater; vvhich; vvill; water; way; weight; world; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A77668
      author: Browne, George, gunner.
       title: A modell of the fire-workes to be presented in Lincolnes-Inne fields on the 5th. of Novemb. 1647. Before the Lords and Commons of Parliament, and the militia of London, in commemoration of Gods great mercy in delivering this kingdome from the hellish plots of papists, acted in the damnable Gunpowder treason. With their present statues and proportions.
        date: 1647
       words: 1040
      flesch: 67
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A77668 of text R210669 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[92]). Before the Lords and Commons of Parliament Browne, George, gunner. 1647 528 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    keywords: englands; london; parliament
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A84492
      author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
       title: At the Court at Whitehall this sixth day of November 1685 Present, the Kings most excellent Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince George.... Mr. Chancellour of the Dutchy. For the preventing tumultuous disorders, which may happen hereafter upon pretence of assembling, to make bonfires, and fire-works,...
        date: 1685
       words: 1265
      flesch: 69
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84492) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153924)
    keywords: earl; lord; tcp; text; works
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