Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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84To the Reader. gar and Trivial, mean and ſordid, curious and fruitleß;
and therefore he wiſheth, that they would have perpetually be-
fore
their eyes, what is now in doing;
and the difference between
this
Natural Hiſtory, and others.
For thoſe Natural
Hiſtories
which are extant, being gathered for delight
and
uſe, are full of pleaſant Deſcriptions and Pictures;
and
affect
and ſeek after Admiration, Rarities, and Secrets.
But
contrariwiſe
, the ſcope, which his Lordſhip intendeth, is to write
ſuch
a Natural Hiſtory, as may be fundamental to the
erecting
and building of a true Philoſophy:
For the illumi-
nation
of the Under ſtanding;
the extracting of Axioms,
and
the producing of many noble Works and Effects.
For he
hopeth
by this means, to acquit himſelf of that, for which he
taketh
himſelf in a ſort bound;
and that is, the advancement
of
Learning and Sciences.
For having, in this preſent Work,
collected
the materials for the Building;
and in his Novum
66[Handwritten note 6]77[Handwritten note 7]88[Handwritten note 8] Organum (of which his Lordſhip is yet to publiſh a Second
Part
) ſet down the Inſtruments and Directions for the
VVork
;
Men ſhall now be wanting to themſelves, if they
raiſe
not knowledge to that perfection, whereof the Nature of
Mortal
Men is capable.
And in this behalf, I have heard
his
Lordſhip ſpeak complainingly, That his Lordſhip (who
66[Handwritten note 6]77[Handwritten note 7]88[Handwritten note 8] thinketh, that he deſerveth to be an Architect in this Build-
ing
) ſhould be forced to be a VVorkman, and a Laborer;
and
to
dig the Clay, and burn the Brick;
and more then that,
(according to the hard condition of the Iſraelites, at the lat-
ter
end) to gather the Straw and Stubble, over all the Fields,
to
burn the Bricks withal.
For he knoweth, that except he do
it
, nothing will be done;
Men are ſoſet to deſpiſe the means
66[Handwritten note 6]77[Handwritten note 7]88[Handwritten note 8] of their own good.
And as for the baſeneß of many of the
Experiments
, as long as they be Gods VVorks, they are
honorable
enough:
And for the vulgarneß of them, true
Axioms
muſt be drawn from plain experience, and not from
doubtful
;
and his Lordſhips courſe is to make VVonders

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