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A06780	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.; Traité des feux artificiels pour la guerre, et pour la recreation. English	Malthus, Francis.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1629 (1629)	STC 17217; ESTC S109781	49,979	283

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 MALTHVS Printed for RICHARD HAVVKINS and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancerie lane neere to Serieants Inne 1629. A TREATISE OF ARTIFICIALL FIREWORKES by F Malthus LONDON for Richard Hawkins in Chancery Lane 1629 THE PREFACE Apologetique to the Reader ALthough that Warres haue beene authorized by the diuine powers as witnesseth the new and old Testament yet me thinkes I heare many nice peeuish and ignorant braines blaming me for setting downe to the view of the world at a few leisurely houres so many wayes and inuentions how to corrupt and destroy what nature and art striue to make edifie and conserue to whom I answer they haue the same reason to exclaim against iustice which hath found and ordained many meanes to abolish and exterminate wicked offenders for my intention is here but onely to finde inventions to confound and ruinate Rebells and their habitations that afterward Empires Kingdomes and Common-wealths may the better liue in peace and tranquilitie and what more is I haue set downe perspicuously this Treatise of Fire-workes which many heretofore haue written with confusion and great danger having pend large Volumes with most ample and idle discourses touching this subiect whose names for modesties sake I will not here set downe with an infamous character to posteritie as Master Robert Norton hath done some few slight offenders names in the Preface to his translation of Vianos works which he calleth his owne hauing onely added seuen figures taken out of Thybourels booke and transposing the Authours workes to disguise it that I bee not accounted amongst the calumniators of this age who write with serpents tongues spitting their venome vpon the silent and sleepi●g innocents gone before vs. But I will onely shew their errors in generall that the learners may the better auoyde them For in some you shall see prescribed all sorts of Apothecaries drugges for the compounding of Fire-workes which are no more capable of fire then stones earth or mettle as Adamant-stone Verdigrease Cristall Vitrioll Salarmoniacke Sublime Mercurie with a number of the like which in the iudgement of ignorants may produce in Fire-workes wonderfull effects In others you shall finde the coniunctions of combustible materials in such a sort or manner disposed and ordered to such strange ends that you would say they were set downe to make the Reader laugh rather then for seruice of Fire-workes eyther for Warres or Recreation as the meanes how to poyson an Armie in the wide Field by the smoake of an artificiall Ball is it not to be thought a very prettie imagination or else that the Ball ought to bee somewhat bigge and afterward which is more ridiculous you shall finde in the same Authours the same ingredients and mixtures prescribed for Fireworks for Pleasure and Recreation which to mee seemes strange that the Fire-workes whose smoakes are so venemous even as to poyson Armies in the open Fields shall bee also fit to burne in the middle of a Cittie or Towne amongst thousands of people for Recreations now all these idle conceites with a number of the like are printed in many new and recent bookes the Authours whereof doubtlesse haue set downe all these ridiculous inventions by ignorance thinking them good and not of purpose for spight and therefore they doe deserue pittie rather then blame as well as Master ROBERT NORTON who hath erred onely in attributing another mans workes and faults to bee his owne and what is it that giues mee cause to thinke that all these haue erred by ignorance is because that all their workes are alike where that they doe speake of Fire-workes But reading these absurdities with a great quantitie of others which made mee take resolution to set my penne to paper and shew to posteritie how and what way to auoyde their errours having heere set downe the true rules and mixtures required for Fire-workes both for VVarres and Recreation with some few Geometricall obseruations necessarie for the practise of Fireworkes in warres and also I haue added vnto it certaine rules and maximes of Fortifications very requisite for Enginiers to haue in their memorie with a compendious Arithmetike hauing written the whole first in French at some broken houres whilest I followed the warres and bringing certaine coppies from the Presse to my speciall and very good friends at whose requests I haue translated the same into English that others might not translating it mistake my meaning and the worke being already but of small commendations they to make it of lesser Adiew London the 22. of May. 1629. To the Authour THy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame And represents strange fires of differēt sorts Suted to Martiall vse Courtly sports So pleasing that great Kings haue spar'd some houres To be spectators of thy golden showres The Thames and Seyne haue seen thy Balons fly From their affrighted bosomes to the skye Swift beyond all beliefe as if thy ayme Were to restore Prometheus theft againe Were when their force seems spent breaking asunder They rain down stars or els outroar the thunder The Roman Apotheosis I deeme Would still haue had a reuerent esteeme If they had vs'd these miracles of fire To mount their Caesars soules beare thē higher Then Eagles flight but now they serue to raise The Pyramis and Trophe of thy praise And sure thou hast attain'd sufficient glory In perfecting the Pyrotecnique story Which some tooke vpon trust by concealing Their creditors made borowing to seem stealing But their fire 's out now thine hath pass'd the Presse For greater fires do extinguish lesse WILLIAM BASTIAN studious in Mathematicks A TREATISE OF FIRE-WORKES for Warre CHAP. I. TO imitate nature our first and chiefest teacher who far from error seemes to haue produced and brought forth all things ●y a curious and speciall order without whose beautifull disposi●●on on the whole world had still con●●nued in the most prodigious con●●sion of Caos which displeased the ●●●ure aspect of the highest eternall and divine powers being but a cloud or mixture of darknesse My intention is here to institute and obserue an order treating of euery thing one after another in his proper and conuenient place beginning with artificiall Fire-workes as the chiefest and principall cause which hath vrged me to take my penne in hand the description of those which belong to warres shall obtaine the first place and next the Fire-workes for recreation or pleasure passing from these to many pleasing Geometricall obseruations aswell of Mecanical obseruation as by the sines tangents succents ioyning to them a most easie succent method to fortifie all places regularly and irregularly And to conclude I will adde many briefe and instructiue Arithmeticall examples Now to begin with the Fire-workes for warres I will

the saucissō may take fire so shal yo● not faile of your intent or designe CHAP. 11. How to make Stoupel or preparing of your Cotten wieke TO make Stoupell not the meanest but the best that may be made to giue fire which in ●per tearme is called estoupel●●g to all manner of fire-workes 〈◊〉 Cotten-wieke and double it ●oft as shall bee needfull for your 〈◊〉 as if it were to estoupel your fie●ances then double it eight or ten ●●es and also for the stoupeling of great rockets but if it bee to 〈◊〉 through your starres then 4. 〈◊〉 threds shall suffice so hauing do● led your cotten wieke fitting for yo● purpose steepe it in faire water 〈◊〉 then wring it betweene your han● and take gunpowder dust witho●● other mixture and steepe it in 〈◊〉 water not putting too much wat●● nor too little but onely till it app● like durt and then put into it 〈◊〉 cotten wieke and there turning a● winding it till it hath sufficiently 〈◊〉 powder in euery place and 〈◊〉 cell then draw it out putting a 〈◊〉 dry dust vpon it hang it a dry● in the sunne or els-where and 〈◊〉 being dry you shall haue the 〈◊〉 excellent stoppel that may bee ma● for your vse at al times leaving 〈◊〉 all such ingredients which ignora●● ●●●●eme so highly of as Aqua-vitae 〈◊〉 wine strong lee quick-lime ●ger vrine and diuers others for ●ich I would not lose so much 〈◊〉 time as to repeat them but 〈◊〉 goe forward and shew how to 〈◊〉 all the parts of a rocket CHAP. XII The manner how to assemble and set together the parts of a rocket 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 This method is fit for all sorts of rockets great ones or little ones except that little ones must haue the vpper cartoush no bigger then the rocket onely to hold halfe a dozen of starres or serpents or one saucisson for so much as many beeing fired together great confusion would happen if great rockets should bee put together and not prepared otherwise CHAP. XIII How to represent diuers sorts of figures in the Ayre with Rockets THe first and most rarest is a tree or fountaine and is made putting many little rockets vpon one great rocket passing all the rodes of the little ones through the large cartoush of the great rocket and if the little rockets take fire while the great one is mounting vp they will represent a tree but if they take fire when the great rocket is turning downe againe towards the ground then they will bee like to a fountaine of fire and if there bee two or three little rockets hauing no rods amongst others they will make divers motions contrarie to the rest most pleasing The second figure is the golden rayne and that is made when manie quils filled as aforesaid are put vpon a great rocket for certainelie all those quills taking fire will seeme like a great shower of fierie rayne to those who are vnder it but to those who are a side of like beautifull long haire The third figure are Starres which are represented putting onelie manie Starres vpon a great rocket The fourth are serpents which are alreadie described but to make all these prescribed figures varie you may tye manie little ones together by the ends which take not fire the quils or serpents may bee tyed in like manner but the thread wherewithall they are tyed must be at least two or three inches long betwixt each one and you shall see diuers sorts of figures in the ayre changing themselues into much varietie CHAP. XIV How to make fierie boxes THe fire-boxes are made of many rockets being put into a large cartoush the bottome whereof is couered with powder dust and pierced in the middle to passe through a port fire or stoupell to giue fire to the rockets within the cartoush or coffin which flying out leaue the cartoush most commonly whole and vncracked those boxes are onely to be cou●red with a peece of paper that the rockets taking fire may flie out without resistance and the reason why they are to bee couered is because if manie be made one neere to another they should not take fire all at once CHAP. XV. How to make fierie Lances THe vse of these lances is alwaies required in all great fireworkes wherefore here shall be described the manner of their making Their cartoushes are to be made as other cartoushes for rockets onely these may be made of pastbord and glued as they are a rowling if it bee to make great ones but if for little ones then paper shall suffice the cartoushes being made let them be filled with the dry composition prescribed for starres in the 8. chapter of this treatise and prime them with wet gun powder the lower end of the cartoush is commonly stopped with a peece of wood to the end that they may bee nayled or stucke when they shall bee needfull the wood being about two inches long out of the cartoush CHAP. XVI The manner how to make Rockets for the water TAke fire water being two elements of contrary qualities the one to the other cause the rockets which worke their effects in or vpon the water to appeare to the spectators more beautifull and seem more rare and admirable although that all sorts of rockets being fired will worke their effects vpon or vnder the water but this onelie is to be noted that those which are made for the ayre or for the ground haue such strength and force that beeing once kindled and cast into the water they will consume themselues there and not rise vp swimming as those which are made artificially for the water as followeth To make good rockets for the water the calliber of the mould