The elements of water-drawing, or, [A] compendious abstract of a[ll sorts of kinds] of water-machins or gins used or pr[actis]ed in the world
Subtitle: with their natural grounds and reasons, and what service may be expected from them : as also new exquisite ways and machins never before published : with a philosophical discourse and new discovery of drawing water out of great deeps by fier : where is also disapproved the perpetual motion, the water-poise, the syphon or philosophers engine, the horizontal sails, with divers other experiments
By: published for the improving the service of the mineral world ...
Contributors: Thornton, Robert, 1618-1679.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1423:4.
Publisher: Printed by Tho. Leach for Henry Brome
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Pumping machinery -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Compendius abstract of all sorts and kinds of water-machins or gins used or practised in the world; R. D'acres's The art of water-drawing; Compendius abstract of all sorts and kinds of water-machins or gins used or practised in the world.; R. D'acres's The art of water-drawing.
Notes: Preface signed: R. D'acres.

Ascribed on insufficient evidence to Robert Thornton.

Imprint date handwritten on t.p.; Wing suggests 1660.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Wing E494.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1983. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 641-1700 ; 1423:4)