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

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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2828" xml:space="preserve">It was deviſed, That a Vial ſhould have a Lay of Wire-ſtrings below,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-01" xlink:href="note-0096-01a" xml:space="preserve">280</note>
            as cloſe to the Belly as a Lute, and then the Strings of Guts mounted upon
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            a Bridge, as in ordinary Vials; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2829" xml:space="preserve">to the end, that by this means, the upper
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            Strings ſtrucken, ſhould make the lower reſound by Sympathy, and ſo make
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            the Muſick the better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2830" xml:space="preserve">which, if it be to purpoſe, than Sympathy worketh as
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            well by report of Sound, as by Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2831" xml:space="preserve">But this device, I conceive, to be
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            of no uſe, becauſe the upper Strings which are ſtopped in great variety, can-
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            not maintain a Diapaſon or a Vniſon with the lower, which are never ſtopped,
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            But if it ſhould be of uſe at all, it muſt be in Inſtruments which have no ſtops,
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            as Virginals and Harps; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2832" xml:space="preserve">wherein tryal may be made of two rows of Strings,
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            diſtant the one from the other.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2833" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2834" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment of Sympathy may be transferred (perhaps) from In-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-02" xlink:href="note-0096-02a" xml:space="preserve">281.</note>
            ſtruments of Strings, to other Inſtruments of Sound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2835" xml:space="preserve">Astotry, if there were
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            in one Steeple two Bells of Uniſon, whether the ſtriking of the one would
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            move the other, more than if it were another accord: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2836" xml:space="preserve">And ſo in Pipes, if they
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            be of equalbore and ſound,) whether a little Straw or Feather would move
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            in the one Pipe, when the other is blown at an Vniſon.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2838" xml:space="preserve">It ſeemeth both in Ear and Eye, the Inſtrument of Senſe hath a Sympathy
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-03" xlink:href="note-0096-03a" xml:space="preserve">282.</note>
            or Similitude with that which giveth the Reſlexion (as hath been touched be-
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            fore.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2839" xml:space="preserve">For as the ſight of the Eye is like a Chryſtal, or Glaſs, or Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2840" xml:space="preserve">ſo is
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            the Ear a ſinuous Cave with a hard Bone, to ſtop and reverberate the Sound:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2841" xml:space="preserve">Which is like to the places that report Eccho’s.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2843" xml:space="preserve">WHen a Man yawneth, he cannot hear ſo well. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2844" xml:space="preserve">The cauſeis, ſor that the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-04" xlink:href="note-0096-04a" xml:space="preserve">283.</note>
            Membrane of the Ear is extended; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2845" xml:space="preserve">and ſo rather caſteth oſſ the Sound,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-05" xlink:href="note-0096-05a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Hindring or
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              Helping of the
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              Hearing.</note>
            than draweth it to.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2847" xml:space="preserve">We Hear better when we hold our Breath, than contrary, inſomuch, as
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            in all liſtening to attain a Sound a ſar off, Men hold their Breath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2848" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-06" xlink:href="note-0096-06a" xml:space="preserve">284.</note>
            is, for that in all Expiration, the motion is outwards, and thereſore rather
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            driveth away the voice than draweth it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2849" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, we ſee that in all labor
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            to do things with any ſtrength, we hold the Breath; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2850" xml:space="preserve">and liſtening after any
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            Sound that is heard with difficulty, is a kinde of labor.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2852" xml:space="preserve">Let it betryed, for the help of the Hearing, (and I conceive it likely to
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-07" xlink:href="note-0096-07a" xml:space="preserve">285.</note>
            ſucceed) to make an Inſtrument like a Tunnel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2853" xml:space="preserve">the narrow part whereof
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            may be of the bigneſs of the hold of the Ear; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2854" xml:space="preserve">and the broader end much
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            larger; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2855" xml:space="preserve">like a Bell at theskirts, and the length half a foot or more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2856" xml:space="preserve">And let
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            the narrow end of it be ſet cloſe to the Ear. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2857" xml:space="preserve">And mark whether any Sound
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            abroad in the open Air, will not be heard diſtinctly, from further diſtance,
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            than without that Inſtrument; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2858" xml:space="preserve">being (as it Were) an Ear ſpectacle. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2859" xml:space="preserve">And I have
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            heard there is in Spain, an Inſtrument in uſe to be ſet to the Ear, that helpeth
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            ſomewhat thoſe that are Thick of Hearing.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2861" xml:space="preserve">If the Mouth be ſhut cloſe, nevertheleſs there is yielded by the Roof
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0096-08" xlink:href="note-0096-08a" xml:space="preserve">286.</note>
            of the Mouth, a Murmur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2862" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as is uſed by Dumb men: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2863" xml:space="preserve">Butif the Noſtrils
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            be like wiſe ſtopped, no ſuch Murmur can be made, except it be in the bottom
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            of the Pallate to Wards the Throat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2864" xml:space="preserve">Where by it appeareth manifeſtly, that a
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            Sound in the Mouth, except ſuch as aforeſaid, if the Mouth be ſtopped,
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            paſſeth from the Pallate through the Noſtrils.</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">287.</note>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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          in Conſort,
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          touching the
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          Spiritual and
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          Fine Nature
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          of Sounds.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2866" xml:space="preserve">THe Repercußion of Sounds, (which we call Eccho) is a great Argument
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            of the Spiritual Eſſence of Sounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2867" xml:space="preserve">For if it were Corporeal, the Reper-
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            cuſſing ſhould be created in the ſame manner, and by like Inſtruments, </s>
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