Decorative headpiece featuring scrolling foliage and mythical creatures.

THE AUTHOR'S PROPOSITION ON FIGURE VIII.

ANOTHER TYPE OF LATHE, BORN FROM THE PREVIOUS ONE, FOR TURNING, EXCAVATING, AND ORNAMENTING DISHES AND SMALL URNS INTO THE SHAPE OF AN EGG, FROM ANY MATERIAL CAPABLE OF BEING WORKED BY IRON.

Declaration of the same Eighth Figure.

Decorative drop cap 'H' featuring floral motifs.THIS lathe, as the proposition suggests, depends on the preceding one; and once that is understood, there is no obscurity in this Figure. For in it is seen the small orb already mentioned, on which the description of the oval depends. For this orb forces the iron of the operator, which appears placed in the perpendicular rifts of the heads from the East to the West. The rest can be grasped from what has already been said and from the Figure.

Addition.

The orb, which lies between the two mobile heads, must be associated with another, so that the matter may be conducted more certainly, just as the painting, which is above the lathe to the North, shows us. Furthermore, it must be ensured that in the immobile head toward the West there is a pole that supports the cylinder, and that the mobile heads have a slot in the upper part, not for admitting a board as in the previous lathe, but for the handle of the instrument itself, guided by the workman, which sits on the orbs, through which it is depressed and elevated to fashion an oval or any other proposed figure. Finally, the square holes, which show themselves to us in the mobile Eastern head, have this use: namely, to introduce a driven nail to support the iron instrument where only one orb will be present; but it will be far better if there are two, as was recently said.

TOWARD THE WEST

Decorative tailpiece featuring symmetrical scrolling foliage and hanging ornaments.