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A65095	A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1686 (1686)	Wing V598; ESTC R21854	60,337	192

c. were first brought to perfection in England by the aforesaid Mr. Hook Antonio Bonele an Italian first taught the English to Spin with a Destaffe in the twentieth year of King Henery the seventh Fine Spanish-Needles were first made in England in the Reign of Queen Mary by a Negro in Cheapside who refused to communicate his Art but in the Eighth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Elias Corous a German made it known to the English The first English Coach-Maker is Recorded to be Walter Ripon who in the year 1564 made a Coach for the Earl of Rutland and a hollow turning Coach in the year 1585 for Queen Elizabeth In the Tenth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign Richard Dryer brought into England the Invention of making Earthen Fire-pots Furnaces transportable Ovens for baking Earthen ware and had the first sole profit by Pattent in the year 1555. Making of Eopperas was first practised in England by Cornelius de Voss a Merchant in the year 1587. William Saunders a Fishmonger was the first that brought our Coelestial and Terestial Globes to perfection William Mathews in the Fifth year of Queen Elizabeth was the first English Artist that made fine Knives and Hafts marked with the Half Moon for the Propriety of which he had the Queens Paten About the same time the way of making Pins was found out by the English which before were brought in by Strangers to the value of 60000 Pound a year One Bourass made first the Engine for Scale-Boards One Ross is reported to have made the First Bandore in England and to this day that called the Ross Viol is accounted the best The Engine for Clock-Wheels is an English Invention of about one hundred years standing as likewise that for the speedy cutting down Wheels for Watches Chaines for Watches is said to be the Invention of one Mr. Tomackee The First Inventor of Knitting of Worsted Stoekings in England was William Rider a London Apprentice who in the Reign of King James the First presented a paire of his own Knitting to the Earl of Pembrooke The late serviceable Moddel of Shipping is affirmed to be the Invention or Direction of the Famous Sir Walter Raleigh Other late Inventions there are to whom as their Inventors the English lay claime as an Engine for raising Glass an Engine for Spinning Glass an Engine for Cutting Tobacco the Rouling Press the Art of Damasking Linnen and Watering of Silks the way of seperating Gold from Silver and Brass Boulting Mills Makeing Caine Chaires the curious Art of Colouring and Marbling of Books makeing of Horn ware and the Engine to Extinguish Fire and the like Thus Reader it apears that the Industery of our Predecessors was great whereby they brought so many Rarities to perfection and left their further Improvement to Posterity FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by John Harris at the Harrow against the Church in the Poultrey 1 A Discourse of Divine Providence 1. In General That there is a Providence exercised by God in the World 2. In Particular How all Gods Providences in the World are in order to the good of his People By the late Learned Divine Stephen Charnock B. D. sometimes Fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon. Price Bound 3 s. 2 COme and Welcome to Jesus Christ Or a plain and profitable Discourse on John 6. Verse 37. Shewing the Cause Truth and manner of the coming of a Sinner to Jesus Christ with his happy Reception and blessed Entertainment Prince Bound 1 s. 3 A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane Wherein several great and weighty things are handled As the Nature of Prayer and of Obedience to the Law with how far it obliges Christians and wherein it consists Wherein is also shed the equally deplorable condition of the Pharisee or Hypocritical Self-righteous Man and of the Publicane or Sinner that lives in Sin and in open violation of the Divine Laws Together with the Way and Method of God's Free-Grace in Pardoning Penetent Sinners proving that he justifies them by imputing Christs Righteousness to them Price Bound 1 s. 4 SIghs from Hell Or The Groans of a Damned Soul Discovering from the 16th of Luke the Lamentable state of the Damned And may fitly serve as a Warning-Word to Sinners both Old and Young by Faith in Jesus Christ to avoid the same place of Torment With a Discovery of the Usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe Conduct for avoiding the Torments of Hell All three by John Bunyon Author of the Pilgrims Progress Price Bound 1 s. 5 THe Saints Comfort in all but more especially in Evil Times Drawn from Twelve several Texts of Scripture which are briefly explained in this small Piece By T. G. Minister of the Gospel Price Bound 1 s. 6 THE True Fortune-Teller Or Guide to Knowledge Discovering the whole Art of Chyromancy Physiognomy Metoposcopy and Astrology Containing 1. A Discription of the Planets their power and influence over the Bodies of Men Women and Children 2. Of the several Lines Mounts Marks Angles and sacred Characters in the Hand and Wrist and by what Planets they are Governed as to good or bad Fortune 3. Of Physiognomy 4. Observations on the Eyes Eye-brows Nose Ears Chin Neck Hair Beard and Face 5. Metoposcopy or the signification of the Lines in the Face 6. Of Moles and their significations 7. Of Dreams and their Interpretations 8. Of Nativities and their Calculation 9. Of the Rod by which hidden Treasure is found 10. Of Marriages and at what time any Person shall be Married 11. Rules to know the danger of Death 12. Of good and bad Days 13. The manner of Resolving doubtful Questions as to Friends Marriages places of Abode Health Prosperity or Adversity Love or Business 14. Of Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune 15. Of the good and bad days in each Month relating to Health To which is added Aristoteles Observations of the Heavens their motion Of Firy Metors Thunder Lightning Eclipses Commets Earth-quakes and Whirl-winds Illustrated with several proper Figures Price Bound 1 s. 7 A Directory for Midwives or a guide for Women in their Conception Bearing and Suckling their Children The first part contains 1. The Anatomy of the vessels of Generation 2. The Formation of the Child in the Womb. 3. What hinders conception and its remedies 4. what furthers conception 5. A guide for women in conception 6. Of miscarriage in women 7. A guide for women in their Labor 8. A guide for women in their Lying in 9. Of Nursing children by Nicholas Culpepper Price Bound 3 s.

press the Wine out of the Grape as Saturn did in Italy Some would have it to be Icarins the Father of Penelope that found the virtue of the Grape in Athens who is reported to have been slain by the Husbandmen when they were Drunk Atheneus in one place writeth that Orestus Son to Dencalion first discovered the Vine about Mount Aetna in Sicily In another place he sayes that it was found in the City Plinthina in Aegypt Aruntes a Tirrhen banished out of his Countrey by Lucinon whom he brought up of a Child carried the first Wine into France But before all these Noah was the first that either Tilled the Land or Planted the Vineyard and when that he had tasted too much of the Fruit of the Grape he was Drunk Wine Taverns were set up first by the Lydians a people of Asia which also found out and invented divers Games Staphylus as Pliny saith was the first that allayed Wine But for all these generally entertained Opinions the Poets will have Bacchus to be the first deviser and God of it and that he taught those Countries how to make Ale of Barley which had no Grapes growing into this Drink the Germans afterwards put Hops and called it Beer The Winds were first observed by Aeolus as 't is reported from the prognostication of the Inhabitants of the Islands about Sicily who by the smoak of the said Isles three dayes before were said to know what Winds they should have Aeolus for his great insight into the Nature of them hath by the general consent of Poets the Dominion over them attributed to him The Winds as some divide them are said to be four according to the four principal Regions of the Aire those that are more curious in their search and inquiry of their Natures will have them to be no less then eight And especially one Andronicus Corestes who Builded a Terret in Athens and set on every side of it the Images of the Winds graven against the Rigion whence the Winds came they were placed on Pillars of Marble and in the middle he set a Brazen Image of Triton which he had made so that it would turn with a Gust and stand with its Face towards the Wind that blew being so devised as to point with a Rod to the Image of the said Wind which hath been since imitated and used in most Countries for 't is an usual custome to set up Weather-cocks or Fans to show out of what Quarter the Wind bloweth The seven Wise Men of Greece who lived as one saith when there was a scarcity of Wisedom were as followeth Bias he was born in the Haven Town of Prieane in the Countrey of Jonia Solon was of the Island of Salamine Chilo was of Lacedemonia Cleobolus had his birth at Lindus in the Isle of Rhodes Pittacus was of Mitylene in the Isle of Lesbes Thales received his first breath at Miletum in Greece the last of them was Periander King of Corinth The wonders of the World were reputed seven of the same number of the Wise men of Greece The first were of the Walls of Babylon built by Semeramis of stone joyned together with a strange kind of slimy and gluish Morter which grew in the Mines of those Countryes and especially in the Lake where stood in time past Sodome and Gomorrah now called Asfatilda These walls according to the Town were built in a quadrangle and contained in circuit as saith Pliny in the 26th chapter of his sixt Book 60 miles so that every square was fifteen miles long they were 200 foot high and 15 foot thick To build these walls were hired by Semiramis out of divers Countryes for a long space 300000 men The Second was the Pillar of the Sun offered by the Gentiles unto Jupiter This Pillar stood in the Isle of Rhodes and was made of Iron in the form of a man of incredible greatness insomuch that a man could scarce Fadom the great finger thereof After it had stood 56 years it fell down by reason of an Earthquake and so lay till the Island was won by the Souldan of Aegypt who carried as much mettall away as loaded 900 Camels The Third were the Obelisci or the Piramids of Aegypt of which we have already discoursed The Fourth was the Mansoleum of Mansolus King of Caria Husband to Artimesia this woman for the great love she had to his Memory burnt his body drunk his ashes beaten to a powder thinging no Sepulcher so worthy of him as her own body the remainder of the powder which she found it impossible for her to drink she buried in his Famous Tomb. This Monument was of a most excellent kind of Marble it was 411 feet in circute and 25 cubits high it was invironed with 36 Pillars most curiously carved The Fifth was the Temple of Diana at Ephesus of which in ' its proper place we have also discoursed more at large The Sixt was the Image of Jupiter Olympus in Achia all of Porphyry an infinite number of little pieces being wonderfully joyned together this Statue or Image besides the excellency of the work was more especially admired for the greatness thereof and was the more Famous by reason that the Games called the Olympiades were there kept The Seventh was the Tower Pharos nigh to Alexandria in Aegypt built by Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Aegypt to direct the Passengers which way to approach the Haven thereabouts by burning of pitch or other light materials This Tower was of a marvelous height and of singular Workmanship the building whereof cost according to our Money 4800000 Crowns some Authors set down for the Eight Wonders the Gardens and Orchards upon the walls of Babylon AN APPENDIX Rare Inventions peculiarly attributed to England and English-men MASONS Carving in Stone and erecting statly Piles with the like Materials The Art of curious Painting and Glazing with Glass now in use were First shewed to the English by one Joanes A Benedictine in the year of Christ 728. and since by Improvement brought to the perfection they are at present found to be in The Famous Invention of Printing being found out in Germany was First brought into England by William Caxton a Mercer who in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth kept a Printing-House in Westminster Abby by the Permission of Simon Islip Abbot of that Place and the First Book there Printed was Tullies Offices Coaches were Invented by Monsieur Pedarus a French-man and brought into England in the year 1559. though Charriots are of a longer standing Watches were the Invention of a German and the Invention brought into England Anno 1580. The Famous Inventers and Improvers were Cornelius Van Dreble and Janus Torrianellus the first Clocks were brought into England much about the same time The Pendulum was Invented by Mr. Hook Fellow of the Royal Society Famous in the Mathematicks and Mechanical Improvement All sorts of Optiek-Glasses and Tubes as the Telescope the Invention of the Famous Galileo the Microscope