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thinking that it is done by enchantment, and yet is 

 done by no other means but by good arts and lawful.&quot; 

 Thomas Tymme, in 1612, published &quot;A Dialogue 

 Philosophical!, 7 written in the form of a Dialogue 

 between Philadelph and Theophrast. In the third 

 chapter, the former observes : u I have heard and 

 read of many strange motions artificiall, as were the 

 inventions of Boetius, in whose commendation Cassio- 

 dorus writeth thus: you know profound things and 

 shew mervailes, by the disposition of your Art, mettals 

 doe lowe in sundrie formes : Diomedes picture of brasse, 

 doth sound a trumpet loude : a brasen serpent hisseth : 

 birds artificiall, sing sweetly. Very strange also was 

 the moving of the Images of Mercuric: The brasen 

 head which seemed to speake, made by Albertus Mag 

 nus: the Dove of wood, which the Mathematician 

 Architas, did make to flie, as Agellius reporteth. Deda- 

 lus strange Images, which Plato speaketh of: Vulcans 

 selfe-movers, whereof Homer hath written : the Iron fly, 

 made at Noremberge, which being let out of the Arti 

 ficers hand, did as it were flie about by the guests that 

 were at the Table, and at the last, as though it were 

 weary, returned to his masters hand againe. In which 

 Citie also an artificiall Eagle was so ordered to flie aloft 

 in the ayre toward the Emperour coming thither, that it 

 did accompany him a mighty way.&quot; Page 63. 



It is mentioned in Evelyn s Memoirs, that when in 

 Italy, in 1644, he visited the Villa Borghese at Eome, 

 where he saw the figure of a satyr, that &quot; artfully ex 

 pressed a human voice.&quot; See Note, Article 86. And 

 in his Diary, he records :&quot; 13 July, 1654. We all 

 dined at that most obliging and universally curious Dr. 

 Wilkins s, at Wadham College [Oxford]. He had 

 contrived a hollow statue, which gave a voice, and 

 uttered words by a long concealed pipe that went to 



