Page:History of the Royal Society.djvu/312

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
286
The HISTORY of

3. 'Colouring of Paper, viz. Marbled Paper, by diftempering the colours with Ox-gall, and applying them upon a stiff gummed Liquor.

4. 'Colouring, or rather discolouring the Colours of Silks, Tiffanies, &c. by Brimstone.

5. 'Colouring of several Iron and Copper-work, into Black, with Oyl

6. 'Colouring of Leather into Gold-colour, or rather Silver leaves into Gold by Varnishes, and in other cases by Urine and Sulphur.

7. 'Dying of Marble and Alabaster with heat and coloured Oyls.

8. 'Colouring Silver into Brass with Brimstone or Urine.

9. 'Colouring the Barrels and Locks of Guns into Blue and Purple with the temper of Small-coal heat.

10. 'Colouring of Glass (made of Sands, Flints, &c.) as also of Chrystals and Earthen Ware, with the rusts and solutions of Metals.

11. 'The colouring of live Hair, as in Poland, Horse and Man's Hair; as also the colouring of Furrs.

12. 'Enameling and Anealing.

13. 'Applying Colours, as in the Printing of Books and Pictures, and as in making of playing Cards; being each of them performed in a several way.

14. 'Gilding and Tinning with Mercury, Block-Tin, Sal-Armoniack.

15. 'Colouring Metals, as Copper with Calamy into Brass, and with Zink or Spelter into Gold, or into Silver with Arsenick: And of Iron into Copper with Hungarian Vitriol.

16. Ma-