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Mechanicks; all made by his own hand; as the Sympathetical balls, one springing up at the approach of the other held up a pretty distance off: the demonstration of a quick way how to pass an army over a river with one boat, and a woodden bridge easily to be foulded up upon one cart: the Mouse-dyal, where a little thing, like a mouse, by her insensible motion, markes the hours of the day. The Lizard-Dial is much like the former, onely the mouse moves upon a plain frame of wood which hath the hours marked on it; and the Lizard creeps upward from hour to hour. The night dyal, shewing by a lighted lamp set behind it, the hours of the night, which are painted in colours upon oyled Paper, and turn about as the time goes. The Tortoise-dyal, where a piece of Cork cut like a Tortoise, being put into a peuter dish of water, which hath the twelve hours of the day marked upon its brims, goeth up and down the water a while, seeking out the hour of the day thatis