Art. 5. Of Water-mills for grinding Corn, [152.]

The Water-mills of the Ancients were like ours.

Art. 6. Of other Hydraulick Machines, [153.]

Three sorts of Water-Machines; first, for shewing the hour, [153.] Second, Organs, [154.] Third, for measuring the Way by Water, [154.] by Land, [155.]

Art. 7. Of Machines of War, [155.]

Three kinds; I. To dart Arrows, &c. [155.] II. To batter down Walls, [157.] III. To cover them in their Approaches to the Walls of the Besieged, [158.]

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