| Description | ' About the Lacteals etc. A paper of Drebels Inventions found among Dr Speeds Papers with its figure. '
Includes an account of 'the most strange work, that my eyes beheld. A Gentleman being Dutch born and Dwwelling at Ipswich, hath made a continual Motion of this bigness and size as neer as I could guess, the Work is this, a Ball or round Globe ever standing without Moving, and upon the North and South sides a Dyall within like unto a Clock or some Dyall both whihc moving and shewing the Courses of the Heavens round about the East and West partss, doth a Ring or Hollow Trunck of Cristall stand, and that without moving, and the same fitted to his half with fair Water, which without any inforcemetn thgat can be perceived, doth ebb and flow with the Seas in every part of the World, myself stayed so long that i saw it ascend up the Trunck or great height , and left the lower Compass of the Ring Empty, the man is very religiious, and of an exceeding good repute of the Inhabitants, and himself to me affirmed upon his faith, that it shioud so ever more. witho9ut any more help of Man for hundreds of years, it if it were not broken, and that both Conjunctins and Eclipses for many hundreds or thousands of yuears, if the World should continue, should be, and is therein seen now. This is Great haste I remit the to God shew this to Mr Leaven Mr Ludwig from; from Ely this Sunday June 3. '
Includes diagram of this strange work. |