SECRETS OF ART & NATURE
Written by John Wecker, R. Read
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SECRETS OF ART & NATURE
Written by John Wecker, R. Read.
Stock no. 1830487
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Facsimile of the 1660 edition. Undated. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine reads 'Secrets of Art and Science'. Facsimile title page reads: 'Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature, being The Summe and Sbstance of Naturall Philofophy, Methodically Digefted'. A physical copy of a print on demand book. A nice copy.
Front cover
Contents
- A Summary view of the Whole Work
- BOOK I
- Secrets of God, Nature, Man in General
- BOOK II
- Secrets of Angels, Good and Bad
- BOOK III
- Secrets of the Sun, Moon and Stars, Fire, Ayr, Water and Earth
- BOOK IV
- Secrets of the Internal parts of Man, the Passions, Reason and Memory
- BOOK V
- Secrets of Life and Death, Remedies for all diseases in the body of Man, both internal and external. Old age, eating, drinking, venery, sleep, exercise and beautifying the body
- BOOK VI
- Secrets of Earthly Creatures, tame, of the whole greater, as Horses, Asses, Oxen, Bulls, lesser as Sheep, Bucks, Goats, Hogs, Dogs, of the parts as Bones, Horns and Haire; of wild creatures, greater as Bucks, Bores, Hares, Foxes, Wolves, Lesser as Mice, Moles, Weevils, Ants, Scorpions, Wiglice, Fleas, Lice, creeping things, as snails, caterpillars and serpents
- BOOK VII
- Secrets of Fishes
- BOOK VIII
- Secrets of Birds; as hens, pigeons, peacocks, swallows, bats, pheasants, partridge, turtles, quails, blackbirds, choughs, geese, ducks; insects as bees, drones, wasps, flies, weevils, locusts
- BOOK IX
- Secrets of Plants of Trees in general; more particularly of fruits, leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, woods, shrubs, and plants
- BOOK X
- Secrets of Metals, liquid as quicksilver, hard as gold, silver, brass, iron, soft as lead, tin, antimony, pertaining to metals, as brimstone, vermillion, orpiment, not burning as chrisocolla and salt
- BOOK XI
- Secrets of Glass
- BOOK XII
- Secrets of Jewels, and how to counterfeit all forts whether white, black, red, green, blue; fit or unfit to engrave
- BOOK XIII
- Secrets Artificall; as Houses, Gardens, Fountains, Cloath and Cloathing
- BOOX XIV
- Secrets of Meteors; as Hail, Rain, Snow, Thunder, Lightning, Tempests and the like
- BOOK XV
- Secrets Organicall, as Grammar, Logic, Rhetorick, Poetry, Speaking or Writing
- BOOK XVI
- Secrets of Sciences as natural Magic, Metaphificks, Lawfull and unlawfull, Mathematics, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, Astrology, Politique as Peace and War
- BOOK XVII
- Secrets Mechanical, performed by Millers, Smiths, Bakers, Cooks, Painters and Apothecaries
- BOOK XVIII
- Secrets of Sports, Delights and Recreations