• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Mechanic powers; or the mystery of nature and art unvail'd. Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanic engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little Strength or 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 Mechanic use, and the making of Clock-Work, and other Engines. A Work Pleasant and Profitable for all sorts of Men, from the highest to the lowest Degree: And never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprized in Ten Books, and illustrated with Copper-Cuts. By Ven. Mandey, Philomat
  • Other titles: Mechanick powers
  • Contributor: Mandey, Venterus [Author];
  • imprint: London: printed for Tho. Shelmerdine, at the Rose-Tree, in Little-Britain, [1709]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([12],315,[5]p.,plates); 4°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Mechanical engineering Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: A reissue of the 1696 edition, with a cancel titlepage
    English Short Title Catalog, T100827
    Price from imprint: Price Bound, 6s. Mathematic Books Sold
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    With an advertisement leaf before the titlepage