cor, 



INDEX 



TO THE 



CENTURY OF INVENTIONS. 



ADVANTAGEOUS. 

 A. 



ADVANTAGEOUS change of centres, 



452456. 



jEohiPiLE, fire-blowing, 542, 543. 

 ALARM for locks, 501. 

 ANCHOR, to weigh up, 405, 406. 

 ANTIQUITIES, military, 473, 474. 

 APPROACHING blind, an, 432. 

 ARAGO, M., noticed, 369, 372. 

 ARITHMETICAL instrument. 512. 

 ARQUEBUSE, 466 ; a Croc, 466 ; noticed, 



474. 

 ARTIFICIAL fountain, 413,414; river, 



419; bird, 440; ring horse, 524. 

 ASHMOLE S Museum at Oxford, 356. 

 AUBREY, Mr., &quot; a professed virtuoso,&quot; 



352. 

 AUTHORS, old scientific, enumerated, 



359. 



B. 



BACON, Lord, notice of, 345. 



BACON. ROGER, his invention, 357. 



BALANCE water-work, 415, 416,417. 



BALFOUR, Sir WILLIAM, note, 452. 



BALL, Mr., another virtuoso,&quot; 352. 



BALL, a hour water, 443, 444. 



BATE, JOHN, his &quot; Mysteries of Nature 

 and Art,&quot; a favourite work, 359 ; his 

 style and the Marquis s compared, 361 ; 

 raises water, 479, 480 ; weather glass, 

 546 ; on filling ^olipiles, 480 ; notices 

 4% condensation,&quot; 480 ; his use of the 

 technical term force,&quot; 483, 484. 



BELLS, discourse by, 449. 



BIRD, an artificial flying, 440443, 516. 



BLIND, an approaching, 432. 



BLUNDERBUSS, or Musketoon, 473 ; no 

 ticed, 474. 



BOAT driving against wind and tide, a, 

 407-411. 



BOATS, patent paddle, 410, 411. 



BOGAERTS, PETER, his canal lock, 419. 



BOURNE, WILLIAM, on &quot;shooting in 

 great ordnaunce, 7 400. 



BOYLE, Hon. KOBERT, entrusted with 

 the secret of Papin s fountain, 351. 



BOXES of a cabinet, to lock, 510; dicing 

 box, 521,522. 



BRACELET alphabet, 435. 



BRADLEY, K., mentions &quot; the late Mr. 



CENTURY. 



Savery,&quot; 487 ; account of his engine, 



487. 



BRANCA, his steam jet, 479. 

 BRAZEN HEAD, 346, a brazen or stone, 



515520. 



BRIDGE, a portable, 428 429. 

 BROWNE S calculating Serpentine scale, 



512. 

 BUCKETS, to raise water, 415418 ; two 



buckets, 416418. 

 BUCKET-FOUNTAIN, a, 417, 418. 

 BULWARK, a rising, 430, 432. 

 BUMBASSES and bullets, to shoot, 421. 



C. 



CANDLES, a brass mould for, 514, 115. 



CANNON, tried before Charles I., 467, 

 468 ; improvements in, 468 ; extra 

 ordinary, 469 ; various, 469 ; experi 

 ments at Woolwich, 1651, 469; to 

 charge fifty, 472. 



CANNON, &quot; to level by night,&quot; 400 ; 

 Bishop Wilkins remarks, 422, 423 ; 

 burst by water, 475; charged with 

 water, 481,482. 



CARABINES, often discharging. 463 ; 

 particulars of, 466 ; noticed, 474. 



CASTLE-CLOCK, 420, 421. 



CAUS, SALOMON de, notice of, 369, 370, 

 372, 542 ; his work, 476 ; fountain and 

 description, 476, 477, 478 ; comment 

 on, 478,479. 



CENTURY of Inventions, its name. 345 ; 

 MS. copy, 346 ; the MS. and first 

 edition, 347 ; title pages, 347 ; why 

 misunderstood, 350 ; nature of articles 

 therein, 353 ; as a literary work, 358 ; 

 its value, 358 ; variations on its title, 

 358 ; verbal peculiarities, 360 ; its 

 practical tendency, 361 ; its author s 

 object, 361 ; its form, 362 ; similar 

 early statements, 362 ; its style ac 

 cords with the legal form in use for 

 patent specifications, 363 ; agreement 

 between the &quot; Century&quot; and the Mar 

 quis s patent, 363, 364 ; classical 

 scholars have misapprehended the 

 work, 366 ; its suggestive character, 

 367 ; a greater work intended, 367 ; 

 conflicting opinions, 367 ; how to be 

 viewed and estimated, 368 ; the mo 

 dern steam engine owes its origin to 



