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

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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            and not plain things VVonders; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s49" xml:space="preserve">and that experience like-
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            wiſe muſt be broken and grinded, and not whole, or as it
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            groweth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s50" xml:space="preserve">and for Uſe, his Lordſhip hath often in his
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            Mouth, the two kindes of Experiments, Experi-
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            menta Fructifera, and Experimenta Lucifera.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s51" xml:space="preserve">Experiments of Uſe, and Experiments of
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            Light: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s52" xml:space="preserve">And he reporteth himſelf, whether he were not
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            a ſtrange Man, that ſhould think, that Light hath no Uſe,
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            becauſe it hath no Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s53" xml:space="preserve">Further his Lordſhip thought
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            good alſo, to add unto many of the Experiments them-
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            ſelves, ſome gloſs of the Cauſes, that in the ſucceeding
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            work of Interpreting Nature, and Framing Axi-
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            oms, all things may be in more readineß. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s54" xml:space="preserve">And for the
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            Cauſes herein by him aßigned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s55" xml:space="preserve">his Lordſhip perſwadeth
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            himſelf, they are far more certain, than thoſe that are ren-
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            dred by others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s56" xml:space="preserve">not for any excellency of his own wit, (as
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            his Lordſhip is wont to ſay) but in reſpect of his continual
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            converſation with Nature and Experience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s57" xml:space="preserve">He did
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            conſider likewiſe, That by this Addition of Cauſes,
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            Mens mindes (which make ſo much haſte to finde out the
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            cauſes of things;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s58" xml:space="preserve">would not think themſelves utterly loſt
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            in a vaſt Wood of Experience, but ſtay upon theſe
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            Cauſes (ſuch as they are) a little, till true Axioms
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            may be more fully diſcovered. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s59" xml:space="preserve">I have heard his Lordſhip
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            ſay alſo, That one great reaſon, why he would not put theſe
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            Particulars into any exact Method, (though he, that look-
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            eth attentively into them, ſhall finde, that they have a ſe-
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            cret order) was, Becauſe he conceived that other men would
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            now think that they could do the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s60" xml:space="preserve">and ſo go on with a
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            further Collection, which, if the Method had been exact,
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            many would have deſpaired to attain by Imitation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s61" xml:space="preserve">As
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            for his Lordſhips love of Order, I can refer any Man to
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            his Lordſhips Latin Book, De Augmentis Scien-
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            tiarum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s62" xml:space="preserve">which, if my judgment be any thing, is written </s>
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