The Hartlib Papers

Title:Title Page In Scribal Hand ?, New & Rare Inventions By Isaac De Caus, Transl. John Leake
Dating:1659
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                  New & rare Inventions
Shewing
     The easiest Wayes to raise Water higher then the Springe By which Invention the perpetuall Motion is proposed, many hard labours performed & varieties of sounds produced./
     A worke both commodious and advantagious for the common Wealth in generall, & delightfull for all ingenious noble minded and industrious persons in perticular./
           First written in French
                   By Isaac de Caus a late famous
                     Engineer.
           And now translated into English by
                                Iohn Leake.
                         Professour of the Mathematicks
                                              London
[Hartlib:]
                    London
                     1659./
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[hand Y:]           Title Pages
[upside down, another hand:]
         Extract of letter, written to Mr Hartlib.