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hands of Mr. Moorhead Rector of Bucknel, are pretty curiofities, 

 and much admired. 



165. And fo is the Cat painted over one of the compartments in- 

 cluding the Arms of the Vniverfity, in the South fide of the gal- 

 lery at the Schools, for her looking directly upon all her Beholders, 

 on what fide foever they place themfelves ; which common, yet 

 furprizing effecT: of the Painters Art, is caufed, fays the ingenious 

 Honoratu* Faber x , in all Piftures whatever of this nature, by their 

 turning the nofe to one fide and the eyes to the other ; whence it 

 comes to pafs that fuch Piftures feem to look to the right fide, be- 

 caufe indeed the eyes are turned that way ; and to the left in like 

 manner, becaufe the point of the noje is turned to the left : where 

 by the way he alfo notes, that 'tis neceffary that all fuch piftures be 

 drawn on flat tables, fo that the Beholder perceive not that the eyes 

 of thepifture are turned contrary to the nofe ; which he muft needs 

 do if the eyes of the portrait were convex, Concluding, that no 

 figure can be made in Rilievo thus to look every way. 



166. To this place alfo belongs the Invention of drawing pi- 

 ftures by Microfcopical glafes by Sir Christopher Wren y , and the In- 

 vention of Mr. Bird Stone-C utter or Carver of Oxford, of fink- 

 ing a colour a confiderable depth into the body of polifh'd white 

 marble, by application of it to the out-fide only, fo that the fame 

 Figures delineated without, (ball be as perfectly reprefented with- 

 in, deeper or (liallower, according as he continues his applica- 

 tion to the furface a longer or lliorter while *. And if we may 

 take in Etching, which ispainting in Copper, there is a Very cu- 

 rious and fpeedy way alfo invented,by the fo often mentioned Sir 

 Chriflopher Wren a . And which borders frill on thefe, in the Sta^ 

 tuaries Trade, we can fhew two excellent pieces of Art, in the Sta- 

 tues of Brafs of King Charles the firft, and his Queen Henrietta^ 

 placed in the Niches over the gates of the new Quadrangle in Saint 

 John Baptift College Oxon. * 



167. In fome other Trades yet inferior to thefe, there have 

 been made alfo confiderable Inventions and Improvements, fuch as 

 that of weaving (ilk. (lockings, firft invented by one Mr. William 

 LeeU. A. of this Vniverfity, who being marryed and poor, and 

 obferving how much pains his Wife took in knitting a pair offtockr 



* HmoratiFabri Trafl. de Homine,Ub. z.prop.^. (uifinem. 1 Hiftoryof the Royal Society, Part. 

 2 fubfinem. l Philofoph.Tranfaft. Numi. 7. Hift.of the Royal Society, Part. 2. fubfinem. 



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