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

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          <pb o="169" file="0203" n="203" rhead="Century VIII."/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7223" xml:space="preserve">Gold is the onely Subſtance which hath nothing in it Volatile, and yet
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0203-01" xlink:href="note-0203-01a" xml:space="preserve">799.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Fixation of
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              Bodies.</note>
            melteth without much difficulty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7224" xml:space="preserve">The Melting ſheweth, that it is not
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            jejune or ſcarce in Spirit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7225" xml:space="preserve">So that the fixing of it is not want of Spirit to flie
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            out, but the equal ſpreding of the Tangible parts, and the cloſe coacerva-
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            tion of them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7226" xml:space="preserve">where by they have the leſs appetite, and no means (at all) to
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            iſſue forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7227" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to try whether Glaſs Re-molten, do loſe
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            any weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7228" xml:space="preserve">for the parts in Glaſs are evenly ſpred, but they are not ſo cloſe
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            as in Gold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7229" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee by the eaſie admiſſion of Light Heat, and Cold, and
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            by the ſmalneſs of the weight. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7230" xml:space="preserve">There be other Bodies fixed, which have lit-
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            tle or no Spirit, ſo as there is nothing to flie out; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7231" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the Stuff, where-
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            of Coppels are made, which they put into Furnaces, upon which Fire work-
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            eth not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7232" xml:space="preserve">So that there are three cauſes of Fixation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7233" xml:space="preserve">the Even-ſpreding both
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            of the Spirits and Tangible parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7234" xml:space="preserve">the Cloſeneß of the Tangible parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7235" xml:space="preserve">and the Fe-
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            junenß or Extream Comminution of Spirits: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7236" xml:space="preserve">Of which three, the two firſt may
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            be joyned with a Nature Liquefiable, the laſt not.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7238" xml:space="preserve">IT is a profound Contemplation in Nature, to conſider of the Emptineſs (as we
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0203-02" xlink:href="note-0203-02a" xml:space="preserve">800.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Reſtleſs Na-
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              ture of Things
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              in themſelves,
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              and their De-
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              fire to Change.</note>
            may callit) or Inſatisfaction of ſeveral Bodies, and of their appetite to take
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            in others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7239" xml:space="preserve">Air taketh in Lights, and Sounds, and Smells, and Vapors: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7240" xml:space="preserve">And
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            it is moſt manifeſt, that it doth it with a kinde of Thirſt, as not ſatisfied with
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            his own former Conſiſtence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7241" xml:space="preserve">for elſe it would never receive them in ſo ſud-
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            denly and eaſily. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7242" xml:space="preserve">Water and all Liquors do haſtily receive dry and more Ter-
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            reſtrial Bodies proportionable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7243" xml:space="preserve">and Dry Bodies, on the other ſide, drink in
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            Waters and Liquors: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7244" xml:space="preserve">So that (as it was well ſaid by one of the Ancients, of
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            Earthy and Watry Subſtances) one is a Glue to another. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7245" xml:space="preserve">Parchments, Skins,
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            Cloth, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7246" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7247" xml:space="preserve">drink in Liquors; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7248" xml:space="preserve">though themſelves be entire Bodies, and not
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            comminuted, as Sand and Aſbes, nor apparently porous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7249" xml:space="preserve">Metals themſelves
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            do receive in readily Strong waters, and Strong-waters likewiſe do readily pierce
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            into Metals and Stones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7250" xml:space="preserve">and that Strong-water will touch upon Gold, that will
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            not touch upon Silver, and è converſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7251" xml:space="preserve">And Gold, which ſeemeth by the weight
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            to be the cloſeſt and moſt ſolid Body, doth greedily drink in Quick-ſilver. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7252" xml:space="preserve">And
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            it ſeemeth, that this Reception of other Bodies is not violent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7253" xml:space="preserve">for it is (many
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            times) reciprocal, and, as it were with conſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7254" xml:space="preserve">Of the cauſe of this, and to
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            what Axiom it may be referred, conſider attentively; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7255" xml:space="preserve">for as for the pretty
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            aſſertion, That Matter is like a Common Strumpet that deſireth all Forms, it is
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            but a Wandring Notion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7256" xml:space="preserve">Onely Flame doth not content it ſelf to take in any
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            other Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7257" xml:space="preserve">but either to overcome, and turn another Body into it ſelf, as
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            by victory, or itſelf to die and go out.</s>
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