A rich cabinet , with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours. Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art.

London, Printed for W. Whitwood, 1677.

This work first appeared in 1651. It contains the first description and figure of a Thermometer in an English book, and is especially interesting for descriptions of and receipts for fireworks and for the uses of projectiles and explosives.

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