Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested - illustrated with fifty-six copper plates (1758) (14781883125)

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Title: Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... : illustrated with fifty-six copper plates

Year: 1758 (1750s)

Authors: Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750 Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 Hitch, Charles, d. 1764 Hawes, Lacy

Subjects: Arts Industrial arts

Publisher: London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-Row : J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street : and L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's Inn

Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Ink. Grind Spanifli green with liquid var-nifh, or linfeed oil; and after the fame manner you may makea printers blue, by grinding azure with linfeed o\l. To take Ink out of printed books or pielures. Wet it with theluice of lemon, and the Ink will difappear. Spirit of vitriol willdo the fame. INSPIRATION, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a glitter-ing ray in a frar-light night, darting at the bread of a young manin yellow ; his hair knotted, mixed with ferpents; looking upto heaven, holding in one hand a naked fword, the point to theground, and a fun-flower in the other. The ftarry (ky fignifiesthe grace of God infpiring the mind ; the hair, &c. that a finnercan have only brutifn and horrid thoughts ; looking upwards,that without grace and infpiration the mind cannot be elevatedabove earthly things. The heliotrope denotes that, as it always tuins all O* t;:hecs,re-nd in:cd :tle hisjt- afsto fes, ichor- dleouCnto /ithandakefter arernd,ittleoals the lod ; firfl s. leof car-

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INS 2^ turns towards the fun, fo a finner, once infphedj turns with allafFedion towards God. INSTITUTION, is reprefented, in painting, Sec. hv a wo*man, holding in her hand a Httle bafket with fwallows in it;which, they fay, is the hieroglyphic of Inftitution among theEgyptians, from tlie benefit given to mortals by Ofyris and Ceres,from whom they received the laws of living well, and the pre-cepts of tilling the ground ; Ofyris was taken for Jupiter, andCeres the goddefs of coin. 77^^ names of the principal INSTRUMENTS that are iifed inthe art of making glafs. See plate III. The hollow pipe, markedA, ferves to blow the glafs; it ought to be of iron, with a littlewooden handle on the top. The rod, marked B, ought to be of iron, but not hollow; thisferves to take up the glafs after it is blown, and cut off the for-mer, fo that there remains nothing to do to it, but to perfect it. The fciflbrs, marked C, are thofc which Icrve to cut the glafswhen it comes off from the firft hollow iron,

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