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Mechanick-powers: or, the mistery of nature and art unvail'd Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength, force; and also the making of machines, or engines, for raising of water, draining of grounds, and several other uses. Together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work, and other engins. A work pleasant and profitalbe for all sorts of men, from the hightst to the lowest degree: and never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprised in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts. By Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon, Philomat
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Mechanick-powers: or, the mistery of nature and art unvail'd [electronic resource] : Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength, force; and also the making of machines, or engines, for raising of water, draining of grounds, and several other uses. Together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work, and other engins. A work pleasant and profitalbe for all sorts of men, from the hightst to the lowest degree: and never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprised in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts. By Ven. Mandey and J. Moxon, Philomat.
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London : printed for the authors, and sold by Ven. Mandey, next door to the Salmon in Bloomsbery Market, and James Moxon at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, [1696?]
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[12], 315, [5] p., 16 leaves of plate : (metal cuts)
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Contents: pp. [5-12].
Final three leaves contain advertisement and errata.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1870:7)
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Mechanick-powers
Mechanick powers.
Mistery of nature and art unvailed.
Early English books online.
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English
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July 19, 2020
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Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M419
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