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

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            is coldèr than Oyl, becaufe it hath a quicker Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1238" xml:space="preserve">for all Oyl, though it
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            hath the tangible parts better digeſted than Water, yet hath it a duller Spirit:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1239" xml:space="preserve">So Snow is colder than Water, becauſe it hath more Spirit within it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1240" xml:space="preserve">So
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            we ſee that Salt put to Ice (as in the producing of the Artiſicial Ice) encrea-
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            ſeth the activity of cold: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1241" xml:space="preserve">So ſome Inſecta which have Spirit of Life, as
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            Snakes and Silkworms, are to the touch, Cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1242" xml:space="preserve">So Quick-ſilver is the col@eſt of
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            Metals, becauſe it is fulleſt of Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1244" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth cauſe of Cold is, the chaſſing and driving away of Spirits,
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            ſuch as have ſome degree of Heat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1245" xml:space="preserve">for the baniſhing of the Heat muſt
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            needs leave any Body cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1246" xml:space="preserve">This we ſee in the operation of Opium, and Stu-
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            pefactives upon the Spirits of Living Creatures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1247" xml:space="preserve">and it were not amiſs to try
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            Opium by laying it upon the top of a Weather-Glaß, to ſee whether it will
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            contract the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1248" xml:space="preserve">but I doubt it will not ſuceed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1249" xml:space="preserve">For beſides that, the ver-
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            tue of Opium will hardly penetrate thorow ſuch a body as Glaſs, I conceive
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            that Opium, and the like, make the Spirits flie rather by Malignity, than by
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            Cold.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1251" xml:space="preserve">Seventhly, the ſame effect muſt follow upon the exhaling or drawing
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            out of the warni Spirits, that doth upon the flight of the Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1252" xml:space="preserve">There is
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            an opinion, that the Moon is Magnetical of Heat, as the Sun is of Cold and
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            Moiſture: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1253" xml:space="preserve">It were not amiſs therefore to try it with warm waters; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1254" xml:space="preserve">the one
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            expoſed to the Beams of the Moon, the other with ſome skreen betwixt
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            the Beams of the Moon and the Water: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1255" xml:space="preserve">As we uſe to the Sun for ſhade,
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            and to ſee whether the former will cool ſooner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1256" xml:space="preserve">And it were alſo good
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            to enquire, what other means there may be, to draw forth the Exile heat
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            which is in the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1257" xml:space="preserve">for that may be a ſecret of great power to produce
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            cold Weather.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1259" xml:space="preserve">WE have formerly ſet down the Means of turning Air into Water, in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0054-03" xlink:href="note-0054-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Verſion and
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              Tranſmutation
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              of the Air in
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              to Water.</note>
            the Experiment 27. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1260" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe it is Magnale Naturæ, and tendeth to
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            the ſubduing of a very great effect, and is alſo of manifold uſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1261" xml:space="preserve">We will
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            adde ſome inſtances in Conſort that give light thereunto.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1263" xml:space="preserve">It is teported by ſome of the Ancients, that Sailers have uſed every
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            night, to bang Fleeces of Wool on the ſides of their Ships, the Wool to-
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            wards the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1264" xml:space="preserve">and that they have cruſhed freſh water out of them, in
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            the Morning, for their uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1265" xml:space="preserve">And thus much we have tried, that a quantity
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            of Wool tied looſe together, being let down into a deep Well; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1266" xml:space="preserve">and
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            hanging in the middle, ſome three Fathom from the Water for a night, in
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            the Winter time, increaſed in weight, (as I now remember) to a fifth
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            Part.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1268" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that in Lydia, near Pergamus,
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            there were certain Workmen in time of Wars, fled into Caves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1269" xml:space="preserve">and the
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            Mouth of the Caves being ſtopped by the Enemies, they were famiſhed.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1270" xml:space="preserve">But long time after, the dead Bodies were found, and ſome Veſſels which
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            they had carried with them, and the Veſſels full of Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1271" xml:space="preserve">and that Wa-
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            ter thicker, and more towards Ice, than common Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1272" xml:space="preserve">which is a notable
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            inſtance of Condenſation and Induration by Burial under Earth (in Caves) for
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            long time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1273" xml:space="preserve">and of Verſion alſo (as it ſhould ſeem) of the Air into Water; </s>
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            if any of thoſe Veſſels were empty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1275" xml:space="preserve">Try therefore a ſmall Bladder hung in
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            Snow, and the like in Nitre, and the like in Quick-ſilver: </s>
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            the Bladders faln or ſhrunk, you may be ſure the Air is condenſed by the
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            Cold of thoſe Bodies, as it would be in a Cave under Earth.</s>
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