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

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            and Living Creatures, they will. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s796" xml:space="preserve">It is no marvel there fore, that a ſmall Quan-
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            tity of Spirits, in the Cells of the Brain, and Cannals of the Sinews, are able
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            to move a whole Body (which is of ſo great maſs) both with ſo great force,
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            as in Wreſtling, Leaping; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s797" xml:space="preserve">and with ſo great ſwiftneſs, as in playing Diviſi-
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            on upon the Lute: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s798" xml:space="preserve">Such is the force of theſe two Natures, Air and Flame
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            when they incorporate.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s800" xml:space="preserve">TAke a ſmall Wax-Candle, and put it in a Socket of Braſs or Iron, then
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-01" xlink:href="note-0043-01a" xml:space="preserve">31.</note>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-02" xlink:href="note-0043-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Secret Nature
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              of Flame.</note>
            ſet it upright in a Porringer full of Spirit of Wine, heated; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s801" xml:space="preserve">then ſet
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            both the Candle, and Spirit of Wine on fire, and you ſhall ſee the flame of
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            the Candle open it ſelf, and be
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            come four or five times bigger then other-
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            wiſe it would have been, and appear in figure Globular, and not in Pyramis.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s802" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall ſee alſo, that the inward flame of the Candle keepeth colour, and
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            doth not wax any whit blew to wards the colour of the outward flame of
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            the Spirit of Wine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s803" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble inſtance, wherein two things are moſt
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            remarkable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s804" xml:space="preserve">the one, that one flame within another quencheth not, but is
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            a fixed Body, and continueth as Air or Water do; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s805" xml:space="preserve">and therefore flame would
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            ſtill aſcend upwards in one greatneſs, if it were not quenched on the ſides; </s>
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            and the greater the flame is at the bottom, the higher is the riſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s807" xml:space="preserve">The other,
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            that Flame doth not mingle with Flame, as Air doth with Air, or Water
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            with Water, but onely remaineth contiguous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s808" xml:space="preserve">as it cometh to paſs be-
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            twixt Conſiſting Bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s809" xml:space="preserve">It appeareth alſo, that the form of a Pyramis in
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            Flame, which we uſually ſee, is meerly by accident, and that the Air about,
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            by quenching the ſides of the Flame, cruſheth it, and extenuateth it into
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            that form; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s810" xml:space="preserve">for of it ſelf, it would be round: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s811" xml:space="preserve">And thereſore Smoak is in
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            the figure of a Pyramis reverſed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s812" xml:space="preserve">for the Air quencheth the Flame, and re-
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            ceiveth the Smoak. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s813" xml:space="preserve">Note alſo, that the flame of the Candle, within the
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            flame of the Spirit of Wine, is troubled, and doth not onely open and move
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            upwards, but moveth waving, and to and fro: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s814" xml:space="preserve">As if Flame of his own Na-
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            ture (if it were not quenched) would roul and turn as well as move up-
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            wards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s815" xml:space="preserve">By all which it ſhould ſeem, that the Celeſtial Bodies (moſt of them)
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            are true Fires or Flames, as the Stoicks held; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s816" xml:space="preserve">more ſine (perhaps) and rari-
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            fied, than our flame is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s817" xml:space="preserve">For they are all Globular and Deternate, they have
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            Rotation, and they have the colour andſplendor of Flame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s818" xml:space="preserve">So that Flame
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            above, is durable and conſiſtent, and in his natural place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s819" xml:space="preserve">but with us, it
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            is a ſtranger, and momentany and impure, like Vulean that halted with his
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            fall.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s821" xml:space="preserve">TAke an Arrovv, and hold it in Flame for the ſpace of ten Pulſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s822" xml:space="preserve">and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-03" xlink:href="note-0043-03a" xml:space="preserve">32.</note>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0043-04" xlink:href="note-0043-04a" xml:space="preserve">Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              Different force
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              of Flame in the
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              midſt, and on
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              the ſides.</note>
            when it cometh forth, you ſhall finde thoſe parts of the Arrow which
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            were one the outſides of the Flame, more burned, blacked, and turned al-
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            moſtinto a Coal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s823" xml:space="preserve">whereas that in the midſt of the flame, will be as if the
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            fire had ſcarce touched it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s824" xml:space="preserve">This is an inſtance of great conſequence for the
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            diſcovery of the nature of Flame, and ſheweth manifeſtly, that Flame burn-
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            eth more violently to wards the ſides, then in the midſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s825" xml:space="preserve">And, which is
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            more, that Heat or Fire is not violent or furious, but where it is checked and
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            pent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s826" xml:space="preserve">And therefore the Peripateticks (howſoever their opinion of an Ele-
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            ment of Fire, above the Air, is juſtly exploded) in that point they acquit
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            themſelves well: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s827" xml:space="preserve">For being oppoſed, that if there were a ſphere of Fire,
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            that incompaſſEd the Earth ſo near hand, it were impoſſible, but all things
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            ſhould be burnt up; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s828" xml:space="preserve">they anſwer, that the pure Elemental Fire, in his own
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            place, and notirritate, is but of a moderate heat.</s>
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