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Mechanick-powers: or, The mistery of nature and art unvail'd. : Shewing what great things may be perform'd by mechanick engines, in removing and raising bodies of vast weight with little strength, or force; and also the making of machines, or engines, for raising of water, draining of grounds, and several other uses. Together with a treatise of circular motion artificially fitted to mechanick use, and the making of clock-work and other engins. A work pleasant and profitable for all sorts of men, from the highest to the lowest degree: and never treated of in English but once before, and that but briefly. The whole comprized in ten books, and illustrated with copper cuts