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INDEX TO THE CENTURY. 



CENTURY. 



the Marquis and his work, 369 ; Mr. 

 Muirhead s false estimate of this pro 

 duction and its author s invention, 

 371 ; it stands alone, 373; various 

 editions, 374, 375 ; reprints in other 

 works, 375 ; fac-simile title page (ex 

 cept the framework), 377 ; dedication 

 to Charles I., 379 ; Dedication to the 

 Houses of Parliament, 38 1 ; acknow 

 ledges the Act for his engine, 383 ; 

 mentions the sacrifice of 700,000, 

 383 ; Kaltoff, 383 ; its author s prolific 

 invention, 384 ; alludes to fees, 385 ; 

 and his &quot; Golden Age,&quot; 385 ; rarity 

 of the first edition, 497 ; a postscript, 

 note, 535, 536. 



CENTURY, first edition, 346 ; last edi 

 tion, 346 ; its unreliable character, 

 347. 



CHAIR, an imprisoning, 513. 



CHARACTER, a universal, 433. 



CHARLES II. had a curiously contrived 

 box from the Marquis, 356. 



CIPHER and character, 391 ; a one- 

 line cipher, 391 ; the same refined, 

 392 ; reduced to a point, 393 ; varied 

 significally to all the 24 letters, 394 ; 

 key to the Marquis s cipher disco 

 vered, 552. 



CLAUDIUS, of Rome, his Bucket fountain, 

 416. 



COACH-SAVING Engine, 414, 415. 



CONCEITED tinder-box, 439. 



CONDENSATION applied to ebbing and 

 flowing, 419 421 ; applied to drawing 

 weights, 423 425 ; applied to draught, 

 427, 428 ; applied to two globes, 456 

 462 ; noticed by J. Bate, 480. 



CONTINUALLY going watch, 508. 



CONVEYANCE, a secret comb, 511 ; knife, 

 spoon, or fork, 511 



CROCK, 466 ; Arquebuse a, 466. 



CROSS-BOW, noticed, 474 ; a double, 

 528. 



D. 



DARK, to write in the, 503. 



DECKS, false destroying, 405. 



DEE, Dr. JOHN, his preface to Euclid, 

 361. 



DEFINITION of the Engine, 496, 549, 

 550. 



DESAGULIERS, Dr., on automata, 443 ; 

 on perpetual motion, 452, 453 ; ac 

 count of Savery s engine, 488 490 ; 

 charge against Savery, 489. 



DICE, cheating at, 522, 524. 



DICING box, 521, 522, 524. 



DISCOURSE, mute and perfect, by co 

 lours, 399 : by night, 399. 



DOOR, opening either way, 502 ; a con 

 ceited, 503. 



DOORS, a pocket engine to open, 527. 



HARLEIAN. 



DOUBLE drawing engine for weights, 



423. 

 DOUBLE water-screw, 451 ; cross-bow, 



528. 

 DREBELL, CORNELIUS, noticed, 402, 



403. 



E. 



EBBING and flowing river, 419; castle- 

 clock, 420, 421 ; applied to two globes, 

 456462. 



ENGINE, portable in one s pocket, 400; 

 shipdestroying,401 ; to drive and fasten 

 to ships, 401 ; for cannon, 468 ; a semi- 

 omnipotent, 529 531. 



ENGINE, a stamping, 520 ; a gravel, 525 ; 

 a ship-raising, 526; a pocket, to open 

 doors, 527. 



ENGINES of War, 468, 469. 



ESCUTCHEON for locks, 500. 



ETTEN, VAN, describes a fountain, 481 ; 

 recommends heat, 481; cannon, 481, 

 482. 



EVELYN, John, his Diary, 351; his 

 boscoresque &quot; grounds, 352. 



F. 



FALSE destroying decks, 405. 

 FIRE-ARROW, to shoot, 465. 

 FLAMSTEAD, John, astronomer, 352. 

 FLASK-CHARGER, 463; powder, noticed, 



.474. 



FLEET, to destroy a, 402. 

 FLYiNG-man, a, 504 508. 

 FORCE, as a technical term, explained, 



483, 484. 

 FOUNTAIN, artificial, 413, 414 ; De Caus, 



477. 



FRINGE-ALPHABET, 435. 

 FULTON, Robert, noticed, 404. 



G. 



GARDEN, a floating, 412, 413; a river 



in, 419. 



GALLERY, a transmittible, 502. 

 GLOUCESTER, moveable bulwark at the 



siege of, 431. 

 GLOVE-ALPHABET, pincked, 435; pri- 



mero gloves, 521. 

 GRADATION, rule of, 448, 449. 

 GRAVEL engine, 525. 

 GREW, Dr., his discourse, 365. 

 GUILFORD, Baron, Life of, 351 ; was &quot;no 



concealed virtuoso, &quot;351; declines being 



proposed for the Royal Society, 352 ; 



his acquaintances, 352 ; visits Sir S. 



Morland, 353. 

 GUNS to shoot often, remark on, 472. 



H. 



HALLAM, learning during the Middle 



Ages, 345. 

 HARLEIAN MSS., 346; cipher, 394. 



