The mysteries of nature and art in four severall parts. The first of water-works. The second of fier-works. The third of drawing, colouring, limming, paynting, graving, and etching. The fourth of experiments
John Bate's 1654 London compendium of mechanical and natural secrets, printed by R. Bishop for A. Crook, gathers instructions for water-works, fire-works, drawing and experiments for a general reading public of curious tinkerers. Its woodcut diagrams show plainly labelled apparatus such as a lidded cylindrical vessel with a funnel and tap, a lever-operated pump beside a tapped cistern, a hand-cranked bellows-like machine, and a sealed tank with a funnel. Designers may borrow their spare line, lettered reference marks, and hatched cylinders for technical diagrams.
