Natural magick / by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1554:14.

Standardized Title:

Magiæ natvralis libri viginti. English. 1658

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Industrial arts--Early works to 1800.

Industrial arts.

Home economics.

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered pages, 409, that is, 405 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed ..., 1658.

Contents:

(from t.p.) 1. Of the causes of wonderful things

2. Of the generation of animals

3. Of the production of new plants

4. Of increasing houshold stuff

5. Of changing metals

6. Of counterfeiting gold

7. Of the wonders of the load-stone

8. Of strange cures

9. Of beautifying women

10. Of distillation

11. Of perfuming

12. Of artificial fires

13. Of tempering steel

14. Of cookery

15. Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c.

16. Of invisible writing

17. Of strange glasses

18. Of statick experiments

19. Of pneumatick experiments

20. Of the chaos.

Notes:

Engraved added t.p.

Numerous errors in paging.

Imperfect: p. 337-344 stained with loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 1554:14)

Cited in:

Wing P2982

OCLC:

13388276