Human Industry, Title page – Index
HISTORY Of most Manual Arts,
Deducing the Original, Progress, and Improvement of them. Furnished with variety of Instances and Examples, shewing forth the excellency of Humane Wit.
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LONDON, Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Blew-Anchor, in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange. 1661.
To the READERS.
Gentlemen,
THough this Curious Piece you are here presented with, needs neither Preface nor Apologie for its publication, yet I perceive you are now grown to that delicacy or rather state in your Diet, you will not eat without a Taster. Give me leave therefore to acquaint you, That those to whose censure I permitted this Book, before I sent it to the Press, (and in whose Judgement I have some reason to confide) have assured me it hath in it those two Graces of Attraction, Novelty and Excellency in its kind; That the Title (which is a fault you may the more easily pardon, because not often committed) does modestly vail many perfections in the Work it self, in which you have several curious remarkes on Musique, Limning, and other Noble Arts, as well as those that are properly …ermed Manual; and those too so hand…omly treated of, with that excellency of Wit, that fair abundance and variety of judicious reading, that roundness, strength, and dignity of Stile, that you will imagine your selves even amongst the Mechanique Arts, to be conversant in the Liberal. The meanest things are ennobled here by the Expression; and all our Author touches he turns to Gold: So that for what concerns my self, I may confidently affirm, I have in the publication of this Treatise, perform'd an acceptable service to all ingenuous persons: And for the Author, I may adventure to say, He hath by this Work particularly honoured that Art of which he gives you so handsome an account; I mean, The Invention of PRINTING.
The Principal Authors mentioned in this Work.
Abraham Gelnitz.
Aristotle.
Aldovrand.
Athanas: Kircherus.
Apuleius.
Archimedes.
Aul: Gellius.
Augustin.
Aelian.
Baker, Sir Richard.
Bartas.
Bacon Roger.
Bacon, Vic. St Albans.
Busbequius.
THE CONTENTS.
Chap. I.
foreign: or, The Invention of Dials, Clocks, Watches, and other time-tellers. page 1
Chap. II.
foreign: Of some curious Spheres and Representations of the World. 14
Chap. III.
foreign: Of sundry Machins and Artificial Motions, by Water, and A…r. 24
Chap. IV.
foreign: Or the Art and Mystery of Writing, with the Instruments thereunto belonging. 46
Chap. V.
foreign: Of the Mysterie of Printing: Also of Printing-Presses. 62
Chap. VI.
foreign: Or the Art of Limning and Painting: Also of the Plumary Art. 70
Chap. VII.
foreign: Or the Art of Spinning and Weaving; with the several materials of Garments amongst sundry Nations. 84
Chap. VIII.
foreign: Or the Original of Musique, and Instruments thereunto belonging: Also of the power and efficacy of Musique. 102
Chap. IX.
foreign: Or the invention of Glass, and of sundry Glass-works. 133
Chap. X.
foreign: Or the Invention of Shipping and Sayling: Also of the Mariners Compass. 144
Chap. XI.
foreign: Or the Art of Cicuration, or Taming of Wild Beasts. 164
Chap. XII.
foreign: Or certain pretty Knacks and extravagancies of Art. 180
An Index.
A.
AEOlipiles what, and of what use?
Arion wafted to shoar by a Dolphin.
Apelles's Master-piece.
Archimedes a great Mathematician and Engineer.
Inventor of a self-moving Sphere.
Amphitheaters made of Glass.
Argo, Jason's Ship.
Arts, perfected by degrees.
Arras work, where made?
B.
Baboon taught to play on the Guittar.
Beasts of all sorts tamed. delighted with Musique.
Bear playing on a Tabor, and dancing.
Balsas what, and of what use?
Boetius a rare Mathematician▪
Boats made to sayl under water,
made to sail of themselves,
made of a Tortoise shell,
made of Osier or Wicker,
made of Paper or Reeds.
Biting of the Tarantula cured by Musique.
Bellows fill'd with water to blow fire.
C.
Cambricks made at Cambray.
Coco-trees the great benefit of them.
Crow taught to flye at Partridges.
Clocks of curious workmanship.
Chains very curious made by Vulcan.
Corn. van Drebble a great Mechanique or Engineer.
Curracles described by Lucan.
Cicuration, or taming of Wild Beasts.
Christal Glass impatients of heats.
Cloth made of dowle growing upon a shellfish,
made of incombustible flax.
made of a hairy stone called Trichitis or Salamanders wooll,
made of the Barks of Trees,
made of Camels hair, called Camelots,
made of wooll fallen from the sky.
Cloth made clean by throwing it into the fire.
Coaches going with Sails.
Chariots drawn by Lions,
by Tygers,
by Staggs,
by Dogs,
by Estriches,
by Elephants,
moved by Sails.
D.
Dials invented by Anaxamenes, made with Heliotrope flowers.
Dolphins made use of to catch fish.
Deer used for the Saddle.
Dove artificial made to fly.
Devil hater of Musique.
Damask-works.
Dancing Horses.
E.
Eagles taught to fly at fowl.
Eagle artificial made to fly.
Eloquence, the great force and power of it.
Erasmus his Spherical Ring.
Elephants taught to dance, and how.
Very docil, and taught to perform sundry Offices.
Estriches put to draw a Coach.
F.
Flavio of Amalphi, first inventor of the Mariners compass.
Feather works of rare Art.
Fish Nautilus, first Type of a Ship.
Flea with a chain about her neck.
Fossil and fulfil glasses.
Fishes affected with Musique.
G.
Glass where made, and whereof.
Glass Galley.
Glass chains.
Glass Organs.
Glasses made to burn Ships.
Glass made malleable.
Grograms made of Coats hair.
Garments made of feathers.
H.
Hours, so named from Horus Apollo.
Horses taught to dance.
Hydrautick Organs,
Heavens artificial.
I.
Instrument of perpetual motion invented by Van Drebble.
Incombustible Flax.
Iron Spider made to move like a natural one.
Iron mill that one could carry about him▪
L.
Leopards taught to run at Deer like Greyhounds.
Linnen the general wear of Priests.
Limning or Painting how begun.
Letters invented by the Phoenicians.
Lions tamed for several offices.
Loadstone described by Claudian, very useful by Land and by Sea, comparable to all the pretious stones in the world.
Locks of curious work.
Lute, why called Testudo.
Looking-glasses, some strange feats to be done by them.
Load-stars, which they be.
Looms weaving Webs of themselves.
M.
Musique the first Invention of it,
the power and efficacy of it,
upon men and beasts,
upon good and bad Angels,
in curing diseases of body and mind,
in corrupting manners, or reforming.
Memnon's Statue Musical.
Mariners Compass, by whom invented.
Mills of Segovia, Tholouse, and Dantzick, admirable.
Mill of Iron that one could carry in his sleeve.
Monky very skilful at Chess-play.
Moon inhabited.
Mosaic work, what it is.
Myrons brasen Cow.
N.
Navigation a bold Art.
Navigation very imperfect before the invention of the Compass.
Navigation by land, and under water.
O.
Organs tuned by the motion of water,
by the Sun-beams.
Opsidian glass, what kind.
Orpheus his powerful Musique.
Ovid's Pen preserved.
Organ Pipes made of Glass,
made of Alablaster.
Otters taught to drive fish into the net.
P.
Parrot taught to sing the Gam-ut.
Painting or Limning a useful and delightful Art.
Plumary art what it is.
Pictures made of feathers.
Pictures highly valued.
Panthers tamed for hunting.
Picture called Deaths-dance.
Printing, where invented.
Printing-Presses.
Paper made of seggs or rushes,
made of lint and rags.
R.
Rare shews on the Roman Amphith…aters.
Roger Bacon a great Mathematician.
Reversus, a fish used to catch fish withal.
S.
Sea-dial; See Mariners Compass.
Spiders in the Summer Islands making silk.
Spider of Iron moving like the natural.
Sybarits horses taught to dance.
Sailing Coaches.
Sailing by stars before the invention of the Compass.
Sailing in Taprobana by the direction of birds.
Ships with Gardens and Orchards on the tops.
Ship first invented by Jason among the Grecians.
Silk-worm first brought into Europe.
Sea-silk.
Silk whether any vegetable or growing upon trees.
Spiders tissue admirable.
Spit to turn by a Sail, by the motion of Air.
Spheares representing the heavenly bodies and motions.
Specular stone what it was.
Statues vocal.
Salamanders wooll, what it is.
T.
Thermo-meters, or Weather glasses.
Travelling by the direction of Stars.
Tortoise shell used for a house and a boat.
Tortoise shell first pattern of a Lute.
Triton artificial, sounding a Trumpet.
Tredeskins Ark.
Tyrians the best Navigators.
V.
Velvets and Sattins made of the bark of the Palm tree.
Vulcans chains very subtile.
Venus rising out of the Sea, was Apelles his master-piece.
W.
Waggon and Oxen of glass, that a Fly could cover with her wings.
Weaving by whom invented.
Water-works of sundry sorts.
Watches made in the collet of a Ring, hanging at Ladies eares.
Weather-glasses of what use.
Wind-motions, sundry instances.
Writing an excellent invention.
Writing in lead and brass,
in rocks and stones,
in leaves and barks of trees,
in cedar and box,
in waxen tables.
Writing in short hand, by whom invented.
Writing with the feet.
Wooll, whether growing upon trees.
Wooll rain'd from the sky made into cloth.
Wooden Palace of Henry VIII.
Z.
Ziglography what, and of what use.
Zeuxes his picture of an old woman deceived by a painted curtain.