The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester / To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

by Henry Dircks

Wheel, great weighted, [452]–[456].

Worcester, Marquis of, the Harleian MSS. not in his handwriting, [346]; his engine in the Century, [353]; estimated number of his inventions, [353], [354]; classified, [354]; his proposed work, [355]; special notices of practice, [355], [356]; silence of contemporaries, [356]; promises a box to the Earl of Lotherdale, [356]; a mysterious invention, [357]; his pecuniary position, [358]; expense of his works at Vauxhall, [358]; analogous inventions in old authors, [359]; enumerated, [359]; seems to have been attached to Bate’s Mysteries of Nature and Art, [359]; Water-works, noticed by Bate, [360]; acquainted with Dr. Dee’s preface to Euclid, [361]; styles of Bate and the Marquis compared, [361]; in search of powerful mechanical aids, [361]; realizes the power of steam, [362]; writes his “Century” similar to patent specifications, [363], [364]; his pre-eminent invention, [366]; wavering character of historical notices of his invention, [368]; false estimate of the Marquis’s personal character, his invention, and his “Century,” in the “Life of James Watt,” [369], [370], [371], [372]; his general character, his inventions, and his work, [373]; the modern steam engine owes its origin to the Marquis and his work, [369]; his engine at work, [370]; acknowledges the passing of the Act for his engine, [383]; mentions the sacrifice of £700,000, [383]; his “Golden Age,” [385]; his supposed invention of Short Writing, [394]; his cipher-written letter, [398]; a model of his semi-omnipotent engine to be buried with him, [530]; notice of his works at Vauxhall, 1647, [537], [538]; statement in his Act of Parliament, [539], [540]; construction of his engine, [551]; key to his cipher discovered, [553]; nine of his inventions, or quintessence of motion, [555]; his patent for clocks, &c., [557]; Rollock’s pamphlet, containing Act, &c., [559].

Write, to, in the dark, [503].

INDEX

TO THE LIFE OF

THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

A.

Act of Parliament for the Water-commanding Engine, applied for, [253]; proceedings in respect to, [254]–[256]; royal assent given, [256]; the Act, [Appendix C.]

Adams, Mr., Lord Herbert’s preceptor, [141].

Albemarle, Duke of, letter from, [268], [269]; another letter, [277]; names the Crown’s debts, [278]; statement made to him of expenditure in the late King’s service, [278], [280].