Alberti, Leone Battista
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Architecture
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1755
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with, but when Neceſſity or Opportunity will
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allow of it to be deſired above all Things.
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>That Region therefore is to be choſen, which
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is moſt free from the Power of Clouds and all
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other heavy thick Vapours. </
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>Thoſe who ap
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ply themſelves to theſe Enquiries have obſerv
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ed, that the Rays and Heat of the Sun act
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with more Violence upon cloſe denſe Bodies,
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than upon thoſe of a looſer Contexture, upon
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Oil more than Water, Iron more than Wool;
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for which Reaſon they ſay the Air is moſt
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groſs and heavy in thoſe Places, which are moſt
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ſubject to great Heats. </
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Ægyptians
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con
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tending for Nobility with all the other Nati
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ons in the World, boaſted, that the firſt Men
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were created in their Country, becauſe no
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Place was ſo fit to plant the firſt Race of Men
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in, as there, where they might live the moſt
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healthily; and that they were bleſſed by the
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Gods with a Kind of perpetual Spring, and a
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cónſtant unchangeable Diſpoſition of Air above
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all the Reſt of the Word. </
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Herodotus
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writes, that among the
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Ægyptians,
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thoſe chief
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ly who lived towards
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Libia,
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are the moſt
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healthy, becauſe they enjoy continual gentle
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Breezes. </
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Cities, both in
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Italy
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and in other Parts of the
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World, are perpetually unhealthy and peſti
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lential, ſeems plainly to be the ſudden Turns
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and Changes in the Air, from Hot to Cold,
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and from Cold to Hot. </
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concerns us to be extremely careful in our Ob
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ſervation, what and how much Sun the Regi
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on we pitch upon is expoſed to; that there be
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neither more Sun nor more Shade than is ne
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ceſſary. </
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Garamantes
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curſe the Sun, both
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at it's Riſing and it's Setting, becauſe they are
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ſcorched with the long Continuation of it's
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Beams. </
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living in a Kind of perpetual Night. </
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theſe Things happen not ſo much, becauſe ſuch
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Places have the Pole more depreſſed or oblique,
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tho there is a great deal in that too, as becauſe
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they are aptly ſituated for receiving the Sun and
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Winds, or are skreened from them. </
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chuſe ſoft Breezes before Winds, but even
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Winds, though violent and bluſtering, before a
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Calm, motionleſs, and conſequently, a heavy
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Air. </
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Ovid,
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corrupts, if not mov
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ed: And it is certain the Air, to uſe ſuch an
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Expreſſion, wonderfully exhilerated by Moti
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on: For I am perſuaded, that thereby the Va
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pours which riſe from the Earth are either diſ
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ſipated, or elſe growing warm by Action are
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concocted as they ſhould be. </
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would have theſe Winds come to me, broken
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by the Oppoſition of Hills and Woods, or tir
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ed with a long Journey. </
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that they did not bring any ill Qualities along
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with them, gathered from any Places they
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paſſed through. </
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ſhould be careſul to avoid all Neighbourhoods
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from which any noxious Particles may be
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brought: In the Number of which are all ill
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Smells, and all groſs Exhalations from Marſhes,
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and eſpecially from ſtagnating Waters and
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Ditches. </
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tain, that all Rivers that uſe to be ſupplied by
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Snows, bring cold ſoggy Winds: But no Water
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is ſo noiſome and pernicious, as that which
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rots and putri
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ies for want of Motion. </
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the Contagion of ſuch a Neighbourhood will
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be ſtill more miſchievous, according as it is
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more or leſs expoſed to unwholeſome Winds:
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For we are told, that the very Winds them
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ſelves are in their own Natures ſome more
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wholeſome than others. </
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Pliny
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from
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Theophraſtus
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and
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Hippocrates
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informs us, that
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the
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North
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is the beſt for reſtoring and preſerv
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ing of Health; and all the Naturaliſts affirm,
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that the
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South
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is the moſt noxious of all to
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Mankind; nay further, that the very Beaſts
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may not ſafely be left in the Fields while that
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Wind blows; and they have obſerved, that at
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ſuch Times the Stork never flies, and that the
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Dolphins in a
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North
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Wind, if it ſtands fair to
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wards them, can hear any Voice, but in a
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South,
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they are more ſlow in hearing it, and
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muſt have it brought to them oppoſite to the
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Wind. </
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North
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Wind
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an Eel will live ſix Days out of Water, but
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not ſo in a
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South,
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ſuch is the Groſſneſs and un
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wholeſome Property of that Wind; and that
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as the
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South
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Wind brings Catarrhs and Rheums,
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ſo the
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North-Weſt
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is apt to give Coughs. </
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likewiſe find Fault with the Neighbourhood of
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the
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Mediterranean,
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upon this Account chiefly,
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becauſe they ſuppoſe, that a Place expoſed to
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the Reflection of the Sun's Rays, does in ef
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fect ſuffer two Suns, one ſcorching them from
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the Heavens, and the other from the Water;
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and ſuch Places upon the Setting of the Sun
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feel the greateſt and moſt ſenſible Alrerations
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in the Air when the cold Shadows of Night
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come on. </
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the
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Weſtern
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Reverberations or Reflections of
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the Sun, either from the Sea or any other
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Water, or from the Mountains, moleſt us moſt </
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