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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7680" xml:space="preserve">OF Bodies, ſome (weſee) are hard, and ſome ſoft: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7681" xml:space="preserve">The hardneſsis cauſed
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-01" xlink:href="note-0215-01a" xml:space="preserve">844.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Hard and
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              Soft Bodies.</note>
            (chiefly) by the Jejuneneſs of the Spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7682" xml:space="preserve">and their imparity with the
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            Tangible parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7683" xml:space="preserve">Both which, if they be in a greater degree, maketh them
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            not onely hard, but fragile, and leſs enduring of preſſure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7684" xml:space="preserve">as Steet, Stone, Glaß,
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            Dry Wood, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7685" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7686" xml:space="preserve">Softneſs cometh (contrariwiſe) by the greater quantity of
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            Spirits, (which ever helpeth to induce yielding and ceſſion;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7687" xml:space="preserve">and by the
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            more equal ſpreding of the Tangible parts, which thereby are more ſliding,
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            and following; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7688" xml:space="preserve">as in Gold, Lead, Wax, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7689" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7690" xml:space="preserve">But note, that ſoft Bodies (as we
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            uſe the word) are of two kindes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7691" xml:space="preserve">the one, that eaſily giveth place to an-
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            other Body, but altereth not Bulk by riſing in other places; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7692" xml:space="preserve">and therefore we
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            ſee that Wax, if you put any thing into it
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            , doth not riſe in Bulk, but onely
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            giveth place: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7693" xml:space="preserve">For you may not think, that in Printing of Wax, the Wax riſeth
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            up at all; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7694" xml:space="preserve">but onely the depreſſed part giveth place, and the other remaineth
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            as it was. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7695" xml:space="preserve">The other that altereth Bulk in the Ceſſion, as Water, or other
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            Liquors, if you put a Stone, or any thing into them, they give place (in-
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            deed) eaſily, but then they riſe all over; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7696" xml:space="preserve">which is a falſe Ceſſion, for it is in
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            place, and not in Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7698" xml:space="preserve">ALl Bodies Ductile, and Tenſile, (as Metals) that will be drawn into Wires;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7699" xml:space="preserve">
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-02" xlink:href="note-0215-02a" xml:space="preserve">845.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Bodies Ductil
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              e
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              and Tenſile.</note>
            Wool, and Tow that will be drawn into Yarn or Thred; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7700" xml:space="preserve">have in them
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            the Appetite of Not diſcontinuing, ſtrong; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7701" xml:space="preserve">which maketh them follow the
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            force that pulleth them out; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7702" xml:space="preserve">and yet ſo, as not diſcontinue or forſake their
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            own Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7703" xml:space="preserve">Viſcous Bodies (likewiſe) as Pitch, VVax, Birdlime, Cheeſe toaſted,
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            will draw forth and roap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7704" xml:space="preserve">But the difference between Bodies fibrous, and
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            Bodies viſcous, is plain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7705" xml:space="preserve">For all Wooll, and Tow, and Cotton, and Silk
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            (eſpecially raw Silk) have, beſides their deſire of continuance, in regard of
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            the tenuity of their Th
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            red, a greedineſs of Moiſture, and by Moiſture to
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            joyn and incorporate with other Thred, eſpecially, if there be a little Wreath-
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            ing, as appeareth by the twiſting of Thred, and the practice of Twirling
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            about of Spindles. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7706" xml:space="preserve">And weſee alſo, that Gold and Silver Thred cannot be
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            made without Twiſting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7708" xml:space="preserve">THe differences of impreſſible, and not impreſſible; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7709" xml:space="preserve">figurable, and not
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0215-03" xlink:href="note-0215-03a" xml:space="preserve">846.
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Other Paßi-
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              ons of Matter,
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              and Characters
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              of Bodies.</note>
            figurable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7710" xml:space="preserve">mouldable, and not mouldable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7711" xml:space="preserve">ſciſſible, and not ſciſſible;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7712" xml:space="preserve">and many other Paſſions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied unto the
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            Inſtruments and Ufe
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            s which Men ordinarily practiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7713" xml:space="preserve">but they are all but the
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            effects of ſome of theſe cauſes following, which we will enum erate without
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            applying them, becauſe that would be too long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7714" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is the Ceſſion, or
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            not Ceſſion of Bodies, into a ſmaller ſpace, or room, keeping the out ward
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            Bulk, and not flying up. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7715" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond is, the ſtronger or weaker Appetite, in
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            Bodies, to continuity, and to flie diſcontinuity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7716" xml:space="preserve">The third is, the diſpoſition
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            of Bodies, to contract, or not contract; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7717" xml:space="preserve">and again, toextend, or not extend. </s>
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            The fourth is, the ſmall quantity, or great quantity of the Pneumatical in
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            Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7719" xml:space="preserve">The fifth is, the nature of the Pneumatical, whether it be Native
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            Spirit of the Body, or common Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7720" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth is, the Nature of the Native
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            Spirits in the Body, whether they be Active, and Eager, or Dull, and Gentle. </s>
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            The ſeventh is, the emiſſion or detenſion of the Spirits in Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7722" xml:space="preserve">The eighth
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            is, the dilatation or contraction of the Spirits in Bodies, while they are de-
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            tained. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7723" xml:space="preserve">Th
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            e nineth is, the collocation of the Spirits in Bodies, vvhether the
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            collocation be equal or unequal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7724" xml:space="preserve">and again, vvhether the Spirits be coacer-
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            vate or diffuſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7725" xml:space="preserve">Thetenth is, the denſity or rarity of the Tangible parts.</s>
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