Cover illustration: Excerpt from the frontispiece designed and produced by Thomas Cross, in [John White], A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock’d and open’d, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours. Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. / Collected by J.W. a lover of artificial conclusions. (London: printed for William Whitwood at the sign of the Golden Lion in Duck-Lane near Smith-field, 1668), fourth edition (first published: 1651). Courtesy University of Glasgow Library, Ferguson Collection, Ak – e.31.
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