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

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            likewiſe of an Angular Pipe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2451" xml:space="preserve">and ſee what will be the effects of theſe ſeveral
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            Sounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2452" xml:space="preserve">And ſo again of a Circular Pipe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2453" xml:space="preserve">As if you take a Pipe perfect
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            round, and make a hole whereinto you ſhall blow, and another hole not
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            far from that; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2454" xml:space="preserve">but with a traverſe or ſtop between them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2455" xml:space="preserve">So that your
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            breath may go the Round of the Circle, and come forth at the ſecond hole.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2456" xml:space="preserve">You may try likewiſe Percuſſions of ſolid Bodies of ſeveral Figures: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2457" xml:space="preserve">As
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            Globes, Flats, Cubes, Croſſes, Triangles, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2458" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2459" xml:space="preserve">And their Combinations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2460" xml:space="preserve">as Flat
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            againſt Flat, and Convex againſt Convex, and Convex againſt Flat, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2461" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2462" xml:space="preserve">And mark
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            well the diverſities of the Sounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2463" xml:space="preserve">Try alſo the difference in ſound of ſeve-
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            ral Craſſitudes of hard Bodies percuſſed, and take knowledge of the diver-
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            ſities of the ſounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2464" xml:space="preserve">I my ſelf have tried, That a Bell of Gold yieldeth an ex-
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            cellent ſound, not inferior to that of Silver or Braß, but rather better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2465" xml:space="preserve">Yet
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            we ſee that a piece of money of Gold, ſoundeth far more flat than a piece of
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            money of Silver.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2467" xml:space="preserve">The Harp hath the concave, not along the ſtrings, but acroſs the ſtrings;
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-01" xlink:href="note-0087-01a" xml:space="preserve">223.</note>
            and no Inſtrument hath the ſound ſo melting and prolonged, as the Iriſh Harp.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2469" xml:space="preserve">So as I ſuppoſe, that if a Virginal were made with a double Concave; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2470" xml:space="preserve">the
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            one all the length as the Virginal hath, the other at the end of the ſtrings, as
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            the Harp hath; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2471" xml:space="preserve">it muſt needs make the ſound perfecter, and not ſo ſhallow,
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            and jarring. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2472" xml:space="preserve">You may try it without any Sound-board along, but onely
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            Harp wiſe, at one end of the ſtrings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2473" xml:space="preserve">or laſtly, with a double concave, at
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            each end of the ſtrings one.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2475" xml:space="preserve">THere is an apparent diverſity between the Species Viſible and Audible, in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-02" xlink:href="note-0087-02a" xml:space="preserve">224.</note>
            this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2476" xml:space="preserve">That the Viſible doth not mingle in the Medium, but the Audible
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-03" xlink:href="note-0087-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Mixture of
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              Sounds.</note>
            doth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2477" xml:space="preserve">For if we look abroad, we ſee Heaven, a number of Stars, Trees,
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            Hills, Men, Beaſts, at once; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2478" xml:space="preserve">and the Species of the one, doth not confound
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            the other: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2479" xml:space="preserve">But if ſo many Sounds come from ſeveral parts, one of them
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            would utterly confound the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2480" xml:space="preserve">So we ſee, That Voices or Conſorts of
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            Muſick do make a harmony by mixture, which Colours do not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2481" xml:space="preserve">It is true
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            nevertheleſs, that a great light drowno
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            th a ſmaller, that it cannot be ſeen;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2482" xml:space="preserve">as the Sun that of a Gloworm, as well as a great ſound drowneth a leſſer. </s>
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            And I ſuppoſe likewiſe, that if there were two Lanthorns of Glaſs, the
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            one a Crimſio, and the other an Azure, and a Candle within either of
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            them, thoſe coloured lights, would mingle and caſt upon a White Paper, a
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            Purple colour. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2484" xml:space="preserve">And even in colours, they yield a faint and weak mixture; </s>
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            for White Walls make rooms more lightſome, than Black, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2486" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2487" xml:space="preserve">But the
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            cauſe of the Confuſion in Sounds, and the Inconfuſion in Species Viſible, is,
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            For that the Sight worketh in right Lines, and maketh ſeveral Cones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2488" xml:space="preserve">and
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            ſo there can be no Coincidencein the Eye, or Viſual Point: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2489" xml:space="preserve">But Sounds that
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            move in oblick and arcuate Lines, muſt needs encounter, and diſturb the one
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            the other.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2491" xml:space="preserve">The ſweeteſt and beſt Harmony is, when every Part or Inſtrument is
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-04" xlink:href="note-0087-04a" xml:space="preserve">225.</note>
            not heard by it ſelf, but a conflation of them all, which requireth to ſtand
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            ſome diſtance off. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2492" xml:space="preserve">Even as it is in the mixture of perfumes, or the taking of
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            the ſmells of ſeveral Flowers in the Air.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2494" xml:space="preserve">The diſpoſition of the Air, in other qualities, except it be joyned with
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0087-05" xlink:href="note-0087-05a" xml:space="preserve">226.</note>
            Sound, hath no great operation upon Sounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2495" xml:space="preserve">For whether the Air be
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            lightſome or dark, hot or cold, quiet or ſtirring, (except it be with noiſ
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            e)
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            ſweet ſmelling, or ſtinking, or the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2496" xml:space="preserve">it importeth not much. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2497" xml:space="preserve">Some petty
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            alteration or difference it may make.</s>
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