Chap 31 The Iron rubbed with the Northern point of the load-stone will turn to the south and with the south point to the north Chap 32 Iron touched with the load-stone will impart the force to other Iron Chap 33 The vertue received in the Iron is weakened by one that is stronger Chap 34 To discern in a Stone the South or North point Chap 35 To rub the Iron-needle of the Marriners compass Chap 36 The uses of Marriners Compasses Chap 37 The Longitude of the world may be found out by the help of the Load-stone Chap 38 If the Marriners Needle stand still and the Load-stone move or contrarily they will move contrary ways Chap 39 The Load-stone imparts a contrary form to the Needle Chap 40 Two Needles touching by the Load stone obtain contrary forces Chap 41 The force of the Iron that draws will drive off Iron by diversity of Situation Chap 42 The Needle touched by the Load-stone on one part doth not always receive vertue on both parts Chap 43 The Needle touched in the middle by the Load-stone sends forth its force at both ends Chap 44 An Iron Ring touched by a Load stone will receive both vertues Chap 45 An Iron plate touched in the middle will difits forces at both ends Chap 46 Filings Iron may receive force Chap 47 Whether Garlick can hinder the vertues of the Load-stone Chap 48 A Load-stone astonished may be brought to its self again Chap 49 To augment the Load-stones vertue Chap 50 That the Load-stone may lose its vertue Chap 51 How the Iron touched with the load stone loseth its force Chap 52 That the Diamond hindereth the load-stones vertue is false Chap 43 Goats blood doth not free the load-stone from the inchantment of the Diamond Chap 54 The Iron touched with a Diamond will turn to the North Chap 55 Forces and Remedies of the load-stone Chap 56 The eighth Book Of Physical Experiments MEdicines which cause sleep Chap 1 To make a man out of his senses for a day Chap 2 To cause several kinds of Dreames Chap 3 Excellent Remedies for the eyes Chap 4 To faâ—ten the teeth Chap 5 For other infirmities of mans body Chap 6 That a woman may conceive Chap 7 Remedies against the Pox Chap 8 Antidotes against Poyson Chap 9 the Plague Chap 10 Remedies for wounds and blows Chap 11 A secret medicine for wounds Chap 12 To counterfeit infirmities Chap 13 Of Fascination and preservatives against Inchantments Chap 14 The ninth Book Of Beautifying Women TO dye the hair Yellow or Gold-colour Chap 1 Red Chap Chap 2 Black Chap Chap 3 To make hairs part smooth Chap 4 How hair may grow again Chap 5 To take away sores and worms that spoil the hair Chap 6 To make hair curl Chap 7 To make the Eye-brows black Chap 8 To make the face white Chap 9 To make the face very clean to receive the colour Chap 10 To make the face very soft Chap 11 To make the face shine like silver Chap 12 To dissolve Talk for to beautifie women Chap 13 The preparation of sublimate Chap 14 How White-lead is prepared for the face Chap 15 The best Sopes for Women Chap 16 To make the face Rose-coloured Chap 17 Against redness of the face Chap 18 To make a Sun-burnt face white Chap 19 To take spâ—ts from the face Chap 20 To take off red Pimples Chap 21 To take letters from the face or elswhere Chap 22 To take away Warts Chap 23 To take wrinkles from the body Chap 24 Of Dentifrices Chap 25 To hinder the Brests from augmenting Chap 26 To make the hand white Chap 27 To correct the ill sent of the Arm-pits Chap 28 How the matrix over-widened in childe-birth may be made narrower Chap 29 Sports against women Chap 30 The tenth Book Of Distillation VVHat Distillation is how many sorts Chap 1 Extraction of Waters Chap 2 Extracting Aqua Vitae Chap 3 To distil with the heat of the Sun Chap 4 To draw Oyl by expression Chap 5 To extract Oyl with Water Chap 6 To separate Oyl from water Chap 7 To make an instrument to extract Oyl in a greater quantity and without danger of burning Chap 8 The description of a Descendatory Chap 9 To extract Oyl out of Gums Chap 10 To draw Oyl out of other things Chap 11 To extract Oyl by descent Chap 12 Extraction of Essences Chap 13 Magisteries what their extraction Chap 14 To extract tinctures Chap 15 To extract Salts Chap 16 Of Elixirs Chap 17 Of a Clissus how made Chap 18 To get Oyl out of Salts Chap 19 Of Aqua Fortis Chap 20 Of the separation of the Elements Chap 21 The eleventh Book Of Perfuming OF Perfuming waters Chap 1 To make sweet water by infusion Chap 2 To make sweet Oyls Chap 3 To extract Water and Oyl out of sweet Gums by infusion Chap 4 To perfume Skins Chap 5 To make sweet Powders Chap 6 To make sweet Compounds Chap 7 To make sweet perfumes Chap 8 To Adulterate Musk Chap 9 The twelfth Book Of Artificial Fires DIvers ways to procure fire Chap 1 The compositions for fire our Ancestors used Chap 2 Divers compositions of Gun-powder Chap 3 Pipes made to cast out fire Chap 4 To make fire-balls that are shot in Brass-guns Chap 5 Compositions with burning waters Chap 6 Balls made of Metals to cast forth fire and Iron wedges Chap 7 How in plain ground and under waters Mines may be presently digged Chap 8 Things good to extinguish fire Chap 9 Divers compositions for fire Chap 10 Fire-compositions for feastival days Chap 11 Experiments of fire Chap 12 How a Candle shall burn continually Chap 13 The thirteenth Book Of tempering Steel IRon by mixture may be hardened Chap 1 How Iron will wax soft Chap 2 The temper of Iron must be used upon soft Irons Chap 3 How for all mixtures Iron may be tempered most hard Chap 4 Liquors that will harden Iron Chap 5 The temper of a Tool shall cut a Porphyr Marble Stone Chap 6 To grave a Porphyr Marble without an Iron Tool Chap 7 How Iron by heating in the fire may be made tractable for works Chap 8 How Damask Knives may be made Chap 9 Polished Iron how preserved from rust Chap 10 The fourteenth Book Of Cookery HOw flesh may be made tender Chap 1 How flesh may grow tender by secret propriety Chap 2 How flesh may be made tender otherwise Chap 3 How Shell-creatures may grow more tender Chap 4 That living creatures may be made more fat and well tasted Chap 5 How the flesh of Animals is made sweeter Chap 6 How they are made too bitter to be eaten Chap 7 How Animals may be boiled rosted baked all at once Chap 8 Divers ways to dress Pullets Chap 9 How meats may be prepared in places where there is nothing to rost them with Chap 10 Divers confections of Wines Chap 11 To make men drunk and loath wine Chap 12 To drive Parasites from great mens Tables
Chap 13 The fifteenth Book Of Fishing Fowling Hunting c. VVHat meats allure divers animals Chap 1 How living creatures are drawn on with the baits of love Chap 2 Animals called together by things they like Chap 3 What noises allure Birds Chap 4 Fishes allured by light in the night Chap 5 By Looking glasses many creatures are brought together Chap 6 Animals are congregated by sweet smells Chap 7 Creatures made drunk catcht with hand Chap 8 Peculiar poysons of Animals Chap 9 Venomes for Fishes Chap 10 Experiments for hunting Chap 11 Tee sixteenth Book Of invisible Writing HOw a writing dipt in divers liquors may be read Chap 1 Letters made visible in the fire Chap 2 Letters rubâ—d with dust to be seen Chap 3 To write in an egge Chap 4 How you may write in divers places and deceive one that can reade Chap 5 In what place Letters may be inclosed Chap 6 What secret messengers may be used Chap 7 Messengers not to know that they carry Letters nor to be found about them Chap 8 Characters to be made that at set days shall vanish Chap 9 To take off Letters that are written on paper Chap 10 To counterfeit a Seal and Writing Chap 11 To speak at a great distance Chap 12 Signs to be made with fire by night and with dust by day Chap 13 The seventeenth Book Of Burning-glasses and the wonderful sights by them REpresentations made by plain Glasses Chap 1 Sports with plain Looking-glasses Chap 2 A Looking-glass called a Theatrecal-glass Chap 3 Operations of Concave glasses Chap 4 Mixt operations of plain Concave glasses Chap 5 Other operations of a Concave-glass Chap 6 How to see in the dark Chap 7 An Image may be seen to range in the air Chap 8 Mixtures of Glasses and divers operations of Images Chap 9 Effects of a Leuticular Crystal Chap 10 Spectacles to see beyond imagination Chap 11 To see in a Chamber things that are not Chap 12 The operations of a Cristal-pillar Chap 13 Burning-glasses Chap 14 A Parabolical Section which is of Glasses the most burning Chap 15 That may burn obliquely and at very great distance Chap 16 That may burn at infinite distance Chap 17 A Burning-glass made of many spiritural Sections Chap 18 Fire kindled more forcible by refraction Chap 19 An Image to be seen by a hollow Glass Chap 20 How Spectacles are made Chap 21 Foils are laid on Concave glasses and how they are banded Chap 22 How Metal Looking-glasses are made Chap 23 The eighteenth Book Of Things heavy and light THat heavy things descend and light ascend in the same degree Chap 1 By drinking to make sport with those that sit at table Chap 2 To part wine from water it is mingled with Chap 3 Another way to part water from wine Chap 4 To part a light body from a heavy Chap 5 To mingle things heavy and light Chap 6 Other ways to part wine from water Chap 7 The â—evity of water and air different and what may be wraught thereby Chap 8 The ninteenth Book Of Wind-Instruments VVHether material Statues may speak by an Artificial way Chap 1 Musical-Instruments made with water Chap 2 Experiments of Wind-Instruments Chap 3 A Description of Water-hour-glasses Chap 4 Of a Vessel casting forth water by reason of air Chap 5 How to use the air in many Arts Chap 6 The twentieth Book Of the Chaos HOw water may be made Potable Chap 1 To make water of air Chap 2 To alter the face that ones friends shall not know him Chap 3 That stones may move alone Chap 4 An Instrument whereby to hear at great distance Chap 5 To augment weight Chap 6 The wonderful proporties of the Harp Chap 7 To discover frauds in Impostors that work by natural means and pretend conjuration Chap 8 Experiments of a Lamp Chap 9 Some mechanical Experiments Chap 10 FINIS
for truth To make men seem like to Blackmores Take Ink but the best comes from Cutles mingle this with your Lamps and the flame will be black Anaxilaus is reported to have done this for oft-times by mingling Cutles Ink he made the standers by as black as Ethiopians Simeon Sethi saith That if any man shall dip a Wick in Cutles Ink and Verdigrease those that stand by will seem partly Brass-colour partly Black by reason of the mixture And we may imitate this in all colours for setting aside all other lights that might hinder it for else the other lights will spoil the sport and if you do it by day shut the windows lest the light come in there and destroy the delusion If the Lamp be green Glass and transparent that the rays coming through may be dyed by the colour of the medium which is of great consequence in this and green Coppras be mingled with the Oyl or what moysture it burns with and they be well ground together that the liquor may be green make your Cotten of some linnen of the same colour or bombast this being smeered with it must burn in that Lamp the light that is opposite against you will shew all faces of the beholders and other things to be green To make the face seem extream pale and lean This is easie pour into a large Glass very old Wine or Greek Wine and cast a handful of Salt into it set the Glass upon burning coles without flame lest the Glass should break it will presently boil put a Candle to it and light it then put out all other lights and it will make the faces of the standers by to be such that they will be one afraid of another The same falls out in shops where Bells and Metals are melted for they seem so strangely coloured in the dark that you would wonder at it their lips look pale wan and black and blew Also let Brimstone when it burns be set in the middle of the company and it will do the same more powerfully Anaxilaus the Philosopher was wont to work by such delusions For Brimstone put into a new cup and set on fire and carried about by the repercussion of it when it burns makes the company look pale and terrible That oft-times happened to me when at Naples I walked in the night in the Leucogean Mountains for the Brimstone burning of it self made me look so CHAP. X. Of some mechanical Experiments THere are some Experiments that are witty and not to be despised and are done by Simples without mixture which I thought not unfit to communicate to ingenuous Men and Artificers There is an Art called The flying Dragon or the Comet It is made thus Make a quadrangle of the small pieces of Reeds that the length may be to the breadth one and half inproportion put in two Diameters on the opposite parts or Angles where they cut one the other bind it with a small cord and of the same bigness let it be joyned with two others that proceed from the heads of the Engine Then cover it with paper or thin linnen that there be no burden to weigh upon it then from the top of a Tower or some high place send it out where the wind is equal and uniform not in to great winds lest they break the workmanship nor yet to small for if the wind be still it will not carry it up and the weak wind makes it less labour Let it not flye right forth but obliquely which is effected by a cord that comes from one end to the other and by the long tale which you shall make of cords of equal distance and papers tied unto them so being gently let forth it is to be guided by the Artificers hand who must not move it idly or sluggishly but forcibly so this flying Sayle flies into the air When it is raised a little for here the wind is broken by the windings of the houses you can hardly guide it or hold it with your hands Some place a Lanthorn upon it that it may shew like a Comet others put a Cracker of paper wherein Gun-power is roled and when it is in the air by the cord there is sent in a light match by a ring or some thing that will abide this presently flies to the Sayle and gives fire to the mouth of it and the Engine with a thundring noise flies into many parts and falls to the ground Others bind a Cat or Whelp and so they hear cries in the air Hence may an ingenuous Man take occasion to consider how to make a man flye by huge wings bound to his elbows and breast but he must from his childhood by degrees use to move them always in a higher place If any man think this a wonder let him consider what is reported that Archytas the Pythagorean did For many of the Noble Greeks and Favorinus the Philosopher the greatest searcher out of Antiquities have Written affirmatively that the frame of a Pigeon made in wood was formed by Archytas by some art and made to flie it was so balanced in the air by weights and moved by an aireal Spirit shut within it Soli Deo Gloria FINIS A TABLE containing the General Heads of NATURAL MAGICK The first Book Treating of wonderful things VVHat is meant by the name Magick Chap 1 The Nature of Magick Chap 2 Instruction of a Magitian what he ought to be Chap 3 Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers touching the causes of strange operations and first of the Elements Chap 4 Divers operations of Nature proceed from the essential forms of things Chap 5 Whence the form cometh of the Chain that Homer faigned and the Ring that Plato mentioneth Chap 6 Sympathy and Antipathy by them to finde the vertues of things Chap 7 From Heaven and the Stars things receive their force and thereby many things are wrought Chap 8 Attract the vertues of superior Bodies Chap 9 Knowledge of secrets dependeth upon the survey of the World Chap 10 Likeness of things sheweth their secret vertues Chap 11 Compound things by their likeness Chap 12 Particular creatures have particular gifts some in their whole body others in their parts Chap 13 Properties of things while they live and after death Chap 14 Simples to be gotten and used in their seasons Chap 15 Where they grow chiefly to be considered Chap 16 Properties of Places and Fountains commodious for this work Chap 17 Compounds work more forceably and how to compound and mix those simples which we would use in our mixtures Chap 18 Just weight of a mixture Chap 19 Prepare Simples Chap 20 The second Book Of the generation of Animals PUtrefaction and of a strange manner of producing living creatures Chap 1 Earthy Creatures generated of putrefaction Chap 2 Birds which are generated of the putrefaction of Plants Chap 3 Fishes which are generated of putrefaction Chap 4 New kinds of living creatures may be generated by copulation of divers beasts Chap 5 Dogs
may be generated of great courage and with divers rare properties Chap 6 Pretty little dogs to play with Chap 7 Amend the defects in dogs Chap 8 Divers kinds of Mules Chap 9 Mingle Sheep and Goats by generation Chap 10 Commixions whereby Beasts of divers kinds are generated Chap 11 Copulations of a man with divers kindes of Beasts Chap 12 Divers kindes of Birds generated by divers Birds coupling together Chap 13 Commixions of Hens with other birds Chap 14 Hawkes of divers properties generated Chap 15 Commixion of divers kind of Fishes Chap 16 New and strange Monsters Chap 17 Wayes to produce strange and monstrous births Chap 18 Wonderful force of imagination and how to produce party-coloured births Chap 19 Women to bring forth fair and beautiful children Chap 20 Either males or females to be generated Chap 21 Experiments practised upon divers living creatures Chap 22 The third Book Of the production of new Plants NEw kindes of Plants may be generated of putrefaction Chap 1 Plants changed one degenerating into the form of the other Chap 2 One fruit compounded of many Chap 3 A second means Chap 4 A third way Chap 5 Fruits made double the one contained within the other Chap 6 Strange fruits may be generated and made either better or worse Chap 7 Ripe fruits and flowers before their ordinary seasons Chap 8 Fruits and Flowers may be had at all times of the year Chap 9 Made late and backward Chap 10 Fruit to grow bigger then their ordinary kinds Chap 11 Fruit that shall have neither stone nor kernel Chap 12 Fruit produced without any rines or shels Chap 13 Colours such as are not incident to their kinde Chap 14 Colours of Flowers may be changed Chap 15 Fruits and Flowers may be changed to a better favour then ordinary Chap 16 Fruits to be sweeter and pleasenter for tast Chap 17 Fruits in growing may be made to resemble all figures and impressions whatsoever Chap 18 Fruits to be made more tender beautiful and goodly to the eye Chap 19 Divers kindes of Fruits and wines made medicinable Chap 20 Fruits and Vines planted that may yield greatest encrease Chap 21 The fourth Book The increasing of Houshold Stuffe FRuits long preserved on their trees Chap 1 Flowers preserved on their own stallks Chap 2 Fruit-safes or places to preserve fruits conveniently Chap 3 Time to be chosen for preserving such fruits as you lay instore for a great while Chap 4 Manner of gathering fruits and how to dress the stalk to prevent the original cause of their putrefaction Chap 5 Grounds fruits should grow in and be gathered which we lay up Chap 6 Fruits to be shut up close from the air Chap 7 The Ancients shut fruit close in certain vessels and put them in other vessels full of liquor Chap 8 Fruits drenched in honey to make them last for a long time Chap 9 Fruits may belong preserved in ordinary wine sodden wine new wine or else in wine Lees Chap 10 Fruits very well preserved in salt-water Chap 11 Things that may be preserved in Oyl and Lees of Oyl Chap 12 Apples long preserved in Sawdust with leaves chaff and straw Chap 13 Fruits mixed with many things for their preservation Chap 14 Things may be preserved from putrefaction Chap 15 Divers sorts of bread may be made Chap 16 Bread made of roots and fruits Chap 17 Ways to make bread of corn and pulse Chap 18 Bread increased in weight Chap 19 To endure long hunger and thirst Chap 20 Of what fruits wine may be made Chap 21 Vinegar to be made divers ways and of what Chap 22 Defects of wine managed and restored Chap 23 Oyl made of divers things Chap 24 Many sorts of thread may be provided Chap 25 Eggs hatched without a Hen Chap 26 The fifth Book Of changing Metals TO convert Tin into a more excellent Metal Chap 1 Lead into another Metal Chap 2 Brass into a more worthy Metal Chap 3 Iron into a worthier Metal Chap 4 Quick-silver its effects and operations Chap 5 Of Silver Chap 6 Operations necessary for use Chap 7 To make a Metal more weighty Chap 8 To part Metals without Aqua fortis Chap 9 To part Gold or Silver from other Metals with Aqua fortis Chap 10 The sixth Book Of counterfeiting precious Stones SAlts used in the composition of Gems Chap 1 How Fliut or Crystal is to be prepared and how Pastils are boiled Chap 2 The furnace and the parts thereof Chap 3 To make colours Chap 4 How Gems are coloured Chap 5 Gems otherwise made Chap 6 Tinctures of Brystal Chap 7 Making Smalt or Ennamel Chap 8 Smalt of a Rose colour Chap 9 Leaves of Metal to be put under Gems Chap 10 How to be polished Chap 11 Building a furnace for the colouring plates Chap 12 Rays coloured by a mixture of Metals Chap 13 The seventh Book Of the Wonders of the Load-stone IT s Name Kinde and Countrey Chap 1 Natural reason of its attraction Chap 2 The Load-stones opposite poles North South and how they may be known Chap 3 The Stones force sent by a right line from North to South through the length Chap 4 The polar line not stable but moveable Chap 5 The force of North and South vigorous in the points Chap 6 By the touching of other stones those points will not change there forces Chap 7 A Load-stone will draw a Load-stone and drive it from it Chap 8 A sport of the Load-stone Chap 9 The greater the Load stone the greater its force Chap 10 The force of this Stone will pass into other Stones Chap 11 In the Load-stone hairiness is contused Chap 12 The attractive part more violent then the part that drives off Chap 13 Contrary parts of the Stones contrary one to another Chap 14 To know the polar points in the Load-stone Chap 15 The force of drawing and driving off cannot be hindred Chap 16 Make an army of sand to fight Chap 17 Situation makes its vertnes contrary Chap 18 The attractive force of the load-stone may be weighed Chap 19 The Mutual attraction and driving off of the load-stone and of Iron Chap 20 Iron and the load-stone in greater amity then the load-stone is with the load stone Chap 21 The load-stone doth not draw on all parts but at certain points Chap 22 The same load-stone that draws doth on the contrary point drive off the Iron Chap 23 Iron to leap on a table no load-stone being seen Chap 24 The vertue of the load-stone is sent through the pieces of Iron Chap 25 The load-stone within the sphear of its vertue sends it forth without touching Chap 26 The load-stone can hang Iron in the air Chap 27 The forces of the load-stone cannot be hindred by a wall or table coming between Chap 28 A man of wood may row a boat with other conceits Chap 29 A load stone on a plate of Iron will not stirre Iron Chap 30 The Position of the Iron will change the forces