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

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            to be falſe, in that the Sound of a Bell, ſtring, or the like, continueth melting,
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            ſometime after the Percuſſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1786" xml:space="preserve">but ceaſeth ſtraight-ways, if the Bell or
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            String be touched and ſtayed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1787" xml:space="preserve">whereas, if it were the Eliſion of the Air, that
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            made the Sound, it could not be that the touch of the Bell or String, ſhould
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            extinguiſh ſo ſuddenly that motion, cauſed by the eliſion of the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1788" xml:space="preserve">This
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            appeareth yet more manifeſtly, by Chiming with a Hammer upon the out-
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            ſide of a Bell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1789" xml:space="preserve">for the Sound will be according to the in ward Concave
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            of the Bell: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1790" xml:space="preserve">Whereas the Eliſion or Attenuation of the Air cannot be,
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            but onely between the Hammer, and the outſide of the Bell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1791" xml:space="preserve">So again,
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            if it were an Eliſion, a broad Hammer, and a Bodkin, ſtruck upon Metal,
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            would give a diverſe Tone, as well as a diverſe Loudneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1792" xml:space="preserve">But they do not
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            ſo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1793" xml:space="preserve">for though the Sound of the one be louder, and of the other ſofter, yet
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            the Tone is the ſame. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1794" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, in Eccho’s (where of ſome are as loud as the
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            iginal Voice) there is no new Elyſion, but a Repercuſſion onely. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1795" xml:space="preserve">But that,
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            nich convinceth it moſt of all, is, That Sounds are generated, where there
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            no Air at all. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1796" xml:space="preserve">But theſe, and the like conceits, when Men have cleared
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            eir Underſtanding, by the light of Experience, will ſcatter and break up
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            ea Miſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1798" xml:space="preserve">It is certain, that Sounds is not produced at the firſt, but with ſome
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0069-01" xlink:href="note-0069-01a" xml:space="preserve">125.</note>
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            cal Motion of the Air or Flame, or ſome other Medium; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1799" xml:space="preserve">nor yet without
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            me reſiſtance, either in the Air, or the Body percuſſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1800" xml:space="preserve">For if there be a
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            er yielding or ceſſion, it produceth no Sound, as hath been ſaid. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1801" xml:space="preserve">And
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            erein Sounds differ from Light or Colours which paſs through the Air,
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            other Bodies, without any Local Motion of the Air, either at the firſt, or
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            er. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1802" xml:space="preserve">But you muſt attentively diſtinguiſh between the Local Motion of
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            e Air (which is but Vehiculum cauſæ, A Carrier of the Sounds) and the Sounds
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            emſelves conveighed in the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1803" xml:space="preserve">For as to the former, we ſee manifeſtly,
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            at no Sound is produced (no not by Air it ſelf againſt other Air, as in
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            rgans, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1804" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1805" xml:space="preserve">but with a perceptible Blaſt of the Air, and with ſome re-
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            ance of the Air ſtrucken. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1806" xml:space="preserve">For, even all Speeth, (which is one of the
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            entleſt Motions of Air,) is with expulſion of a little Breath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1807" xml:space="preserve">And all Pipes
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            have a blaſt, as well as a Sound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1808" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo manifeſtly, that Sounds are car-
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            ried with Wind: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1809" xml:space="preserve">And therefore Sounds will be hard further with the Wind,
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            than againſt the Wind; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1810" xml:space="preserve">and like wiſe, do riſe and fall with the intenſion or
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            remiſſion of the Wind: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1811" xml:space="preserve">But for the Impreſſion of the Sound, it is quite an-
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            other thing, and is utterly without Local Motion of the Air, perceptible;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1812" xml:space="preserve">and in that reſembleth the ſpecies viſible: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1813" xml:space="preserve">For after a Man hath lured, or a
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            Bell is rung, we cannot diſcern any Perceptible Motion (at all) in the Air, as
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            long as the ſound goeth, but onely at the firſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1814" xml:space="preserve">Neither doth the Wind (as far
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            as it carrieth a Voice) with the Motion there of, confound any of the deli-
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            cate, and Articulate Figurations of the Air, in variety of Words. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1815" xml:space="preserve">And if a
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            Man ſpeak a good loudneſs againſt the flame of a Candle, it will not make it
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            tremble much; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1816" xml:space="preserve">though moſt, when thoſe Letters are pronounced, which
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            contract the mouth, as F, S, V, and ſome others, But gentle breathing, or
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            blowing without ſpeaking, will move the Candle far more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1817" xml:space="preserve">And it is the
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            more probable, that Sound is without any Local Motion of the Air, becauſe
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            as it differeth from the ſight, in that it needeth a Local Motion of the Air at
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            firſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1818" xml:space="preserve">Soit paralleleth in ſo many other things with the ſight, and radiation of
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            things inviſible, which (without all queſtion) induce no Local Motion in
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            the Air, as hath been ſaid.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1820" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs it is true, that upon the noiſe of Thunder, and great Ord-
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            nance, Glaſs Windows will ſhake, and Fiſhes are thought to be frayed </s>
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