Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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is coldèr than Oyl, becaufe it hath a quicker Spirit; </
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hath the tangible parts better digeſted than Water, yet hath it a duller Spirit:
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Snakes and Silkworms, are to the touch, Cold. </
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Metals, becauſe it is fulleſt of Spirit.</
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ſuch as have ſome degree of Heat; </
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needs leave any Body cold. </
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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; </
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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.</
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out of the warni Spirits, that doth upon the flight of the Spirits. </
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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: </
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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: </
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cold Weather.</
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in Conſort,
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touching the
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the Experiment 27. </
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the ſubduing of a very great effect, and is alſo of manifold uſe: </
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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; </
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of Wool tied looſe together, being let down into a deep Well; </
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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.</
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there were certain Workmen in time of Wars, fled into Caves; </
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if any of thoſe Veſſels were empty. </
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Snow, and the like in Nitre, and the like in Quick-ſilver: </
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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.</
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