1. Mathematicall recreations, or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c : not vulgarly manifest till now Publication: London : Printed for William Leake, at the Signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, MDCLIII [1653] Subject(s): Mathematical ConceptsChemical PhenomenaExplosive AgentsPhysical Phenomena