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 /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
1423:4. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 5 unnumbered pages, 41 pages |