Errata.
Page 38, 17 lines from top, for “29 June” read “29 Jan.”
117, 3 lines from top, for “Edge-hill” read “Marston Moor.”
120, 16 lines from bottom, for “Baron” read “Brown.”
10 lines from bottom, same correction.
145, 2 lines from bottom, for “or siding” read “for siding.”
155, 14 lines from bottom, for “William” read “Charles.”
168, 172, 175, 177, last line, note, for date “1637,” read “1657,” throughout.
187, 14 lines from top, dele “From” &c., ending “France.”
210, last line, note, place † before “Brit. Mus.” &c.
222, 3 lines from top, for “Coining” read “Stamping.”
249, 4 lines from bottom, for “B” read “A.”
253, 5 lines from bottom, add “Marquis,” after “Edward.”
260, 12 lines from top, add note “Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1663–64, edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green, 8vo. 1862.”
314, 15 lines from top, for “three” read “two.”
16 lines from top, for “five” read “six.”
18 lines from top, for “of” read “following.”
320, 4 lines from bottom, for “other by” read “other my.”
322, 6 lines from bottom, after “Meistres,” add “[Reistres?]”
347, 15 lines from bottom, for “his” read “is.”
462, 15 lines from bottom, for “of” read “wrote to.”
484, 6 lines from bottom, dele “from the bottom in order to discharge it again at the top,” and substitute, “which convey the steam by turns, to the vessel D.”
| (fn=footnote) | Original | Replaced by |
|---|---|---|
| Page 7 | Shakspere | Shakespeare |
| Page 31 | Lenthal | Lenthall |
| Page 59 | being Lord-Lieutenant, | being Lord Lieutenant, |
| Page 64 fn | No. 18,980, vol. i.’ | No. 18,980, vol. i.” |
| Page 67 fn | See Chapter XIX, | See Chapter XVIII, |
| Page 92 | [unreferenced footnote] | We have next—[M] |
| Page 109 | there before.’”[23] | there before.”[23] |
| Page 121 | my conscience.”) | my conscience.)” |
| Page 126 | expedition may he used. | expedition may be used. |
| Page 193 | passed by the Commons[5] | passed by the Commons[57] |
| Page 203 | Westmoreland. | Westmorland. |
| Page 240 | Marq. of Dorcester. | Marq. of Dorchester. |
| Page 244 | Feburary | February |
| Page 245 | Feburary | February |
| Page 255 fn | Jo. H. of Com. Vol. viii. p. 474, 476. | Jo. H. of Com. Vol. viii. p. 475, 476. |
| Page 281 | this well-born person;” | this well-born person;’ |
| Page 289 | Arundell | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 294 | to laugh at it!” | “to laugh at it!” |
| Page 298 | Wedensday | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 299 | Arundell | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 299 | (Sister to Arthur Earle of Essex, &c. ( | (Sister to Arthur Earle of Essex, &c.) |
| Page 299 | Henry Howard, Thomas Elizabeth and | Henry Howard, Thomas, Elizabeth and |
| Page 317 fn | and the 21st of Angust | and the 21st of August |
| Page 348 | them in practice. | them in practice.” |
| Page 349 | geuius | genius |
| Page 362 | ecstacy | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 362 | “sundry sorts of engynes. | “sundry sorts of engynes.” |
| Page 365 fn | secure rom danger | secure from danger |
| Page 372 | enterprize | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 402 | Cornelius Dreble | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 402 | Cornelius Drebell | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 416 fn | confess to have seen. | 4 confess to have seen. |
| Page 425 | the the | the |
| Page 432 fn | or Welchman | 7 or Welchman |
| Page 433 | “Le Caractere universel, | “Le Caractère universel, |
| Page 439 | “rose pipe but paper thick” | [kept unhypenated words] |
| Page 443 | extemely | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 443 | chararcter | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 446 | the tobacco-tongs,” | the “tobacco-tongs,” |
| Page 474 | guage | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 479 | desribes | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 481 | with a squirt squirt | [sic][seen also in facsimile of Mathematical Recreations(1653)] |
| Page 497 | From the 25th of July 1698, to the 14th of June 1669, | From the 25th of July 1698, to the 14th of June 1699, |
| Page 507 | of of | of |
| Page 509 | no less admirable then the engines | no less admirable than the engines |
| Page 528 | and shooting. | and shooting.” |
| Page 550–2 | [Description of illustration as footnote] | [placed after the illustration not at the end of chapter] |
| Page 540 | See Appendix. | See Appendix C. |
| Page 560 | Water commanding Engine | Water-commanding Engine |
| Page 565 | Device or Invention, for ther raising | ther [sic] is what appears in the original referenced document |
| Page 573 | twentith | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 573 | Marquiss | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 574 | (Surry) | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 581 | [two unreferenced footnotes] | [72][72*] The Editor |
| Page 584 | effets méchaniques | effets mécaniques |
| Page 584 | reconnaisance | reconnaissance |
| Page 584 | ouvres | œuvres |
| Page 584 | bontès | bontés |
| Page 584 fn | institulé | intitulé |
| Page 587 | P. 189, No. 27. | P. 189, No. 27.] |
| Page 592 | distillatory apparatus.) | distillatory apparatus.] |
| Page 593 | der Wasser-Kunste | der Wasser-Künste |
| Page 593 | —— 4. Pontificiale. | —— 5. Pontificiale. |
| Page 594 | Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses problemes en Geometrie, Mechanique, Optique, and Catoptrique, &c. [And at the end] Notes sur les Recreations Mathematiques | Examen du Livre des Recréations Mathématiques, et de ses problèmes en Géométrie, Mechanique, Optique, and Catoptrique, &c. [And at the end] Notes sur les Recreations mathématiques |
| Page 594 | Pont-a-Moussou | Pont-a-Mousson |
| Page 595 | Nurnberg | Nürnberg |
| Page 596 | Aelianus | Ælianus |
| Page 598 | Apophthegme | [kept alternative spelling] |
| Page 599 | in “Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis. | in “Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis.” |
| Page 600 | Bryan, K. B. With | Bryan, K. B.) With |
| Page 605 | Candles, a brass mould for, 514, 115. | Candles, a brass mould for, 514, 515. |
| Page 609 | a model o his | a model of his |
| Page 616 | Glamogan’s | Glamorgan’s |
| Page 618 | Water commanding engine | Water-commanding engine |
| Page 619 | SHAKESPERE | SHAKESPEARE |
| Page 621 | continental tour, 8; | continental tour, 18; |
| Page 621 | domestic and studious babits, 18; | domestic and studious habits, 18; |
The following minor typographical errors have been corrected without specific mention:—
In the references, a missing full stop, or dash between two dates, or a single quote where a double quote should be.
In a list of names, or descriptions where one is missing a full stop, and all the rest do have full stops.
The following text which is part of the illustrated title page on page 377 is included here for visibility of any text search (find).
A
CENTURY
OF THE
Names and Scantlings
OF SUCH
INVENTIONS,
As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
———Artis & Naturæ proles.
LONDON:
Printed by J. Grismond in the year 1663.