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.

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[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.

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[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.

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[5.] TO THE READER

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[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.

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[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.

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[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.

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[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,

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[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.

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[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.

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[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.

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[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.

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[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.

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[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.

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[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.

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[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.

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[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.

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[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.

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[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.

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12The TABLE.11
Of Communication of Sounds. Exp. 3 # ibid.
Of Equality and Inequality of Sounds. Exp. 9 # ibid.
Of more Treble and Baſe Tones. Exp. 6. # pag. 43
Of proportion of Treble and Baſe. Exp. 4 # pag. 44
of Exteriour, Interiour Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 45
Of Articulation of Sounds. Exp. 9. # pag. 46

Century III.

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OF the Lines in which Sounds move. Exp. 6 # pag. 49
Of the Læſting or Periſhing of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 50
Of the Paſſage in Interception of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 51
Of the Medium of Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 52
Of the Figures of Bodies yielding Sounds. Exp. 3 # ibid.
Of Mixture of Sounds. Exp. 5. # pag. 53
of Melioration of Sounds. Exp. 7 # pag. 54
of Imitation of Sounds. Exp. 6 # pag. 55
of Reflexion of Sounds. Exp. 13 # pag. 56
of Conſent and Dißent between Audibles, and Viſibles. Exp. 23 # pag. 58
Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Sounds. Exp. 5 # pag. 61
of Hindring or Helping of Hearing. Exp. 4 # pag. 62
of the Spiritual and Fine Nature of Sounds. Exp. 4 # pag. 63
of Orient Colours in Diſſolutions of Metals. Exp. 1 # pag. 64
of Prolongation of Life. Exp. 1 # pag. 64
of the Appetite of Union in Bodies. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of the like Operations of Heat and Time. Exp. 1 # pag. 65
of the Differing operations of Fire and Time. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Motions by Imitation. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Infections Diſeaſes. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of the Incorporations of Powders, and Liquors. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Exerciſe of the Body, and the Benefits or Evils thereof. Exp. 1 # pag. 66
of Meats ſome Glutting, or not Glutting. Exp. 1 # ibid.

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OF Clarification of Liquors, and the Acclerating thereof. Exp. 11 # pag. 67
of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of the Maturation of Drinks,
# and Fruits. Exp. 15. # pag. 69
of Making Gold. Exp. 1 # pag. 71
of the Several Natures of Gold. Exp. 1 # pag. 73
of Inducing and Accelerating Putrefaction. Exp. 12 # ibid.
of Prohibiting and Preventing Putrefaction. Exp. 1. # pag. 75
of Rotten Wood ſhining. Exp. 1 # pag. 77
of Acceleration of Birth. Exp. 1 # pag. 78
of Acceleration of Growth and Stature. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Bodies Sulphureous and Mercurial. Exp. 5 # ibid.
of the Chamcleon. Exp. 1 # pag. 80
of subterrany Fires. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Nitrous Water. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Congealing of Air. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of Congealing of Water into Cryſtal. Exp. 1 # pag. 81
Of Preſerving the Smell and Colour in Roſe-Leaves. Exp. 1 # ibid.
of the Laſting of Flame. Exp. 10 # ibid.
of Infuſions or Burials of divers Bodies in Earth. Exp. 5 # pag. 83
of the Affects of Mens Bodies from ſeveral Winds. Exp. 1 # pag. 84
Of winter and Summer Sickneſſes. Exp. 1 # ibid.

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