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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head35" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head36" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century IV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3036" xml:space="preserve">ACceleration of Time, in Works of Nature, may well be
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0101-01" xlink:href="note-0101-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Clariſication of
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              Liquors, and
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              the Accelara-
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              ting thereof.</note>
            eſteemed Inter Magnalia Natura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3037" xml:space="preserve">And even in Divine
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            Miracles Accelerating of the Time, is next to the Creating
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            of the Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3038" xml:space="preserve">We will now therefore proceed to the
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            enquiry of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3039" xml:space="preserve">and for Acceleration of Germination, we
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            will refer it over unto the place, where we ſhall handle
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            the Subject of Plants, generally; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3040" xml:space="preserve">and will now begin with
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            other Accelerations.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3042" xml:space="preserve">Liquors are (many of them) at the firſt, thick and troubled; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3043" xml:space="preserve">As Muſt,
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            Wort, Fuyce of Fruits, or Herbs expreſſed, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3044" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3045" xml:space="preserve">And by Time, they ſettle and
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            clarifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3046" xml:space="preserve">But to make them clear, before the Time, is a great work; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3047" xml:space="preserve">for it is a
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            Spur to Nature, and putteth her out of her pace: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3048" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, it is of good
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            uſe for making Drinks, and Sauces, Potable, and Serviceable, ſpeedily.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3049" xml:space="preserve">But to know the Means of Accelerating Clarification, we muſt firſt know
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            the cauſes of Clarification. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3050" xml:space="preserve">The firſt cauſe is, by the Separation of the
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            groſſer parts of the Liquor, from the finer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3051" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, by the equal diſtri-
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            bution of the Spirits of the Liquor, with the tangible parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3052" xml:space="preserve">for that ever re-
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            preſenteth Bodies clear and untroubled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3053" xml:space="preserve">The third, by the refining the
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            Spirit it ſelf, which thereby giveth to the Liquor more ſplendor, and more
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            luſtre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3055" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, For Separation: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3056" xml:space="preserve">It is wrought by weight; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3057" xml:space="preserve">as in the ordinary
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            reſidence or ſettlement of Liquors. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3058" xml:space="preserve">By Heat, by Motion, by Precipitation, or
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            Sublimation, (that is, a calling of the ſeveral parts, either up or down, which
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            is a kinde of Attraction,) by Adheſion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3059" xml:space="preserve">as when a Body, more viſcous, is
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            mingled and agitated with the Liquor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3060" xml:space="preserve">which vifcous Body (afterwards </s>
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