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

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            comprcſſion of parts then it hat of it ſelf, and therefore needeth more force
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            to be put in motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6943" xml:space="preserve">For if a weighty Body be penſile, and hang but by a
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            thred, the percuſſion will make an impulſion very near as eaſily as iſ it were
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            already in motion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6945" xml:space="preserve">A Body-over-great or over-ſmall, will not be thrown ſo far as a Body of
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            a middle ſize; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6946" xml:space="preserve">ſo that (it ſeemeth) there muſt be a commenſuration or pro-
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            portion bet ween the Body moved, and the force, to make it move well. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6947" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, becauſe to the Impulſion there is requiſite the force of the Bo dy
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            that moveth, and the reſiſtance of the Body that is moved; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6948" xml:space="preserve">and if the
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            Body be too great, it yieldeth too little; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6949" xml:space="preserve">and if it be too ſmall, it reſiſterh
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            too little.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6951" xml:space="preserve">It is common experience, that no weight will preſs or cut ſo ſtrong be-
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            ing laid upon a Body, as falling or ſtrucken from above. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6952" xml:space="preserve">It may be the Air
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            hath ſome part in furthering the percufſion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6953" xml:space="preserve">But the chief cauſe I take to be,
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            for that the parts of the Body moved, have by impulſion, or by the motion
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            of gravity continued, a compreſſion in them as well downwards, as they have
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            when they are thrown or ſhot through the Air ſorwards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6954" xml:space="preserve">I conceive alſo,
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            that the quick looſe of that motion preventeth the reſiſtance of the Body be-
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            low; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6955" xml:space="preserve">and priority of the force (always) is of great efficacy, as appeareth in
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            infinite inſtances.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6957" xml:space="preserve">TIckling is moſt in the Soles of the Feet, and under the Arm-holes, and
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            on the Sides. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6958" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the thinneſs of the Skin in thoſe parts, joyned
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-04" xlink:href="note-0195-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching
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              Titillation.</note>
            with the rareneſs of being touched there; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6959" xml:space="preserve">for all Tickling is a light motion
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            of the Spirits, which the thinneſs of the Skin, and ſuddenneſs and rareneſs
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            of touch do further: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6960" xml:space="preserve">For we ſee a Feather or a Ruſh drawn along the Lip
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            or Cheek, doth tickle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6961" xml:space="preserve">whereas a thing more obtuſe, or a touch more
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            hard, doth not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6962" xml:space="preserve">And for ſuddenneſs, we ſee no man can ticklehimſelf: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6963" xml:space="preserve">We
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            ſee alſo, that the Palm of the Hand, though it hath as thin a Skin as the other
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            parts mentioned, yet is not tickliſh, becauſe it is accuſtomed to betouched.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6964" xml:space="preserve">Tickling alſo cauſeth Laughter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6965" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be the emiſſion of the Spirits,
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            and ſo of the Breath, by a flight from Titillation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6966" xml:space="preserve">for upon Tickling, we
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            ſee there is ever a ſtarting or ſhrinking away of the part to avoid it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6967" xml:space="preserve">and
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            we ſee alſo, that if you tickle the Noſtrils with a Feather or Straw, it
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            procureth Sneezing, which is a ſudden emiſſion of the Spirits, that do
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            like wiſe expel the moiſture. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6968" xml:space="preserve">And Tickling is ever painſul, and not well
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            endured.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6970" xml:space="preserve">IT is ſtrange, that the River of Nilus overflowing, as it doth the Countrey
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            of Egypt, there ſhould be nevertheleſs little or no Rain in that Countrey.
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            </s>
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Scarcity of
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              Rain in
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              Egypt.</note>
            The cauſe muſt be, either in the Nature of the Water, or in the Nature
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            of the Air, or of both. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6972" xml:space="preserve">In the Water, it may be aſcribed either tinto
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            the long race of the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6973" xml:space="preserve">for ſwiſt-running Waters vapor not ſo much
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            as ſtanding Waters, or elſe to the concoction of the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6974" xml:space="preserve">for Waters well
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            concocted, vapor not ſo much as Waters raw, no more then Waters upon
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            the fire do vapor ſo much, after ſome time of boyling, as at the firſt.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6975" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that the Water of Nilus is ſweeter then other Waters in taſte; </s>
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            and it is excellent good for the Stone, and Hypochondriacal Melancholy,
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            which ſheweth it is lenifying; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6977" xml:space="preserve">and it runneth through a Countrey of a
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            hot Climate, and flat, without ſhade either of Woods or Hills, whereby
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            the Sun muſt needs have great power to concoct ir. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6978" xml:space="preserve">As for the Air (from
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            whence I conceive this want of Showers cometh chiefly) the cauſe muſt </s>
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