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

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            create Tones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1573" xml:space="preserve">Percuſſion of Metals (comprehending Glaß, and the like)
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            Percuſſions of Air, and Percuſſions of Water.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1575" xml:space="preserve">The Diapaſon or Eight in Muſick, is the ſweeteſt Concord; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1576" xml:space="preserve">in ſomuch,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-01" xlink:href="note-0064-01a" xml:space="preserve">103.</note>
            as it is in effect an Vniſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1577" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in Lutes that are ſtrung in the baſe ſtrings
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            with two ſtrings, one an Eighth above another, which make but as one ſound;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1578" xml:space="preserve">and every Eighth Note in Aſcent, (as from Eight to Fifteen, from Fifteen
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            to Twenty two, and ſo in inſinitum) are but Scales of Diapaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1579" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe
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            is dark, and hath not been rendred by any, and therefore would be better
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            contemplated. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1580" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth that Air (which is the ſubject of Sounds) in
              <lb/>
            Sounds that are not Tones (which are all unequal as hath been ſaid) ad-
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            mitteth much variety; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1581" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in the Voices of Living Creatures, and
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            likewiſe in the Voices of ſeveral Men; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1582" xml:space="preserve">for we are capable to diſcern ſeve-
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            ral Men by their Voices) and in the Conjugation of Letters, whence Ar-
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            ticulate Sounds proceed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1583" xml:space="preserve">which of all others, are moſt various. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1584" xml:space="preserve">But in the
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            Sounds which we call Tones (that are ever equal) the Air is not able to
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            caſt it ſelf into any ſuch variety; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1585" xml:space="preserve">but is forced to recur into one and the
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            ſame Poſture or Figure, onely differing in greatneſs and ſmallneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1586" xml:space="preserve">So
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            we ſee Figures may be made of Lines, crooked and ſtraight, in inſinite
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            variety, where there is inequality; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1587" xml:space="preserve">but Circles or Squares, or Triangles
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            Equilateral, (which are all Figures of equal Lines) can differ but in greater
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            or leſſer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1589" xml:space="preserve">It is to be noted (the rather, leſt any Man ſhould think that there is any
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            thing in this number of Eight, to create the Diapaſon) that this computa-
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            tion of Eight, is a thing rather received than any true computation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1590" xml:space="preserve">For
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            a true computation ought ever to be, by diſtribution into equal Por-
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            tions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1591" xml:space="preserve">Now there be intervenient in the riſe of Eight (in Tones) two
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            Beemols or Half-Notes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1592" xml:space="preserve">ſo as iſ you divide the Tones equally, the
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            Eighth is but Seven whole and equal Notes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1593" xml:space="preserve">And if you ſubdivide that
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            into Half-Notes, (as it is in the ſtops of a Lute) it maketh the number of
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            Thirteen.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1595" xml:space="preserve">Yet this is true, That in the ordinary Riſes and Falls of the Voice of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0064-03" xlink:href="note-0064-03a" xml:space="preserve">105.</note>
            Man (not meaſuring the Tone by whole Notes and Half Notes, which is
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            the equal Meaſure) there fall out to be two Beemols (as hath been ſaid) be-
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            tween the Vniſon and the Diapaſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1596" xml:space="preserve">and this varying is natural. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1597" xml:space="preserve">For if a
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            Man would endeavor to raiſe or fall his Voice ſtill by Half-Notes, like the
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            ſtops of a Lute, or by whole Notes alone, without Halfs as far as an Eighth;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1598" xml:space="preserve">he will not be able to frame his Voice unto it, which ſheweth that aſter e-
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            very three whole Notes, Nature re quireth, for all Harmonical uſe, one Half-
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            Note to be interpoſed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1600" xml:space="preserve">It is to be conſidered, That whatſoever vertue is in Numbers, for con-
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            ducing to concent of Notes, is rather to be aſcribed to the Ante-number, than
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            to the Entire-number; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1601" xml:space="preserve">as namely, that the Sound returneth after Six, or after
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            Twelve: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1602" xml:space="preserve">So that the Seventh or the Thirteenth is not the Matter, but the
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            Sixth, or the Twelfth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1603" xml:space="preserve">and the Seventh and the Thirteenth, are but the
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            Limits and Boundaries of the Return.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1605" xml:space="preserve">The Concords in Muſick which are Perfect, or Semiperfect, between the
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            Vniſon and the Diapaſon, are the Fifth, which is the moſt Perfect; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1606" xml:space="preserve">the Third
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            next, and the Sixth which is more harſh: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1607" xml:space="preserve">And as the Ancients eſteemed, and
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            ſo do my ſelf, and ſome other yet, the Fourth which they call Diateßeron; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1608" xml:space="preserve">as
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            for the Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and ſo in infinitum, they be but Recurrences
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            of the former; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1609" xml:space="preserve">viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1610" xml:space="preserve">of the Third, the Fifth, and the Sixth, being an Eighth
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            reſpectively from them.</s>
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