The elements of water-drawing, or, [A] compendious abstract of a[ll sorts of kinds] of water-machins or gins used or pr[actis]ed in the world : with their natural grounds and reasons, and what service may be expected from them : as also new exquisite ways and machins never before published : with a philosophical discourse and new discovery of drawing water out of great deeps by fier : where is also disapproved the perpetual motion, the water-poise, the syphon or philosophers engine, the horizontal sails, with divers other experiments /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'acres, R.
Other Authors: Thornton, Robert, 1618-1679
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1423:4.
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Description
Item Description:Preface signed: R. D'acres.
Ascribed on insufficient evidence to Robert Thornton.
Imprint date handwritten on title page; Wing suggests 1660.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Microform.
Physical Description:5 unnumbered pages, 41 pages