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-head27" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head28" xml:space="preserve">Century I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">DIg a Pit upon the Sea-ſhore, ſomewhat above the
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            High-water Mark, and ſink it as deep as the Low-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0035-02" xlink:href="note-0035-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Straining and
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              Paſsing of Bo-
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              dies one thorow
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              another; which
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              they call Per.
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              colation.</note>
            water Mark; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">And as the Tide cometh in, it will fill
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            with Water, Freſh and Potable. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">This is common-
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            ly
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            practiſed upon the Coaſt of Barbary, where other
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            Freſh Water is wanting. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">And Caſar knew this well,
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            when he was beſieged in Alexandria; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">for by digging
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            of Pits in the Sea-ſhore, he did fruſtrate the labori-
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            ous Works of the Enemies, which had turned the
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            Sea-water upon the Wells of Alexandria, and ſo ſaved his Army, being
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            then in Deſperation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">But Caſar miſtook the cauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">for he thought that all
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            Sea-ſands had Natural Springs of Freſh-water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">But it is plain, that it is the
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            Sea-water, becauſe the Pit filleth according to the Meaſure of the Tide:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s488" xml:space="preserve">And the Sea-water paſſing or ſtraining through the Sands, leaveth the
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            Saltneſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">I remember to have read, that Tryal hath been made of Salt-water
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            paſſed through Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">through ten Veſſels, one within another, and yet it
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            hath not loſt his Saltneſs, as to become potable: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s492" xml:space="preserve">But the ſame Man ſaith, that
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            (by the relation of another Salt-water drained through twenty Veſſels,
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            hath become freſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment ſeemeth to croſs that other of Pits,
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            made by the Sea-ſide; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s494" xml:space="preserve">and yet but in part, if it be true, that twenty Repeti-
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            tions do the effect. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s495" xml:space="preserve">But it is worth the note, how poor the Imitations of
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            Nature are, in common courſe of Experiments, except they be led by great
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            Judgment, and ſome good Light of Axioms. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s496" xml:space="preserve">For firſt, there is no ſmall
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            difference between a Paſſage of Water through twenty ſmall Veſſels, and
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            through ſuch a diſtance, as between the Low-water and High-water Mark.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s497" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, there is a great difference between Earth and Sand; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s498" xml:space="preserve">for all Earth
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            hath in it a kin @e of Nitrous Salt, from which, Sand is more free: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s499" xml:space="preserve">And
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            beſides, Earth doth not ſtrain the Water ſo finely as Sand doth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s500" xml:space="preserve">But there
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            is a third point, that I ſuſpect as much, or more than the other two; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s501" xml:space="preserve">and
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            that is, that in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Sea-water into the Pits,
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            the Water riſeth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s502" xml:space="preserve">but in the Experiment of Tranſmiſsion of the Water, through
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            the Veſſels, it falleth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s503" xml:space="preserve">Now certain it is, that the Salter part of Water </s>
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