CONTENTS.
Johann Beckmann
Page
Italian Book-keeping
1
Odometer
5
Machine for noting down Music
12
Refining Gold and Silver Ore by Quicksilver
14
Cold or Dry Gilding
19
Gold Varnish
20
Tulips
22
Canary Bird
32
Archil
35
Magnetic Cures
43
Secret Poison
47
Wooden Bellows
63
Coaches
68
Water-clocks, Clepsydras
82
Tourmaline
86
Speaking-trumpet
93
Ananas.—Pine-apple
102
Sympathetic Ink
106
Diving-bell
111
Coloured Glass.—Artificial Gems
123
Sealing-wax
137
Corn-mills
147
Verdigris, or Spanish Green
171
Saffron
175
Alum
180
Falconry
198
Turf
205
Artichoke
212
Saw-mills
222
Stamped Paper
230
Insurance
234
Adulteration of Wine
245
Artificial Pearls
258
Paving of Streets
269
Collections of Natural Curiosities
282
Chimneys
295
Hungary Water
315
Cork
318
Apothecaries
326
Clocks and Watches
340
Clocks and Watches (additional)
355
Quarantine
373
Paper-hangings
379
Kermes. Cochineal
385
Writing-pens
405
Wire-drawing
414
Buck-wheat
425
Saddles
431
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