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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59260	A book of perspective & geometry, being the ABC, and first degree of all good art The learning of which comprehendeth in it many notable arts, needfull and necessary for every artificer and workman. For as no perspective workman can make any work without architecture, so neither can the architecture without perspective. Which perspective is inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. ... And seing [sic] perspective art is nothing without geometry, they are both bound together, that the workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. And forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof. This second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of perspective, touching the superficies, translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, ...; Tutte l'opere d'architettura. Book 2. English	Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2623; ESTC R223996	29,522	24

make these lights shining through of divers colours and first I will speak of a sure colour which is like a to Zaphir and yet somewhat fairer Take a piece of Salamoniack and put it into a Barbers Basen or such like thing and put water into it then bruise it softly therein till it be all molten alwayes putting more water unto it as you desire to have it light or sad colour which done if you will have it faier and clear then straine it through a fine cloth into another vessell and then it will be a clear Celestiall blew whereof you may make divers kinds of blew with water Will you make an Emerauld colour then put some Saffron as you will have it pale or high coloured for here it is not necessary to prescribe you any weight or measure for that experience will teach you how to doe it If you will make a Rubby colour if you be in a place where you may have red Wine then you need not use any other thing but to make it pall with water as need requireth but if you can get no Wine then take Brasill beaten to powder and put it into a Kettell of water with Allum let it seeth and scum it well then straine it and use it with Water and Vineger If you will counterfeit a Ballays you must make it of red and white Wine mingled together but white Wine alone will shew like a Topaz or a Crisolite The Conduit or common water being strained will be like a Diamond and to doe this well you must upon a glassie ground frame certaine points or tablets and fill them with water The manner to set these shining colours in their places is thus Behind the painted house wherein these painted colours shall stand you must set a thin board cut out in the same manner that these lights shall be placed whether it be round or square cornered of ovale like an Egge and behinde the same board there shall be another stronger board laid flat behind them for the bottles and other manner of glasses with these waters to stand in must be placed against the holes as it shall necessarily fall out but they must be set fast lest they fall with leaping and dancing of the Moriscoes And behind the glasses you must set great Lamps that the light may also be stedfast and if the bottels or other vessells of glasse on the side where the light stands were flat or rather hollow it would rather shew the clearer and the colours most excellent and faire the like must be done with the holes on the shortning side But if you need a great light to shew more then the rest then set a torch behind and behind the torch a bright Bason the brightnesse wereof will shew like the beams of the Sun You may also make glasse of all colours and formes some foure-square some with crosses and any other forme with their light behind them Now all the lights serving for the colours shall not be the same which must light the Scene for you must have a great number of torches before the Scene You may also place certaine candlesticks above the Scene with great Candles therein and above the Candlesticks you may place some vessells with water wherein you may put a piece of Camphir which burning will shew a very good light and smell well Sometime it may chance that you must make something or other which should seem to burn which you must wet throughly with excellent good Aquavite and setting it it on fire with a Candle it will burn all over and although I could speak more of these fires yet this shall suffice for this time and I will speak of some things that are pleasing to the beholders The while that the Scene is empty of personages then the workman must have certaine Figures or formes ready of such greatnesse as the place where they must stand will afford them to be which must be made of past-board cut out round and painted signifying such things as you will which Figures must leane against a rule or lath of wood crosse over the Scene where any gate door or way is made and there some one or other behind the door must make the Figures passe along sometime in forme of Musitians with Instruments and some like singers and behind the Scene some must play on upon certaine Instruments and sing also Sometime you must make a number of footmen and horsemen going about with Trumpets Pifes and Drums at which time you must play with Drums Trumpets and Pifes c. very softly behind which will keep the peoples eyes occupied and content them well If it be requisite to make a Planet or any other thing to passe along in the Aire it must be framed and cut out of past-board then in the hindermost and back part of the houses of the Scene there must be a piece of wire drawn above in the roofe of the house and made fast with certaine rings behind to the past-board painted with a Planet or any other thing that shall be drawn softly by a man with a black thred from one end to the other but it must be far from mens sight that neither of the threds may be seen Sometime you have occasion to shew thunder and lightning as the play requireth then you must make thunder in this manner Commonly all Scenes are made at the end of a great Hail whereas usually there is a Chamber above it wherein you must roule a great Bullet of a Cannon or of some other great Ordnance and then counterfeit Thunder Lightning must be made in this manner there must be a man placed behind the Scene or Scaffold in a high place with a box in his hand the cover whereof must be full with holes and in the middle of that place there shall be a burning Candle placed the box must be filled with powder of vernis or sulphire and casting his hand with the box upwards the powder flying in the Candle will shew as if it were Lightning But touching the beams of the Lightning you must draw a piece of wire over the Scene which must hang downwards whereon you must put a squib covered over with pure gold or shining lattin which you will and while the Bullet is rouling you must shoot of some piece of Ordinance and with the same giving fire to the squibs it will work the effect which is desired It would be overlong if I should speak of all things which are to be used in these affaires therefore I will leave speaking of Perspective things FINIS