“Of the making of Rockets and other Fireworkes. For the
making of Rockets of sundry kinds, divers molds are to be made, with their Rowling pins, Breathes, Chargers, &c. as
may be seene here in the figure. And
having rowled a Case of paper upon
the Rowling pin for your mould, fill
it with the composition belonging to that mould... now
may you loade it on the top, with Serpents,
Reports, Stars, or Golden Raine... Touching
the making of the Golden Raine that
is nothing but filling of Quilles with
the composition of your Rockets somewhat
hard: Now if the head of a Rocket be
loaded with a thousand of those Quilles its
a goodly sight to see how pleasantly they spread themselves in the Ayre and come down like streames of Gold much like the falling downe of Snow being agitated by a turbulent
winde."
Jean Leurechon (Hendrik van Etten), Mathematicall Recreations
Gunpowder + a thousand quills = guaranteed to be a goodly sight.
