OfOXFO%t>^SHI%^E. 
hands of Ur, MoorheaJ Reftor of Buckpel^ are pretty curiofifm^ 
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 ihegal^ 
levy at the Schools^ for her looking direftly upon all her Beholders^ 
on what fide foever they place themfelves ; which common, yet 
furprizing effed of the Painters Art, is caufed, fays the ingenious 
Honoratm Faber ^ in all Figures 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 Pictures 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 figures be 
drawn on JIat tables^ fo that the Beholder perceive not that the eyes 
of thepi^ure are turned contrary to the nofe ; which he muft needs 
do if the eyes of the portrait were convex^ concluding, that no 
j^gure cm be made in Rilievo thus to look every way. 
166, To this place alfo belongs the Invention of drawing />f- 
Siureshy Microfcopkal glaffes by Sir Chriiiopher Wren^^ and the In- 
vention of Mr. Bird Stone-Cutter or Carver of Oxford^ of fink-* 
inga co/oz£r a confiderable depth into the body of polidi'd white 
marble^ by application of it to the out-fide only, fo that the fame 
Figures delineated without, ftiall be as perfectly reprefented with- 
in, deeper or fliallower, according as he continues his applica- 
tion to the furface a longer or fliorter while ^. And if we may 
take in Etchings which Ispainting in Copper, there is a very cu- 
rious and fpeedy way alfo inventedjoy the fo often mentioned Sir 
ChriftopherWren ^ And which borders ftill on thefe, in the Sta- 
tuaries Txzde^ wecanftiew two excellent//ece5 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 
that of weaving filk. ftockings^ firft invented by one Mr. William 
Lee M. A. of this Vniverfity^ who being marryed and poor, and 
obferving how much pains his Wife took in knitting a pair of i^or^- 
, * UonoratlFabri Trad:. deHomlne.^'Ltb. 2.prop. [ubfincm. 1 Hiftory of the Royal Society, Part. 
2. fub finem. ^ Philofoph. Tranfadt. Numb. 7. * Hift. of the Royal Society, Part- 2- fuh piem, 
ings. 
